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Sao Paulo or Ubud?

Two destinations compared in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

São Paulo Cathedral, Sao Paulo
Sao Paulo

Photo: Webysther Nunes, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped

Rice terraces and palms at Tegallalang, Ubud
Ubud

Photo: Pinterpandai, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped

Your match

Sao Paulo
✓ Best match
58
match

Wins on nightlife and getting around with your weighting.

Ubud
54
match

Wins on wellness and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Our verdict on each category, scored 0 to 100 against fixed benchmark cities.

Sao PauloUbud
Beaches & swimming. Sao Paulo leads by 2 points.2
Food & drink. Sao Paulo leads by 29 points.29
Culture & sights. Sao Paulo leads by 2 points.2
Nightlife. Sao Paulo leads by 72 points.72
Nature & outdoors. Ubud leads by 28 points.28
Day trips. Ubud leads by 21 points.21
Good for families. Sao Paulo leads by 8 points.8
Getting around. Sao Paulo leads by 34 points.34
Shopping & style. Sao Paulo leads by 20 points.20
Affordability. Ubud leads by 20 points.20
Live music & performing arts. Sao Paulo leads by 21 points.21
Wellness & relaxation. Ubud leads by 71 points.71
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Sao Paulo and Ubud.

When should you go?

Pick the month you can travel and see both cities side by side. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Climate figures for July
JulySao PauloUbud
Daytime high23 °C29 °C
Night-time low13 °C24 °C
Rainfall in the month53 mm27 mm
Sunshine6 hours a day9 hours a day
Sea temperatureNo sea27 °C
Daylight11 hours a day12 hours a day

The whole year

Each row is shaded against that destination’s own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that figure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

J
F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Sao Paulo
28
29
28
27
24
23
23
25
25
27
27
28
Ubud
31
31
31
31
31
30
29
29
30
31
32
31
Sea temperature, °C
Sao Paulo
No coastline within reach
Ubud
29
29
29
29
28
28
27
26
27
27
28
29
Rainfall, mm
Sao Paulo
297
259
206
89
64
55
53
26
82
128
146
234
Ubud
396
289
222
125
76
38
27
12
30
74
132
295
Daylight, hours per day
Sao Paulo
13
13
12
12
11
11
11
11
12
13
13
14
Ubud
13
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
13
Sunshine, hours per day
Sao Paulo
4
6
6
5
5
5
6
6
5
6
5
5
Ubud
7
6
7
8
9
8
9
9
9
9
8
6

Where the figures come from

Ubud's temperatures are measured 29 km from the centre, at Denpasar / Ngurah-Rai.

Ubud's station stands 209 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Sao Paulo: 1991-2020 normals, Sao Paulo (5.9 km from centre). Ubud: 1991-2020 normals, Denpasar / Ngurah-Rai (29 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSao PauloUbud
BeijingPEK, PKX
21 h 20 m
€1,139-1567
2 stops
GRU · 21 km
7 h 5 m
€286-290
1 stop
DPS · 29 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
12 h 10 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
14 h 45 m
€655-1139
1 stop
DPS · 29 km
AmsterdamAMS
12 h 10 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
15 h 0 m
€615-646
DPS · 29 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
13 h 5 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
12 h 50 m
€633-726
DPS · 29 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
15 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
9 h 30 m
€461-573
1 stop
DPS · 29 km
DohaDOH
14 h 35 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
9 h 55 m
€774-911
2 stops
DPS · 29 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 2026-08 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 PauloUbud
Official languagePortugueseIndonesian
CurrencyBrazilian Real (BRL)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsCN60 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+8
Emergency numberPolice 190, ambulance 192, fire 193112
Elevation760 m210 m
Main airportSão Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport (GRU)21 km from centre104 non-stop destinationsDenpasar I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport (DPS)29 km from centre63 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days-

By the numbers

MeasureSao PauloUbud
City population11,451,999-
People per km²7,519-
Museums within 10 km9014
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 months

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Sources

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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate and flight figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-27. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.