ExceptionalNonstop · 2.5h
FRA to ALCSpain
Alicante
$60
usually $235
−74%
Most monthly lows $146–$236. Cheaper than every other month on record (3).
Flights · FRA → RIO
Frankfurt to Rio de Janeiro
Best fare, round trip
$938
−17%
below its usual $1,125
you keep $187
Found
- Depart
- Thu 3 Jun
- Return
- Wed 9 Jun
- Stay
- 6 nights
- Flight
- 1 stop · 13h
- Airline
Air France
Most of this route’s monthly lows fall between $1,005 and $1,142. The drop beats 47% of measured fares on the board, over 7 observed months.
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.
Fares bottom out in November around $881 and peak in January near $1,501, 70% dearer, across the 7 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 13 hours outbound, on a 6-night trip — ticketed under Air France, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $938 for 9,575 km each way, that works out to about $49 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $44 per 1,000 km typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 32 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Rio de Janeiro, this fare ranks 19th — 1.9× the $487 we hold from New York. For context, the middle fare among the 39 routes of similar length we watch out of Frankfurt is $690. The best time to be in Rio de Janeiro: Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Day-level prices for the next 4 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 36% higher than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $1,032 then versus $1,401 now, across 18 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 $767, on 15 Sep.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 12 of 111 days priced, from 71 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
October 2026
13141516171819Tuesday 20 October: $1.1k. Compare fares from this day.21222324252627Wednesday 28 October: $979. Compare fares from this day.293031
November 2026
123456789101112131415Monday 16 November: $1k. Compare fares from this day.17181920Saturday 21 November: $881. Compare fares from this day.222324252627282930
December 2026
1Wednesday 2 December: $953. Compare fares from this day.34567891011121314151617181920212223Thursday 24 December: $1.7k. Compare fares from this day.Friday 25 December: $2.2k. Compare fares from this day.26Sunday 27 December: $1.3k. Compare fares from this day.28Tuesday 29 December: $1.6k. Compare fares from this day.3031
January 2027
123Monday 4 January: $1.7k. Compare fares from this day.Tuesday 5 January: $1.6k. Compare fares from this day.6Thursday 7 January: $1.5k. Compare fares from this day.8910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031
Cached fares · checked 13 Oct 2026
Cheapest in Nov, around $881
22% below the $1,125 typical fare
$979Oct, below the usual price. Compare October fares.$881Nov, the cheapest month. Compare November fares.$953Dec, below the usual price. Compare December fares.$1501Jan ’27, above the usual price. Compare January fares.$1126Feb, around the usual price. Compare February fares.$938Jun, below the usual price. Compare June fares.$1142Aug, around the usual price. Compare August fares.
CheapestBelow usualUsualAbove usualPress a month to compare its fares
Cheapest round-trip fare found each month, Frankfurt to Rio de Janeiro, from cached prices.
Route facts
- Airports
- Frankfurt (FRA) · Hahn (HHN) ↔ Galeão (GIG) · Santos Dumont (SDU)
- Flight time
- ≈13 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈9,575 km each way
- Typical price
- $1,125 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Air France
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
Good to know
FRA → RIO, answered.
Is $938 a good price for Frankfurt to Rio de Janeiro?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $1,125 round-trip and this fare is 17% under it. We do not call a drop notable until 20%, so this is an ordinary price for the route rather than a reason to hurry.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Frankfurt to Rio de Janeiro?
Across 7 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 FRA → 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 7 months of cached fares, Nov comes out lowest on this route. Our guide Why flight prices change covers what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Frankfurt to Rio de Janeiro?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Air France. 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 17 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.
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