VacationSelector

Sao Paulo or Vienna?

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 value for money and year-round weather with your weighting.

Vienna
✓ Best match
59
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration 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 PauloVienna
Beaches & swimming. Sao Paulo and Vienna are level on 0.
Sao PauloVienna
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km022
Coast distance51 km10,000 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Vienna leads by 4 points.4
Sao PauloVienna
Score7377
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,7351,617
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2737
Museums & heritage. Vienna leads by 38 points.38
Sao PauloVienna
Score4381
Museums within 10 km82192
Museums within 2 km of centre26110
Share of museums within 2 km %3257
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Vienna leads by 2 points.2
Sao PauloVienna
Score7274
Drinking venues within 4 km1,7471,948
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre8961,089
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5156
Nightclubs within 4 km118108
Nature & day trips. Sao Paulo leads by 19 points.19
Sao PauloVienna
Score5132
Protected land share 50 km %264
Landscape blanket share 50 km %150
Land share of disc %95100
Park area within 2 km52 hectares93 hectares
Good for families. Vienna leads by 14 points.14
Sao PauloVienna
Score5569
Tourist attractions within 2 km3846
Park area within 2 km52 hectares93 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Vienna leads by 25 points.25
Sao PauloVienna
Score5075
Notable places within 2 km68287
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sao Paulo leads by 22 points.22
Sao PauloVienna
Score8159
Price level global46.176.9
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Sao Paulo leads by 22 points.22
Sao PauloVienna
Score8361
Monthly daytime high22.8 °C to 29.2 °C3.3 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall26 mm to 297 mm38 mm to 80 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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A
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Daytime high, °C
Sao Paulo
28
29
28
27
24
23
23
25
25
27
27
28
Vienna
3
6
11
17
21
25
27
27
21
15
9
4
Rainfall, mm
Sao Paulo
297
259
206
89
64
55
53
26
82
128
146
234
Vienna
42
38
52
42
80
70
78
71
64
47
46
46
Daylight, hours per day
Sao Paulo
13
13
12
12
11
11
11
11
12
13
13
14
Vienna
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Sao Paulo
4
6
6
5
5
5
6
6
5
6
5
5
Vienna
2
4
5
7
8
8
9
9
6
4
2
2

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). Vienna: 1991-2020 normals, Wien / Hohe Warte (4.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSao PauloVienna
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 50 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
2 h 10 m
€105-189
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
12 h 10 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
1 h 25 m
€143-152
VIE · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
13 h 5 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
2 h 5 m
€121-285
VIE · 18 km
MadridMAD
10 h 30 m
€739-741
GRU · 21 km
2 h 45 m
€152-183
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 45 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
1 h 55 m
€112-162
VIE · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 40 m
€576-611
GRU · 21 km
8 h 40 m
€736-786
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
12 h 10 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
1 h 50 m
€180-245
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
ZurichZRH
12 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
1 h 25 m
€170-237
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
15 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
5 h 40 m
€292-307
VIE · 18 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
21 h 20 m
€1,139-1567
2 stops
GRU · 21 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
VIE · 18 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 PauloVienna
Official languagePortugueseGerman, Austrian Sign Language
CurrencyBrazilian Real (BRL)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCN60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 190, ambulance 192, fire 193112
Elevation760 m151 m
Main airportSão Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport (GRU)21 km from centre102 non-stop destinationsVienna International Airport (VIE)18 km from centre204 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureSao PauloVienna
City population11,451,9992,028,289
People per km²7,5194,890
Museums within 10 km90152
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre59113

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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.