VacationSelector

Sao Paulo or Toulouse?

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 nature & day trips and nightlife with your weighting.

Toulouse
48
match

Wins on good for families 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 PauloToulouse
Beaches & swimming. Sao Paulo and Toulouse are level on 0.
Sao PauloToulouse
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km01
Coast distance51 km145 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Sao Paulo leads by 3 points.3
Sao PauloToulouse
Score7370
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,735962
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2737
Museums & heritage. Toulouse leads by 8 points.8
Sao PauloToulouse
Score4351
Museums within 10 km8227
Museums within 2 km of centre2618
Share of museums within 2 km %3267
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Sao Paulo leads by 29 points.29
Sao PauloToulouse
Score7243
Drinking venues within 4 km1,747389
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre896343
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5188
Nightclubs within 4 km11836
Nature & day trips. Sao Paulo leads by 30 points.30
Sao PauloToulouse
Score5121
Protected land share 50 km %261
Landscape blanket share 50 km %150
Land share of disc %95100
Park area within 2 km52 hectares43 hectares
Good for families. Toulouse leads by 11 points.11
Sao PauloToulouse
Score5566
Tourist attractions within 2 km3880
Park area within 2 km52 hectares43 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Toulouse leads by 1 points.1
Sao PauloToulouse
Score5051
Notable places within 2 km6872
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sao Paulo leads by 19 points.19
Sao PauloToulouse
Score8162
Price level global46.173.7
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Sao Paulo leads by 12 points.12
Sao PauloToulouse
Score8371
Monthly daytime high22.8 °C to 29.2 °C9.7 °C to 28.5 °C
Monthly rainfall26 mm to 297 mm37 mm to 74 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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M
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J
A
S
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D
Daytime high, °C
Sao Paulo
28
29
28
27
24
23
23
25
25
27
27
28
Toulouse
10
11
15
18
21
26
28
29
25
20
14
10
Rainfall, mm
Sao Paulo
297
259
206
89
64
55
53
26
82
128
146
234
Toulouse
53
37
45
65
74
64
40
45
46
54
55
49
Daylight, hours per day
Sao Paulo
13
13
12
12
11
11
11
11
12
13
13
14
Toulouse
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
Toulouse
3
4
6
6
7
8
8
8
7
5
3
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). Toulouse: 1991-2020 normals, Toulouse / Blagnac (7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSao PauloToulouse
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 45 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
1 h 25 m
€77-94
TLS · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 50 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
MadridMAD
10 h 30 m
€739-741
GRU · 21 km
1 h 20 m
€120-143
TLS · 7 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
12 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
12 h 10 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
12 h 10 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
MunichMUC
12 h 15 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
LisbonLIS
10 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
1 h 55 m
€109-157
TLS · 7 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
10 h 15 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
7 h 25 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
PortoOPO
10 h 15 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
TLS · 7 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 PauloToulouse
Official languagePortugueseFrench
CurrencyBrazilian Real (BRL)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCN60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 190, ambulance 192, fire 193112
Elevation760 m115 m
Main airportSão Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport (GRU)21 km from centre102 non-stop destinationsToulouse-Blagnac Airport (TLS)7 km from centre80 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSao PauloToulouse
City population11,451,999514,819
People per km²7,5194,352
Museums within 10 km9024
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre59101

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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. 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.