VacationSelector

Sao Paulo or The Hague?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Sao Paulo
56
match

Wins on year-round weather and nightlife with your weighting.

The Hague
57
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage 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 PauloThe Hague
Beaches & swimming. The Hague leads by 60 points.60
Sao PauloThe Hague
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km034
Coast distance51 km3 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Sao Paulo leads by 3 points.3
Sao PauloThe Hague
Score7370
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,735798
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2743
Museums & heritage. The Hague leads by 19 points.19
Sao PauloThe Hague
Score4362
Museums within 10 km8246
Museums within 2 km of centre2626
Share of museums within 2 km %3257
Unesco sites within 50 km04
Nightlife. Sao Paulo leads by 26 points.26
Sao PauloThe Hague
Score7246
Drinking venues within 4 km1,747511
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre896288
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5156
Nightclubs within 4 km11819
Nature & day trips. The Hague leads by 3 points.3
Sao PauloThe Hague
Score5154
Protected land share 50 km %268
Landscape blanket share 50 km %150
Land share of disc %9556
Park area within 2 km52 hectares159 hectares
Good for families. The Hague leads by 1 points.1
Sao PauloThe Hague
Score5556
Tourist attractions within 2 km3810
Park area within 2 km52 hectares159 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km17
Sights concentration. The Hague leads by 4 points.4
Sao PauloThe Hague
Score5054
Notable places within 2 km6886
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sao Paulo leads by 23 points.23
Sao PauloThe Hague
Score8158
Price level global46.179.2
Daily budget€181
Year-round weather. Sao Paulo leads by 29 points.29
Sao PauloThe Hague
Score8354
Monthly daytime high22.8 °C to 29.2 °C6.1 °C to 21.3 °C
Monthly rainfall26 mm to 297 mm42 mm to 85 mm
Dry months10
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
The Hague
6
7
9
13
16
19
21
21
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Sao Paulo
No coastline within reach
The Hague
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Sao Paulo
297
259
206
89
64
55
53
26
82
128
146
234
The Hague
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Sao Paulo
13
13
12
12
11
11
11
11
12
13
13
14
The Hague
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Sao Paulo
4
6
6
5
5
5
6
6
5
6
5
5
The Hague
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2

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). The Hague: 1991-2020 normals, Valkenburg (13.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSao PauloThe Hague
MadridMAD
10 h 30 m
€739-741
GRU · 21 km
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 40 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 40 m
€576-611
GRU · 21 km
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 45 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 40 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
15 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
Rio de JaneiroGIG, SDU, RRJ
1 h 5 m
€190-227
GRU · 21 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
Buenos AiresEZE, AEP
2 h 40 m
€281-355
GRU · 21 km
14 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
SantiagoSCL
3 h 45 m
€255-300
GRU · 21 km
14 h 45 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
BogotaBOG
5 h 45 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
11 h 5 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
Punta CanaPUJ
6 h 50 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
21 h 20 m
€1,139-1567
2 stops
GRU · 21 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
AMS · 40 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 PauloThe Hague
Official languagePortugueseDutch
CurrencyBrazilian Real (BRL)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCN60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 190, ambulance 192, fire 193112 or 911
Elevation760 m1 m
Main airportSão Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport (GRU)21 km from centre102 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)16 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSao PauloThe Hague
City population11,451,999548,320
People per km²7,5195,589
Museums within 10 km9054
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Distinct cuisines in the centre5977
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.