Route brief · CAN → RIO
Guangzhou → Rio de Janeiro
$1,544
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Jan 18 '27 – Jan 31 '27 · 13 nights
Turkish Airlines2 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 2 stops and takes about 26.5 hours outbound, on a 13-night trip — ticketed under Turkish Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $1,544 for 17,606 km each way, that works out to about $44 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 5th — 14% above the $1,353 from Shanghai. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 12 routes of similar length we watch out of Guangzhou, where the middle fare is $1,562. We have 3 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 one day we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 2% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $1,752 then versus $1,709 now, across 4 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 $1,618, on Aug 28.
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
- Baiyun (CAN) ↔ Galeão (GIG) · Santos Dumont (SDU)
- Flight time
- ~26.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~17,606 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Turkish Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
CAN → RIO, answered.
How far in advance should I book CAN → 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We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 Guangzhou to Rio de Janeiro?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Turkish Airlines. 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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