VacationSelector

Sao Paulo or York?

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 value for money with your weighting.

York
41
match

Wins on 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 PauloYork
Beaches & swimming. Sao Paulo and York are level on 0.
Sao PauloYork
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km02
Coast distance51 km50 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Sao Paulo leads by 19 points.19
Sao PauloYork
Score7354
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,735361
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2731
Museums & heritage. York leads by 3 points.3
Sao PauloYork
Score4346
Museums within 10 km8218
Museums within 2 km of centre2616
Share of museums within 2 km %3289
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Sao Paulo leads by 29 points.29
Sao PauloYork
Score7243
Drinking venues within 4 km1,747450
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre896353
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5178
Nightclubs within 4 km11814
Nature & day trips. Sao Paulo leads by 18 points.18
Sao PauloYork
Score5133
Protected land share 50 km %2617
Landscape blanket share 50 km %1516
Land share of disc %9595
Park area within 2 km52 hectares42 hectares
Good for families. Sao Paulo leads by 12 points.12
Sao PauloYork
Score5543
Tourist attractions within 2 km3813
Park area within 2 km52 hectares42 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Sao Paulo leads by 11 points.11
Sao PauloYork
Score5039
Notable places within 2 km6837
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sao Paulo leads by 27 points.27
Sao PauloYork
Score8154
Price level global46.184.9
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Sao Paulo leads by 27 points.27
Sao PauloYork
Score8356
Monthly daytime high22.8 °C to 29.2 °C6.7 °C to 20.9 °C
Monthly rainfall26 mm to 297 mm39 mm to 66 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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J
A
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Daytime high, °C
Sao Paulo
28
29
28
27
24
23
23
25
25
27
27
28
York
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
20
18
14
10
7
Rainfall, mm
Sao Paulo
297
259
206
89
64
55
53
26
82
128
146
234
York
53
44
39
48
43
61
56
65
58
66
62
60
Daylight, hours per day
Sao Paulo
13
13
12
12
11
11
11
11
12
13
13
14
York
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Sao Paulo
4
6
6
5
5
5
6
6
5
6
5
5
York
2
3
4
5
6
5
6
5
4
3
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). York: 1991-2020 normals, Leeming (47.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSao PauloYork
BarcelonaBCN
11 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
10 h 20 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
MadridMAD
10 h 30 m
€739-741
GRU · 21 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 40 m
€576-611
GRU · 21 km
7 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
21 h 20 m
€1,139-1567
2 stops
GRU · 21 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
Punta CanaPUJ
6 h 50 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
8 h 40 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 45 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
AmsterdamAMS
12 h 10 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
RomeFCO, CIA
11 h 45 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
LBA · 39 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 PauloYork
Official languagePortugueseEnglish
CurrencyBrazilian Real (BRL)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCN60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-3UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 190, ambulance 192, fire 193112 or 999
Elevation760 m25 m
Main airportSão Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport (GRU)21 km from centre102 non-stop destinationsLeeds Bradford Airport (LBA)39 km from centre73 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureSao PauloYork
City population11,451,999208,400
People per km²7,519766
Museums within 10 km9024
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre5954

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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. 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.