VacationSelector

Sao Paulo or Valletta?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Sao Paulo
56
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Valletta
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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 PauloValletta
Beaches & swimming. Valletta leads by 77 points.77
Sao PauloValletta
Score077
Swim season months06
Beaches 10 km022
Coast distance51 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Sao Paulo leads by 15 points.15
Sao PauloValletta
Score7358
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,735416
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2735
Museums & heritage. Valletta leads by 18 points.18
Sao PauloValletta
Score4361
Museums within 10 km8246
Museums within 2 km of centre2629
Share of museums within 2 km %3263
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Sao Paulo leads by 25 points.25
Sao PauloValletta
Score7247
Drinking venues within 4 km1,747522
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre896250
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5148
Nightclubs within 4 km11827
Nature & day trips. Sao Paulo leads by 5 points.5
Sao PauloValletta
Score5146
Protected land share 50 km %26
Landscape blanket share 50 km %150
Land share of disc %956
Park area within 2 km52 hectares24 hectares
Good for families. Sao Paulo leads by 9 points.9
Sao PauloValletta
Score5546
Tourist attractions within 2 km3832
Park area within 2 km52 hectares24 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Valletta leads by 11 points.11
Sao PauloValletta
Score5061
Notable places within 2 km68133
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sao Paulo leads by 12 points.12
Sao PauloValletta
Score8169
Price level global46.162.8
Daily budget€129
Year-round weather. Sao Paulo leads by 4 points.4
Sao PauloValletta
Score8379
Monthly daytime high22.8 °C to 29.2 °C15.7 °C to 31.9 °C
Monthly rainfall26 mm to 297 mm0 mm to 90 mm
Dry months16
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
Valletta
16
16
17
20
24
29
32
32
29
25
21
17
Sea temperature, °C
Sao Paulo
No coastline within reach
Valletta
16
15
15
16
19
22
25
27
26
24
21
18
Rainfall, mm
Sao Paulo
297
259
206
89
64
55
53
26
82
128
146
234
Valletta
80
72
39
19
10
5
0
10
63
74
90
85
Daylight, hours per day
Sao Paulo
13
13
12
12
11
11
11
11
12
13
13
14
Valletta
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Sao Paulo
4
6
6
5
5
5
6
6
5
6
5
5
Valletta
6
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
6
5

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). Valletta: 1991-2020 normals, Luqa (5.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSao PauloValletta
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 50 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
3 h 10 m
€91-131
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
11 h 45 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
1 h 30 m
€37-71
MLA · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 45 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
2 h 45 m
€99-132
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
11 h 50 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
2 h 5 m
€62-92
MLA · 6 km
MadridMAD
10 h 30 m
€739-741
GRU · 21 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
MunichMUC
12 h 15 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
2 h 20 m
€165-259
MLA · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
12 h 10 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
12 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
2 h 50 m
€83-115
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 40 m
€576-611
GRU · 21 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
15 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
5 h 25 m
no fares
MLA · 6 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 PauloValletta
Official languagePortugueseEnglish, Maltese
CurrencyBrazilian Real (BRL)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCN60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 190, ambulance 192, fire 193112
Elevation760 m56 m
Main airportSão Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport (GRU)21 km from centre102 non-stop destinationsMalta International Airport (MLA)6 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureSao PauloValletta
City population11,451,9996,444
People per km²7,5198,055
Museums within 10 km9015
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre5955
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 months

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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 2026-09-01. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.