VacationSelector

Sao Paulo or Tromso?

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 nightlife and year-round weather with your weighting.

Tromso
27
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 PauloTromso
Beaches & swimming. Tromso leads by 52 points.52
Sao PauloTromso
Score052
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km014
Coast distance51 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Sao Paulo leads by 49 points.49
Sao PauloTromso
Score7324
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,73585
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2716
Museums & heritage. Sao Paulo leads by 20 points.20
Sao PauloTromso
Score4323
Museums within 10 km8210
Museums within 2 km of centre268
Share of museums within 2 km %3280
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Sao Paulo leads by 65 points.65
Sao PauloTromso
Score727
Drinking venues within 4 km1,74767
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre89661
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5191
Nightclubs within 4 km1185
Nature & day trips. Sao Paulo leads by 40 points.40
Sao PauloTromso
Score5111
Protected land share 50 km %269
Landscape blanket share 50 km %159
Land share of disc %9565
Park area within 2 km52 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Sao Paulo leads by 41 points.41
Sao PauloTromso
Score5514
Tourist attractions within 2 km389
Park area within 2 km52 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Sao Paulo leads by 22 points.22
Sao PauloTromso
Score5028
Notable places within 2 km6820
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sao Paulo leads by 27 points.27
Sao PauloTromso
Score8154
Price level global46.185.1
Daily budget€203
Year-round weather. Sao Paulo leads by 50 points.50
Sao PauloTromso
Score8333
Monthly daytime high22.8 °C to 29.2 °C-1.1 °C to 16.3 °C
Monthly rainfall26 mm to 297 mm56 mm to 128 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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F
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A
M
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J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Sao Paulo
28
29
28
27
24
23
23
25
25
27
27
28
Tromso
-1
-1
1
4
9
13
16
15
11
5
2
0
Sea temperature, °C
Sao Paulo
No coastline within reach
Tromso
5
5
4
4
6
8
10
11
10
9
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Sao Paulo
297
259
206
89
64
55
53
26
82
128
146
234
Tromso
108
95
97
71
56
57
73
90
110
128
94
110
Daylight, hours per day
Sao Paulo
13
13
12
12
11
11
11
11
12
13
13
14
Tromso
2
7
12
16
22
24
24
18
14
9
4
0
Sunshine, hours per day
Sao Paulo
4
6
6
5
5
5
6
6
5
6
5
5
Tromso
0
1
3
6
8
8
8
6
3
2
0
0

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). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSao PauloTromso
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 50 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
12 h 10 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 45 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ZurichZRH
12 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
MadridMAD
10 h 30 m
€739-741
GRU · 21 km
4 h 45 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
AmsterdamAMS
12 h 10 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
MunichMUC
12 h 15 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
3 h 30 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
BarcelonaBCN
11 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
4 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
11 h 50 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 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 PauloTromso
Official languagePortugueseNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyBrazilian Real (BRL)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsCN60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 190, ambulance 192, fire 193Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation760 m20 m
Main airportSão Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport (GRU)21 km from centre102 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureSao PauloTromso
City population11,451,99979,943
People per km²7,51932
Museums within 10 km908
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre5923
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.