VacationSelector

Sao Paulo or Tampa?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Sao Paulo
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on value for money and nightlife with your weighting.

Tampa
44
match

Wins on beaches & swimming with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

Sao PauloTampa
Beaches & swimming. Tampa leads by 75 points.75
Sao PauloTampa
Score075
Swim season months08
Beaches 10 km010
Coast distance51 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Sao Paulo leads by 19 points.19
Sao PauloTampa
Score7354
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,735359
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2731
Museums & heritage. Sao Paulo leads by 16 points.16
Sao PauloTampa
Score4327
Museums within 10 km8213
Museums within 2 km of centre2610
Share of museums within 2 km %3277
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Sao Paulo leads by 33 points.33
Sao PauloTampa
Score7239
Drinking venues within 4 km1,747324
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre896227
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5170
Nightclubs within 4 km11826
Nature & day trips. Sao Paulo leads by 21 points.21
Sao PauloTampa
Score5130
Protected land share 50 km %266
Landscape blanket share 50 km %150
Land share of disc %9572
Park area within 2 km52 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Sao Paulo leads by 25 points.25
Sao PauloTampa
Score5530
Tourist attractions within 2 km383
Park area within 2 km52 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km15
Sights concentration. Sao Paulo leads by 29 points.29
Sao PauloTampa
Score5021
Notable places within 2 km6813
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sao Paulo leads by 38 points.38
Sao PauloTampa
Score8143
Price level global46.1100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Sao Paulo leads by 8 points.8
Sao PauloTampa
Score8375
Monthly daytime high22.8 °C to 29.2 °C21.5 °C to 32.6 °C
Monthly rainfall26 mm to 297 mm36 mm to 228 mm
Dry months11
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Sao Paulo
28
29
28
27
24
23
23
25
25
27
27
28
Tampa
22
23
25
28
31
32
32
33
32
29
26
23
Sea temperature, °C
Sao Paulo
No coastline within reach
Tampa
18
18
20
23
26
28
30
30
29
27
23
20
Rainfall, mm
Sao Paulo
297
259
206
89
64
55
53
26
82
128
146
234
Tampa
66
66
64
64
67
187
197
228
156
60
36
65
Daylight, hours per day
Sao Paulo
13
13
12
12
11
11
11
11
12
13
13
14
Tampa
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Sao Paulo
4
6
6
5
5
5
6
6
5
6
5
5
Tampa
7
7
9
10
11
10
9
10
8
8
7
7

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Sao Paulo: 1991-2020 normals, Sao Paulo (5.9 km from centre). Tampa: 1991-2020 normals, Tampa International Airport (7.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSao PauloTampa
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 40 m
€576-611
GRU · 21 km
2 h 35 m
€178-237
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
Punta CanaPUJ
6 h 50 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
10 h 35 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
2 h 35 m
€176-204
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
10 h 20 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
9 h 40 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
Belo HorizonteCNF, PLU
1 h 15 m
€127-154
GRU · 21 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
RecifeREC
3 h 10 m
€233-252
GRU · 21 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
9 h 30 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
MadridMAD
10 h 30 m
€739-741
GRU · 21 km
8 h 55 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
15 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
15 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-09 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureSao PauloTampa
Official languagePortuguese
CurrencyBrazilian Real (BRL)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCN60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 190, ambulance 192, fire 193911
Elevation760 m30 m
Main airportSão Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport (GRU)21 km from centre102 non-stop destinationsTampa International Airport (TPA)8 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSao PauloTampa
City population11,451,999384,959
People per km²7,519848
Museums within 10 km906
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre5947
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 months

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.