São Paulo
City in Brazil: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
Overview
São Paulo is a city in Brazil. About 12.4 million people live in the city proper, making it the 1st largest city of Brazil in our atlas.
It lies at 23.55° S, 46.64° W, about 769 m (2,523 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the America/Sao_Paulo time zone.
Location
Red dot: São Paulo. Green dots: other major cities of Brazil. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
São Paulo has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa). The warmest month is usually Dec, with average highs near 27°C (81°F); the coolest nights come in Jul at about 10°C (50°F). Around 1,353 mm (53 in) of rain and snow falls in a typical year, most of it in Jan.
Bars: average daily high and low (°C) for each month; blue columns and figures: average precipitation (mm). Gridded 2001-2025 averages from NASA POWER, so mountain and coastal spots can differ from local station records.
Landmarks and places to see
Popular sights within a few kilometres of the city centre, ranked by how widely they are documented on Wikipedia.
What to eat in BrazilNational dishes, street food, desserts and drinks on Intercontinental Chef.Nearby major cities
- Guarulhos · 14 km
- Campinas · 83 km
- Curitiba · 340 km
- Rio de Janeiro · 359 km
- Belo Horizonte · 487 km
- Goiânia · 808 km
- Porto Alegre · 858 km
- Brasília · 872 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 3448439 (CC BY 4.0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- Mirante do vale Building(by felipe mostarda): Felipe Mostarda, CC BY 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Vista aérea de la Avenida Paulista de São Paulo 05: ProtoplasmaKid, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Edifício Itália, SP: Dornicke (Lucas B. Salles), Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
- Parque do ibirapuera visto do céu: Fernando Stankuns, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Edifício Copan, SP: Dornicke (Lucas B. Salles), Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
- Estadio Municipal do Pacaembú. - panoramio: joao batista Shimoto, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Eldorado Business tower, São Paulo, Brazil: Wilfredor, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
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