VacationSelector

Sao Paulo or Zagreb?

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 good for families and places to eat with your weighting.

Zagreb
47
match

Wins on sights concentration and 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 PauloZagreb
Beaches & swimming. Sao Paulo and Zagreb are level on 0.
Sao PauloZagreb
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km08
Coast distance51 km117 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Sao Paulo leads by 21 points.21
Sao PauloZagreb
Score7352
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,735374
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2727
Museums & heritage. Zagreb leads by 2 points.2
Sao PauloZagreb
Score4345
Museums within 10 km8241
Museums within 2 km of centre2640
Share of museums within 2 km %3298
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Sao Paulo leads by 11 points.11
Sao PauloZagreb
Score7261
Drinking venues within 4 km1,7471,009
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre896571
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5157
Nightclubs within 4 km11863
Nature & day trips. Sao Paulo leads by 17 points.17
Sao PauloZagreb
Score5134
Protected land share 50 km %269
Landscape blanket share 50 km %150
Land share of disc %95100
Park area within 2 km52 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Sao Paulo leads by 27 points.27
Sao PauloZagreb
Score5528
Tourist attractions within 2 km387
Park area within 2 km52 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Zagreb leads by 10 points.10
Sao PauloZagreb
Score5060
Notable places within 2 km68122
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sao Paulo leads by 1 points.1
Sao PauloZagreb
Score8180
Price level global46.148.5
Daily budget€138
Year-round weather. Sao Paulo leads by 21 points.21
Sao PauloZagreb
Score8362
Monthly daytime high22.8 °C to 29.2 °C5.4 °C to 28.5 °C
Monthly rainfall26 mm to 297 mm47 mm to 104 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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F
M
A
M
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J
A
S
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D
Daytime high, °C
Sao Paulo
28
29
28
27
24
23
23
25
25
27
27
28
Zagreb
5
8
13
18
23
27
29
28
22
17
11
6
Rainfall, mm
Sao Paulo
297
259
206
89
64
55
53
26
82
128
146
234
Zagreb
47
48
49
63
76
90
87
85
104
91
88
63
Daylight, hours per day
Sao Paulo
13
13
12
12
11
11
11
11
12
13
13
14
Zagreb
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Sao Paulo
4
6
6
5
5
5
6
6
5
6
5
5
Zagreb
2
4
5
6
8
9
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). Zagreb: 1991-2020 normals, Zagreb / Gric (0.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSao PauloZagreb
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
12 h 10 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
13 h 5 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
2 h 0 m
€153-254
ZAG · 11 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 50 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
12 h 10 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
MunichMUC
12 h 15 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 45 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
MadridMAD
10 h 30 m
€739-741
GRU · 21 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
12 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
DohaDOH
14 h 35 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
5 h 15 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
10 h 20 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 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 PauloZagreb
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 m127 m
Main airportSão Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport (GRU)21 km from centre102 non-stop destinationsZagreb Franjo Tuđman International Airport (ZAG)11 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureSao PauloZagreb
City population11,451,999767,131
People per km²7,519
Museums within 10 km9027
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre5942

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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.