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São Paulo Cathedral, Sao Paulo
Sao PauloSão Paulo Cathedral
The Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta
YogyakartaThe Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta

Photos: Sao Paulo by Webysther Nunes, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Yogyakarta by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Sao Paulo or Yogyakarta?

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

  • nightlife
  • food and drink
  • beaches

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

Choose Yogyakarta for

  • day trips
  • prices
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Yogyakarta’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, Yogyakarta 22: Sao Paulo leads by 20 points.
Food & drink. Sao Paulo 84, Yogyakarta 62: Sao Paulo leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Sao Paulo 60, Yogyakarta 68: Yogyakarta leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. Sao Paulo 86, Yogyakarta 32: Sao Paulo leads by 54 points.
Nature & outdoors. Sao Paulo 48, Yogyakarta 72: Yogyakarta leads by 24 points.
Day trips. Sao Paulo 47, Yogyakarta 78: Yogyakarta leads by 31 points.
Good for families. Sao Paulo 52, Yogyakarta 40: Sao Paulo leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Sao Paulo 44, Yogyakarta 35: Sao Paulo leads by 9 points.
Shopping & style. Sao Paulo 70, Yogyakarta 52: Sao Paulo leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Sao Paulo 62, Yogyakarta 92: Yogyakarta leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Sao Paulo 76, Yogyakarta 58: Sao Paulo leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Sao Paulo 25, Yogyakarta 50: Yogyakarta leads by 25 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Sao Paulo and Yogyakarta.

Your match

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

Sao Paulo
Best match
58match

Wins on nightlife and food and drink with your weighting.

Yogyakarta
55match

Wins on day trips and prices 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
No seasea
11 hdaylight a day

Yogyakarta in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
55 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
26 °Csea
12 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Yogyakarta has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Sao Paulo: 1991-2020 normals, Sao Paulo (5.9 km from centre). Yogyakarta: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureSao PauloYogyakarta
Official languagePortugueseIndonesian
CurrencyBrazilian Real (BRL)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsCN60 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+7
Emergency numberPolice 190, ambulance 192, fire 193112
Elevation760 m113 m
Main airportSão Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport (GRU)21 km from centre104 non-stop destinationsYogyakarta International Airport (YIA)39 km from centre20 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days-

By the numbers

MeasureSao PauloYogyakarta
City population11,451,999422,732
People per km²7,51913,007
Museums within 10 km9038
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
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. 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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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.

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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.