Route brief · BKK → RIO
Bangkok → Rio de Janeiro
$1,483
−22% vs typical
seasonal median $1,890 · difference $407
Nov 4 – Nov 24 · 20 nights
Lufthansa2 stops
- Usual monthly lows
- $1,787–$1,892
- Board rank
- Stronger than 61%
- Route sample
- 5 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefRIORio de JaneiroBeaches with mountains growing out of them. Fares south swing hard — we catch the dips.Best windowApr–Jun · Sep–OctAirportsGaleão (GIG) · Santos Dumont (SDU)All routes into Rio de JaneiroWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 5 months, Nov is the cheapest for BKK → RIO. Best time to be there: Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in November around $1,483 and peak in December near $2,148 — a $665 spread across the 5 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 2 stops and takes about 25.5 hours outbound, on a 20-night trip — ticketed under Lufthansa, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $1,483 for 16,060 km each way, that works out to about $46 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $40 typical of ultra-long-haul fares here. Across the 11 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Rio de Janeiro, this fare ranks 4th — 10% above the $1,353 from Shanghai. For context, the middle fare among the 17 routes of similar length we watch out of Bangkok is $1,434.
The 8 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 3% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $1,894 then versus $1,839 now, across 5 recorded snapshots. This is a calendar-level trend, so an individual deal above can be lower. The lowest single day we have seen here is $1,483, on Nov 4.
- Fri, Sep 11$1,789
- Sat, Sep 12$1,787
- Sun, Sep 13$1,891
- Wed, Oct 14$2,018
- Mon, Oct 26$1,888
- Wed, Nov 4$1,483
- Mon, Nov 9$1,747
- Wed, Dec 9$2,148
These are the only days we have a cached price for on this route so far — not the only days it flies. The search above covers any date.
Cheapest in Nov · around $1,483
22% below the $1,890 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Bangkok → Rio de Janeiro · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Suvarnabhumi (BKK) · Don Mueang (DMK) ↔ Galeão (GIG) · Santos Dumont (SDU)
- Flight time
- ~25.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~16,060 km each way
- Typical price
- $1,890 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Lufthansa
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
BKK → RIO, answered.
Is $1,483 a good price for Bangkok to Rio de Janeiro?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $1,890 round-trip. At $1,483 you're 22% below that, saving about $407, which we rate good for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Bangkok to Rio de Janeiro?
Across 5 months of cached-fare history, Nov comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Rio de Janeiro are Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book BKK → Rio de Janeiro?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet. Answering it honestly means watching the same departure date on this route over many weeks as it approaches, and that archive is still filling up — so any "book N days ahead" figure here would be borrowed from somewhere else rather than measured. What we can measure is which month is cheap: across 5 months of cached fares, Nov comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Bangkok to Rio de Janeiro?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Lufthansa. Nonstop options exist on many dates at higher prices — check the live search for your exact dates.
Are these prices guaranteed?
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on September 1). Airlines reprice constantly, so the booking search re-checks the live price before you pay. Fresher finds are far more likely to still be available.
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