São Paulo Nightlife Guide for Sunday, February 22, 2026

The Rio Times · SP Nightlife Desk

Último Dia · Daniela Mercury closes Carnaval 2026 on the Consolação, Léo Santana takes the Ibirapuera, and the city says goodbye to the folia

📍 R. da Consolação, 2101 → 585 — Consolação

🕐 Concentration 1 pm · desfile 2 pm – 6 pm
🎤 Axé · trio elétrico
💰 Free

The official closing act of Carnaval 2026 in São Paulo. Daniela Mercury’s Pipoca da Rainha — literally “the Queen’s Popcorn,” named after the Bahian tradition of cordless blocos where the crowd dances free — celebrates ten years on the streets of São Paulo with what has become the city’s definitive farewell to the folia. Listed in the Guinness Book as the largest pipoca on the planet and expected to draw around two million foliões this year, the bloco turns the Rua da Consolação into a five-hour circuit of axé, with Daniela commanding the trio elétrico through “Swing da Cor,” “O Canto da Cidade,” “Maimbê Dandá” and thirty-five years’ worth of hits. This year also marks the thirtieth anniversary of the “Feijão com Arroz” album and of the creation of Salvador’s Barra-Ondina circuit, both Daniela initiatives from 1996. The theme for 2026 centres on the strength of women. Stations Consolação and Higienópolis-Mackenzie will see heavy traffic — arrive early, hydrate, and prepare to lose your voice.

📍 Av. Pedro Álvares Cabral, between Obelisco and Monumento às Bandeiras — Ibirapuera

🕐 Concentration 9 am · dispersão 2 pm
🎤 Axé · pagode baiano
💰 Free

The morning option for those who want to begin the last day early at the Ibirapuera. Léo Santana — the Bahian singer known as “O GG” (the Giant) — brings the Vem com o Gigante bloco to the same stretch of Av. Pedro Álvares Cabral that BaianaSystem shook yesterday. The repertoire is peak pagode baiano: “Desliza,” “Contatinho,” “Marquinha de Fitinha” and the kind of high-energy choreographed numbers that Léo has turned into an arena-filling formula. The bloco runs from the Obelisco to the Monumento às Bandeiras with dispersal at 2 pm, which leaves plenty of time to rehydrate, eat, and reposition for Daniela Mercury on the Consolação at 1 pm. The two blocos don’t overlap — Léo finishes as Daniela starts. Strategic logistics for the committed folião.

📍 Av. Auro Soares de Moura Andrade, 141 — Barra Funda

🕐 5 am – noon
🎧 House · techno · underground
💰 Ingresse · 18+

D-Edge’s weekly Sunday ritual — the Super After — is São Paulo’s definitive morning-after experience. Doors open at 5 am and the marathon runs until noon across D-Edge’s award-winning sound system, where the avant-garde design and lighting rig transform the post-dawn hours into a sensory event that has no equivalent in the city. The venue pioneered the Barra Funda nightlife district when it opened in 2003 and has since earned a reputation as one of the best electronic clubs in Latin America. Tonight’s Super After arrives on the back of last night’s Nave party, meaning the crowd will be deep into the weekend and the energy accordingly intense. Buy advance tickets via Ingresse — door sales are limited. Station Palmeiras-Barra Funda, open 24 hours tonight, is an eight-minute walk.

📍 R. Quintino Bocaiúva, 22 — Sé (Palacete Teresa)

🕐 Salão 12 pm / Porão 4 pm + 7:30 pm / Largo 5:30 pm
🎤 Samba · son cubano · cortejo
💰 R$26 advance / first 100 free / Largo free

Three venues, three programmes, one historic building. The Casa de Francisca — which in 2025 was named Best Programming, Best Bar and Food, and Best Comfort in the Folha de São Paulo’s “Best Venue” awards for spaces under 500 — runs a full Sunday inside the Palacete Teresa, the former home of the Casa Bevilacqua instrument shop and the old Rádio Record studios, in the heart of the Sé. The Salão hosts Quimbará across two lunch sessions (12 pm and 3 pm) — son cubano, bolero, salsa and chá-chá-chá from the paulistano ensemble that specialises in the music of the Hispanic Caribbean. Downstairs in the Porão, Samba de Dandara takes the stage at 4 pm and again at 7:30 pm: a collective built around the exaltation of women in samba, named for the legendary warrior Dandara, mixing samba de roda, ijexá, afoxé and pontos de candomblé with original compositions on ancestrality and female resistance. First 100 at each session enter free; advance tickets R$26 online. And out in the Largo at 5:30 pm, the Bloco dos Bonecões — a decade-old cortejo of giant puppets created by bonequeiro Paulo Farah — parades through the pedestrianised street with the Banda Bonequeira, mixing samba paulista, frevo, maracatu and ijexá. Free, all ages, and a perfect bridge between the two Porão sessions.

📍 R. Horácio Lane, 21 — Pinheiros

🕐 7 pm – 12:30 am
🎤 Samba · choro · MPB
💰 ~R$15 cover

The final samba of the season. Since 2001, the Ó do Borogodó has been Pinheiros’ most dependable address for samba de raiz — a tiny, sweltering, gloriously unpretentious bar where the quality of the music is inversely proportional to the size of the room. Sunday nights run from 7 pm to half past midnight with live samba that crosses partido-alto, choro and MPB. The house is small and the tables go fast — arrive early or stand. Try the carne de sol com abóbora between sets. It’s the kind of place where the musicians are three feet away and the entire room sings along, and on the last night of Carnaval, that proximity becomes something close to communion. The bar sits a short walk from Fradique Coutinho station on Line 4-Amarela.

Three-stop Sunday

Bloco Beats — Pedro Sampaio
Ibirapuera · 1 pm – 6 pm · electronic-funk fusion · free

Esquerda Ligeira
R. Antonio Bicudo, 304 — Pinheiros · 1 pm – 6 pm · satirical marchinhas · free

Chega Mais (Anos 80)
Praça Rafael Sapienza — Vila Madalena · 10 am · MPB releituras · free

Folia no Matagal — Ney Matogrosso tribute
Centro Cultural Vila Itororó — Bela Vista · afternoon · free

Bloco dos Bonecões do Chiquinha
Av. Ipiranga x Av. São João — Centro · 11 am – 3 pm · giant puppets · free

Until Next Year

Carnaval 2027 falls on February 9.

Published 22 Feb 2026 · The Rio Times SP Nightlife Desk