São Paulo
São Paulo is the capital city of the state of the same name, and the largest city in Brazil. It is the most populous city in South America, the Americas, and in both the Western and Southern Hemispheres. The city exerts international influence in commerce, finance, culture, gastronomy, arts, fashion, technology, entertainment and media, having been listed by UNESCO's Creative Cities Network as a "City of Film" and the title of "World Capital of Gastronomy", and by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC) as an alpha global city. It is the largest urban area by population outside Asia and the most populous Portuguese-speaking city in the world. The city's name "São Paulo" honors Paul the Apostle and people from the capital city are known as paulistanos. The city's Latin motto is Non ducor, duco, which translates as "I am not led, I lead".
- Country
- 🇧🇷 Brasil
- Elevation
- 745 m
- Population
- 12,400,232
- Time zone
- America/Sao_Paulo
- Coordinates
- -23.55, -46.64
Weather in São Paulo month by month
The best months to go: May · Jul · Aug
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| high | 27° | 27° | 27° | 24° | 23° | 21° | 22° | 23° | 26° | 25° | 26° | 27° |
| low | 19° | 18° | 18° | 15° | 13° | 12° | 11° | 13° | 14° | 16° | 16° | 17° |
| rain | 236 mm | 172 mm | 154 mm | 78 mm | 37 mm | 35 mm | 16 mm | 36 mm | 66 mm | 166 mm | 109 mm | 181 mm |
2019–2023 average (ERA5, Open-Meteo). Monthly rainfall total.
How far São Paulo is from other cities in Brasil
- Guarulhos14 km✈ 46 min · 🚗 14 min
- Curitiba339 km✈ 1 h 10 min · 🚗 5 h 39 min
- Río de Janeiro360 km✈ 1 h 11 min · 🚗 6 h
- Florianópolis489 km✈ 1 h 21 min · 🚗 8 h 9 min
- Belo Horizonte490 km✈ 1 h 21 min · 🚗 8 h 10 min
- Goiânia811 km✈ 1 h 44 min · 🚗 13 h 31 min
- Foz de Iguazú834 km✈ 1 h 46 min · 🚗 13 h 54 min
- Porto Alegre853 km✈ 1 h 47 min · 🚗 14 h 13 min
Photo from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) · Data from GeoNames, Open-Meteo.