VacationSelector

Sao Paulo or Toronto?

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, 2 points apart

Sao Paulo
56
match

Wins on year-round weather and value for money with your weighting.

Toronto
54
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 PauloToronto
Beaches & swimming. Toronto leads by 43 points.43
Sao PauloToronto
Score043
Swim season months01
Beaches 10 km058
Coast distance51 km533 km
Water distance5 km
Places to eat. Toronto leads by 9 points.9
Sao PauloToronto
Score7382
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,7352,133
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2739
Museums & heritage. Sao Paulo and Toronto are level on 43.
Sao PauloToronto
Score4343
Museums within 10 km8235
Museums within 2 km of centre2625
Share of museums within 2 km %3271
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Sao Paulo leads by 3 points.3
Sao PauloToronto
Score7269
Drinking venues within 4 km1,7471,500
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre896966
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5164
Nightclubs within 4 km118103
Nature & day trips. Sao Paulo leads by 25 points.25
Sao PauloToronto
Score5126
Protected land share 50 km %262
Landscape blanket share 50 km %150
Land share of disc %95100
Park area within 2 km52 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Toronto leads by 2 points.2
Sao PauloToronto
Score5557
Tourist attractions within 2 km3823
Park area within 2 km52 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Toronto leads by 11 points.11
Sao PauloToronto
Score5061
Notable places within 2 km68128
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sao Paulo leads by 27 points.27
Sao PauloToronto
Score8154
Price level global46.184
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Sao Paulo leads by 28 points.28
Sao PauloToronto
Score8355
Monthly daytime high22.8 °C to 29.2 °C-0.2 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall26 mm to 297 mm51 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
Toronto
0
0
5
12
19
24
27
26
22
15
8
2
Sea temperature, °C
Sao Paulo
No coastline within reach
Toronto
4
3
3
4
7
15
20
21
19
13
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Sao Paulo
297
259
206
89
64
55
53
26
82
128
146
234
Toronto
62
58
51
74
58
85
83
69
62
75
65
66
Daylight, hours per day
Sao Paulo
13
13
12
12
11
11
11
11
12
13
13
14
Toronto
9
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
Toronto
No sunshine record

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). Toronto: 1991-2020 normals, Toronto City (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSao PauloToronto
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 40 m
€576-611
GRU · 21 km
1 h 20 m
€244-359
YYZ · 20 km
Punta CanaPUJ
6 h 50 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
4 h 10 m
€500-667
2 stops
YYZ · 20 km
Rio de JaneiroGIG, SDU, RRJ
1 h 5 m
€190-227
GRU · 21 km
10 h 25 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
10 h 15 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
1 h 15 m
€143-160
YYZ · 20 km
Buenos AiresEZE, AEP
2 h 40 m
€281-355
GRU · 21 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
9 h 40 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
1 h 20 m
€183-189
YYZ · 20 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
10 h 35 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
1 h 30 m
€185-501
YYZ · 20 km
MadridMAD
10 h 30 m
€739-741
GRU · 21 km
7 h 50 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
21 h 20 m
€1,139-1567
2 stops
GRU · 21 km
13 h 5 m
€1,024-1087
2 stops
YYZ · 20 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
15 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
13 h 40 m
€717-891
YYZ · 20 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 PauloToronto
Official languagePortugueseFrench, English
CurrencyBrazilian Real (BRL)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCN60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 190, ambulance 192, fire 193911
Elevation760 m76 m
Main airportSão Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport (GRU)21 km from centre102 non-stop destinationsToronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)20 km from centre189 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSao PauloToronto
City population11,451,9992,794,356
People per km²7,5194,434
Museums within 10 km9032
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre59102
Swim season, months above 21 °C1 month

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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.