VacationSelector

Sao Paulo or West Palm Beach?

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 sights concentration with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
42
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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 PauloWest Palm Beach
Beaches & swimming. West Palm Beach leads by 88 points.88
Sao PauloWest Palm Beach
Score088
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km010
Coast distance51 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Sao Paulo leads by 36 points.36
Sao PauloWest Palm Beach
Score7337
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,735262
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2714
Museums & heritage. Sao Paulo leads by 26 points.26
Sao PauloWest Palm Beach
Score4317
Museums within 10 km825
Museums within 2 km of centre263
Share of museums within 2 km %3260
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Sao Paulo leads by 52 points.52
Sao PauloWest Palm Beach
Score7220
Drinking venues within 4 km1,747132
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre89690
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5168
Nightclubs within 4 km11810
Nature & day trips. West Palm Beach leads by 18 points.18
Sao PauloWest Palm Beach
Score5169
Protected land share 50 km %2615
Landscape blanket share 50 km %150
Land share of disc %9545
Park area within 2 km52 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. Sao Paulo leads by 34 points.34
Sao PauloWest Palm Beach
Score5521
Tourist attractions within 2 km383
Park area within 2 km52 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Sao Paulo leads by 38 points.38
Sao PauloWest Palm Beach
Score5012
Notable places within 2 km688
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sao Paulo leads by 38 points.38
Sao PauloWest Palm Beach
Score8143
Price level global46.1100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Sao Paulo leads by 8 points.8
Sao PauloWest Palm Beach
Score8375
Monthly daytime high22.8 °C to 29.2 °C24 °C to 32.5 °C
Monthly rainfall26 mm to 297 mm67 mm to 217 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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Daytime high, °C
Sao Paulo
28
29
28
27
24
23
23
25
25
27
27
28
West Palm Beach
24
25
26
28
30
32
32
33
31
30
27
25
Sea temperature, °C
Sao Paulo
No coastline within reach
West Palm Beach
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Sao Paulo
297
259
206
89
64
55
53
26
82
128
146
234
West Palm Beach
86
67
84
92
126
214
145
217
199
147
88
78
Daylight, hours per day
Sao Paulo
13
13
12
12
11
11
11
11
12
13
13
14
West Palm Beach
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Sao Paulo
4
6
6
5
5
5
6
6
5
6
5
5
West Palm Beach
No sunshine record

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). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSao PauloWest Palm Beach
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 40 m
€576-611
GRU · 21 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
MadridMAD
10 h 30 m
€739-741
GRU · 21 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
Rio de JaneiroGIG, SDU, RRJ
1 h 5 m
€190-227
GRU · 21 km
8 h 35 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
9 h 40 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
Buenos AiresEZE, AEP
2 h 40 m
€281-355
GRU · 21 km
9 h 5 m
€511-537
MIA · 105 km
BrasiliaBSB
1 h 40 m
€232-237
CGH · 9 km
7 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
10 h 20 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
9 h 30 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
BostonBOS, PSM
9 h 45 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
15 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 105 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 PauloWest Palm Beach
Official languagePortuguese
CurrencyBrazilian Real (BRL)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCN60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 190, ambulance 192, fire 193911
Elevation760 m6 m
Main airportSão Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport (GRU)21 km from centre102 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSao PauloWest Palm Beach
City population11,451,999117,415
People per km²7,519786
Museums within 10 km904
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre5918
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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. 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.