São Paulo · Brazil
Ribeirão Preto travel guide
Ribeirão Preto is a city in São Paulo, Brazil, home to about 732,000 people.
- Best months
- April to August
- Nearest airport
- RAO6 km · Leite Lopes Airport
- Currency
- BRLBrazilian real
- Time zone
- America/Sao Paulo
- Language
- Portuguese, Brazilian Sign Language
About
About Ribeirão Preto
Ribeirão Preto is a city and a metropolitan area located in the northeastern region of São Paulo state, Brazil.
The city was founded June 19, 1856, by farmers coming from the southeast of São Paulo State in search of good climate and soil for coffee growing. The city was laid by a stream called Black Creek, and was named after it. Eventually the farmers’ choice revealed itself as very adequate and the fertile soil of the Ribeirão Preto region allowed the highest crop productivity in Brazil. The rapid development of the coffee cultivation brought wealth and progress to the city, which by the 1880s had become the largest coffee producer in the world.
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Things to do
What to see and do in Ribeirão Preto
See
- Metropolitan Cathedral
- Pedro II Theater
- Seven Chapels
- History of Coffee Museum
- History Museum
- Museum of Images and Sound
- Botanical Garden Park
- Curupira Park
- Fábio Barreto Municipal Forest
- Luís Carlos Raya Park
- Maurílio Biagi Park
- Tom Jobim Park
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When to go
The best time to visit Ribeirão Preto
The most comfortable months for a city stay in Ribeirão Preto are April to August. October is the warmest month, with average highs of 30 °C; January is the wettest, with about 308 mm of rain.
Comfortable means average daytime high between 18 °C and 29 °C and under 80 mm of rain in the month. Averages for 1991–2020 over the surrounding area, a grid square about 50 km across, so a coast or a nearby mountain can make the town itself warmer or cooler. Data: CRU TS v4.10, Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia (Open Database License).
Getting there
Getting to Ribeirão Preto: airports and arrival
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Leite Lopes Airport (RAO), about 6.1 km from the city centre in a straight line; Araraquara Airport (AQA, 78 km) is also within reach.
RAO · Leite Lopes Airport
AQA · Araraquara Airport
Local knowledge
Eating, drinking and staying safe in Ribeirão Preto
Drink
An important moment for the city occurred in 1911 with the opening of its first factory, the Antarctica Brewery Company. It was Antarctica which built the Pedro II Theatre, and its new factory led to the opening of several beer houses in the city. One of them, named Pinguim (penguin in Portuguese, after the Antarctica logo), became particularly famous and made Ribeirão Preto nationally renowned for the quality of its draft beer (chope or chopp). Many people say that Pinguim has the best draft beer in Brazil, and it has become so important that it is now a symbol of the city; people say that coming to Ribeirão Preto and not visiting Pinguim is like going to Rome and not seeing the Pope.
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Questions
Ribeirão Preto: questions travellers ask
When is the best time to visit Ribeirão Preto?
The most comfortable months for a city stay in Ribeirão Preto are April to August. October is the warmest month, with average highs of 30 °C; January is the wettest, with about 308 mm of rain.
Which airport is closest to Ribeirão Preto?
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Leite Lopes Airport (RAO), about 6.1 km from the city centre in a straight line; Araraquara Airport (AQA, 78 km) is also within reach.
What currency is used in Ribeirão Preto?
Brazilian real (BRL).
Nearby
Destinations near Ribeirão Preto
Sources: city facts from Wikidata and Wikipedia; airports from OurAirports; climate from CRU TS v4.10 (University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit), 1991–2020 monthly means, 0.5° grid; places to stay, guest scores and amenities from each operator's own public pages. How this guide is made.