
Gramado
Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Municipality of Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil. It lies in southern Brazil, where winters are genuinely cold and summers are the high season.
Why visit: Rio's beaches and hills, São Paulo's restaurants and galleries, Salvador's Afro-Brazilian old town — each a different country's worth of city.
- ›Eat at a per-kilo lunch buffet — cheap, excellent and how Brazilians eat
- ›Use apps for taxis rather than hailing, especially after dark
- ›Carry a little cash and leave the rest at the hotel
- ›Ask locally which neighbourhoods to walk in at night; the answer changes by block
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Best time
April – October in most of the country
Weather
Subtropical with four real seasons, reversed from the northern hemisphere: hot summers of 25–35°C from December to March, and genuinely cold winters from June to August that bring frost inland and occasional snow on the highlands.
Entry fee
Free to explore; attractions ticketed
Hours
Open access
Est. budget
₹3,000 – ₹9,000 for the day
Duration
Full day
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