Good1 stop · 10h
HOU to HNLUnited States
Honolulu
$593
usually $825
−28%
Most monthly lows $726–$825. Cheaper than every other month on record (3).
Flights · HOU → RIO
Houston to Rio de Janeiro
Best fare, round trip
$530
Too little price history on this route to compare — the fare is shown as found.
Found
- Depart
- Wed 17 Feb
- Return
- Wed 24 Feb
- Stay
- 7 nights
- Flight
- 2 stops · 14.5h
- Airline
Air Canada
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 14.5 hours outbound, on a 7-night trip — ticketed under Air Canada, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $530 for 8,088 km each way, that works out to about $33 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 per 1,000 km typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 25 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Rio de Janeiro, this fare ranks 2nd — 9% above the $487 from New York. It is also the 3rd cheapest of the 29 routes of similar length we watch out of Houston. 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. 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.
The 3 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 36% higher than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $1,038 then versus $1,416 now, across 16 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 $530, on 17 Feb '27.
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.
Cached fares · checked 15 Oct 2026
We are still collecting this route's months — 3 months of cached prices so far, too few to chart.
Route facts
- Airports
- Bush (IAH) · Hobby (HOU) ↔ Galeão (GIG) · Santos Dumont (SDU)
- Flight time
- ≈14.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈8,088 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Air Canada
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
Good to know
HOU → RIO, answered.
How far in advance should I book HOU → 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 Houston to Rio de Janeiro?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Air Canada. 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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