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São Paulo Cathedral, Sao Paulo
Sao PauloSão Paulo Cathedral
The top of the Mountaintop Express lift on Vail Mountain, Vail
VailThe top of the Mountaintop Express lift on Vail Mountain

Photos: Sao Paulo by Webysther Nunes, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Vail by DReifGalaxyM31, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Sao Paulo or Vail?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Sao Paulo for

  • prices
  • nightlife
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Sao Paulo’s own page.

Choose Vail for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Vail’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Sao Paulo 42, Vail 5: Sao Paulo leads by 37 points.
Food & drink. Sao Paulo 84, Vail 35: Sao Paulo leads by 49 points.
Culture & sights. Sao Paulo 60, Vail 10: Sao Paulo leads by 50 points.
Nightlife. Sao Paulo 86, Vail 30: Sao Paulo leads by 56 points.
Nature & outdoors. Sao Paulo 48, Vail 92: Vail leads by 44 points.
Day trips. Sao Paulo 47, Vail 45: Sao Paulo leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Sao Paulo 52, Vail 55: Vail leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Sao Paulo 44, Vail 62: Vail leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Sao Paulo 70, Vail 35: Sao Paulo leads by 35 points.
Affordability. Sao Paulo 62, Vail 5: Sao Paulo leads by 57 points.
Live music & performing arts. Sao Paulo 76, Vail 42: Sao Paulo leads by 34 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Sao Paulo 25, Vail 48: Vail leads by 23 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Sao Paulo and Vail.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Sao Paulo
Best match
58match

Wins on prices and nightlife with your weighting.

Vail
39match

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

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Sao Paulo in July

23 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
53 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
11 hdaylight a day

Vail in July

29 °Cdaytime high
9 °Cnight-time low
35 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Vail's temperatures are measured 47 km from the centre, at Kremmling.

Vail's station stands 186 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Vail has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Sao Paulo: 1991-2020 normals, Sao Paulo (5.9 km from centre). Vail: 2006-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Kremmling (46.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSao PauloVail
Official languagePortuguese-
CurrencyBrazilian Real (BRL)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCN60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 190, ambulance 192, fire 193911
Elevation760 m2,445 m
Main airportSão Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport (GRU)21 km from centre104 non-stop destinationsEagle County Regional Airport (EGE)48 km from centre16 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureSao PauloVail
City population11,451,9994,835
People per km²7,519400
Museums within 10 km901
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.