Praia Grande
Praia Grande is a municipality in the Baixada Santista Metropolitan Region, on the southern coast of the Brazilian state of São Paulo.

Praia Grande is a municipality in the Baixada Santista Metropolitan Region, on the southern coast of the Brazilian state of São Paulo. It is part of the Immediate Region of Santos and its population measured in the IBGE census review in 2010 was 262,051 inhabitants. In the 2022 IBGE census, the population of Praia Grande was 349,935 inhabitants, being the city in Baixada Santista that grew the most in the period 2010–2022. It is the second most populous city on the coast of São Paulo, after only Santos. With an area of 149.652 km2, the population density in 2022 was 2,338.32 inhabitants/km2. The municipality is formed by the headquarters and the district of Solemar.
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Worth seeing in and around Praia Grande
2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01São Vicente Suspension Bridge
São Vicente Suspension Bridge is a suspension bridge in São Vicente, São Paulo, Brazil. It was one of the first suspension bridges in Brazil, and carries vehicle and pedestrian traffic between Morro dos Barbosas and Japuí.
3.7 km · bridge in São Vicente · Wikipedia - 02Xixová-Japuí State Park
The Xixová-Japuí State Park is a State park in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. It protects an isolated area of well-preserved Atlantic Forest on the Atlantic coast near the city of São Paulo.
1.2 km · state park in São Paulo, Brazil · Wikipedia
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Getting to Praia Grande
- Airports
- Congonhas–Deputado Freitas Nobre (CGH), 49 km · São Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro (GRU), 64 km · Viracopos (VCP), 134 km
- São Paulo → Praia Grande56 km · quickest by road, 1h 46m · R$21–28
- Campinas → Praia Grande140 km · quickest by road, 2h 54m · R$47–65
- Curitiba → Praia Grande330 km · quickest by road, 6h 52m · R$105–140
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Praia Grande
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Praia Grande. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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If you know how people move in Praia Grande – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Praia Grande
Praia Grande is 5 km from São Vicente, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- São Vicentemunicipality of São Paulo state, Brazil4.7 km