VacationSelector

Sao Paulo or Zadar?

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 places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

Zadar
47
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 PauloZadar
Beaches & swimming. Zadar leads by 73 points.73
Sao PauloZadar
Score073
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km049
Coast distance51 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Sao Paulo leads by 48 points.48
Sao PauloZadar
Score7325
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,735143
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2711
Museums & heritage. Sao Paulo leads by 10 points.10
Sao PauloZadar
Score4333
Museums within 10 km828
Museums within 2 km of centre268
Share of museums within 2 km %32100
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Sao Paulo leads by 47 points.47
Sao PauloZadar
Score7225
Drinking venues within 4 km1,747194
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre896139
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5172
Nightclubs within 4 km1184
Nature & day trips. Zadar leads by 4 points.4
Sao PauloZadar
Score5155
Protected land share 50 km %2612
Landscape blanket share 50 km %150
Land share of disc %9547
Park area within 2 km52 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Sao Paulo leads by 24 points.24
Sao PauloZadar
Score5531
Tourist attractions within 2 km389
Park area within 2 km52 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Sao Paulo leads by 19 points.19
Sao PauloZadar
Score5031
Notable places within 2 km6823
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sao Paulo leads by 1 points.1
Sao PauloZadar
Score8180
Price level global46.148.5
Daily budget€138
Year-round weather. Sao Paulo leads by 14 points.14
Sao PauloZadar
Score8369
Monthly daytime high22.8 °C to 29.2 °C10.4 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall26 mm to 297 mm25 mm to 117 mm
Dry months12
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
Zadar
10
11
15
19
23
28
31
31
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Sao Paulo
No coastline within reach
Zadar
14
13
13
14
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Sao Paulo
297
259
206
89
64
55
53
26
82
128
146
234
Zadar
73
64
59
62
58
49
25
32
82
80
117
99
Daylight, hours per day
Sao Paulo
13
13
12
12
11
11
11
11
12
13
13
14
Zadar
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Sao Paulo
4
6
6
5
5
5
6
6
5
6
5
5
Zadar
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). Zadar: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Zadar / Zemunik (9.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSao PauloZadar
AmsterdamAMS
12 h 10 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
2 h 10 m
€186-201
1 stop
SPU · 107 km
RomeFCO, CIA
11 h 45 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
1 h 5 m
€294
SPU · 107 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 45 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
2 h 5 m
€169-225
SPU · 107 km
MunichMUC
12 h 15 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
11 h 50 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
ZAD · 10 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 50 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
ZAD · 10 km
ZurichZRH
12 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
1 h 35 m
€247-298
1 stop
SPU · 107 km
MadridMAD
10 h 30 m
€739-741
GRU · 21 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 40 m
€576-611
GRU · 21 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
12 h 10 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
1 h 40 m
€161-226
1 stop
ZAD · 10 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 PauloZadar
Official languagePortugueseCroatian
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 m5 m
Main airportSão Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport (GRU)21 km from centre102 non-stop destinationsZadar Airport (ZAD)10 km from centre67 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureSao PauloZadar
City population11,451,99970,779
People per km²7,519
Museums within 10 km901
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre5917
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.