Route brief · CPH → RIO
Copenhagen → Rio de Janeiro
$1,070
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Oct 13 – Oct 20 · 7 nights
Ryanair3 stops
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.
Best time to be in Rio de Janeiro: Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct. Fare history for this route is still thin, so we make no seasonal call yet.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 3 stops and takes about 16.5 hours outbound, on a 7-night trip — ticketed under Ryanair, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $1,070 for 10,193 km each way, that works out to about $52 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 32 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Rio de Janeiro, this fare ranks 26th — 2.4× the $439 we hold from Boston. For context, the middle fare among the 38 routes of similar length we watch out of Copenhagen is $803. We have 2 months of cached prices for this route so far — not enough to call a fare cheap or expensive, so we publish the price without a percentage.
The 3 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 9% lower than when tracking began on Aug 15 — $1,182 then versus $1,070 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 $944, on Nov 12.
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.
Route facts
- Airports
- Kastrup (CPH) ↔ Galeão (GIG) · Santos Dumont (SDU)
- Flight time
- ~16.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~10,193 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Ryanair
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
CPH → RIO, answered.
How far in advance should I book CPH → 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We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Copenhagen to Rio de Janeiro?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Ryanair. 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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