
HKG to PEKChina
Beijing
$175
usually $265
−34%
Most monthly lows $205–$458. Cheaper than every other month on record (8).
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Flights · HKG → RIO
Best fare, round trip
$1,777
−3%
below its usual $1,840
you keep $63
Most of this route’s monthly lows fall between $1,782 and $1,930. The drop beats 1% of measured fares on the board, over 5 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
Fares bottom out in December around $1,777 and peak in February near $2,107, 19% dearer, across the 5 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 2 stops and takes about 25 hours outbound, on a 6-night trip — ticketed under Emirates, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $1,777 for 17,691 km each way, that works out to about $50 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $42 per 1,000 km typical of ultra-long-haul fares here. Across the 12 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Rio de Janeiro, this fare ranks 7th — 50% above the $1,188 from Delhi. For context, the middle fare among the 13 routes of similar length we watch out of Hong Kong is $1,583. The best time to be in Rio de Janeiro: Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct.
The 6 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 4% lower than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $1,873 then versus $1,807 now, across 12 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 $1,514, on 5 Nov.
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 Dec, around $1,777
3% below the $1,840 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found each month, Hong Kong to Rio de Janeiro, from cached prices.
Route facts
Good to know
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $1,840 round-trip and this fare is 3% 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.
Across 5 months of cached-fare history, Dec 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.
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, Dec comes out lowest on this route. Our guide Why flight prices change covers what does move a fare.
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Emirates. We hold no nonstop fare on this route right now, which does not mean none flies — search your exact dates to see what does.
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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