Rare1 stop · 5h
DFW to CUNMexico
Cancún
$228
usually $380
−40%
Most monthly lows $335–$380. Cheaper than every other month on record (3).
Flights · DFW → RIO
Dallas to Rio de Janeiro
Best fare, round trip
$1,200
Too little price history on this route to compare — the fare is shown as found.
Found
- Depart
- Thu 4 Feb
- Return
- Tue 9 Feb
- Stay
- 5 nights
- Flight
- 2 stops · 13h
- Airline
avianca airlines El Salvador
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
BrazilRio 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)Every route into Rio de JaneiroFare seasonality
When this route gets cheap.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 2 stops and takes about 13 hours outbound, on a 5-night trip — ticketed under avianca airlines El Salvador, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $1,200 for 8,407 km each way, that works out to about $71 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $44 per 1,000 km typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 29 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Rio de Janeiro, this fare ranks 29th — 2.5× the $487 we hold from New York. For context, the middle fare among the 28 routes of similar length we watch out of Dallas is $822. We have 1 month 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. Fare history here is still too short to name a cheap season. The best time to be in Rio de Janeiro: Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct.
We are still collecting this route's months — 1 month of cached prices so far, too few to chart.
Route facts
- Airports
- DFW · Love Field (DAL) ↔ Galeão (GIG) · Santos Dumont (SDU)
- Flight time
- ≈13 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈8,407 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- avianca airlines El Salvador
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
Good to know
DFW → RIO, answered.
How far in advance should I book DFW → 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We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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. Our guide Why flight prices change covers the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Dallas to Rio de Janeiro?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under avianca airlines El Salvador. We hold no nonstop fare on this route right now, which does not mean none flies — search your exact dates to see what does.
Are these prices guaranteed?
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on 4 October). 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.
Next step
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