VacationSelector

Sao Paulo or Tirana?

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 places to eat and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Tirana
51
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration 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 PauloTirana
Beaches & swimming. Tirana leads by 17 points.17
Sao PauloTirana
Score017
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km00
Coast distance51 km26 km
Water distance26 km
Places to eat. Sao Paulo leads by 18 points.18
Sao PauloTirana
Score7355
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,735572
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2722
Museums & heritage. Sao Paulo leads by 18 points.18
Sao PauloTirana
Score4325
Museums within 10 km8212
Museums within 2 km of centre268
Share of museums within 2 km %3267
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Sao Paulo leads by 14 points.14
Sao PauloTirana
Score7258
Drinking venues within 4 km1,747945
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre896683
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5172
Nightclubs within 4 km11829
Nature & day trips. Sao Paulo leads by 2 points.2
Sao PauloTirana
Score5149
Protected land share 50 km %2611
Landscape blanket share 50 km %153
Land share of disc %9583
Park area within 2 km52 hectares147 hectares
Good for families. Sao Paulo leads by 3 points.3
Sao PauloTirana
Score5552
Tourist attractions within 2 km3821
Park area within 2 km52 hectares147 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Tirana leads by 3 points.3
Sao PauloTirana
Score5053
Notable places within 2 km6883
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tirana leads by 3 points.3
Sao PauloTirana
Score8184
Price level global46.142.6
Daily budget€76
Year-round weather. Sao Paulo leads by 16 points.16
Sao PauloTirana
Score8367
Monthly daytime high22.8 °C to 29.2 °C11.6 °C to 30.7 °C
Monthly rainfall26 mm to 297 mm43 mm to 172 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
Tirana
12
13
16
19
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Sao Paulo
No coastline within reach
Tirana
15
14
14
16
19
23
24
25
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Sao Paulo
297
259
206
89
64
55
53
26
82
128
146
234
Tirana
143
117
116
103
84
66
43
55
78
114
172
148
Daylight, hours per day
Sao Paulo
13
13
12
12
11
11
11
11
12
13
13
14
Tirana
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Sao Paulo
4
6
6
5
5
5
6
6
5
6
5
5
Tirana
4
4
5
6
9
10
12
11
9
7
4
3

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). Tirana: 1961-1990 normals, Tirana (3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSao PauloTirana
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 45 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
2 h 30 m
€73-102
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
11 h 50 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
1 h 50 m
€33-74
TIA · 13 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 50 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
2 h 55 m
€62-138
TIA · 13 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
13 h 5 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
1 h 35 m
€100-109
TIA · 13 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
12 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
2 h 30 m
€97-142
TIA · 13 km
MadridMAD
10 h 30 m
€739-741
GRU · 21 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
TIA · 13 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
12 h 10 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
2 h 10 m
€94-143
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
BarcelonaBCN
11 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
2 h 25 m
€74-123
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
AmsterdamAMS
12 h 10 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
2 h 35 m
€169-220
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
10 h 20 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
TIA · 13 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 PauloTirana
Official languagePortugueseAlbanian
CurrencyBrazilian Real (BRL)Lek (ALL)
SocketsCN60 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 190, ambulance 192, fire 193112
Elevation760 m110 m
Main airportSão Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport (GRU)21 km from centre102 non-stop destinationsTirana International Airport Mother Teresa (TIA)13 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureSao PauloTirana
City population11,451,999389,323
People per km²7,5199,314
Museums within 10 km9011
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre5946
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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. 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.