Route brief · LIS → RIO
Lisbon → Rio de Janeiro
$867
−8% vs typical
seasonal median $940 · difference $73
Nov 11 – Nov 19 · 8 nights
Azul Airlines1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $921–$946
- Board rank
- Stronger than 14%
- Route sample
- 8 observed months
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.
Cached-fare history: across 8 months, Nov is the cheapest for LIS → RIO. Best time to be there: Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in November around $867 and peak in July near $1,246 — a $379 spread across the 8 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 11.5 hours outbound, on a 8-night trip — ticketed under Azul Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $867 for 7,715 km each way, that works out to about $56 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 22 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Rio de Janeiro, this fare ranks 12th — 2.0× the $439 we hold from Boston. For context, the middle fare among the 26 routes of similar length we watch out of Lisbon is $789.
Cheapest day in the next 3 months: Sep 14 · $780 (27% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 3% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $1,043 then versus $1,071 now, across 5 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 $712, on Sep 1.
September 2026
Cheapest in Nov · around $867
8% below the $940 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Lisbon → Rio de Janeiro · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Humberto Delgado (LIS) ↔ Galeão (GIG) · Santos Dumont (SDU)
- Flight time
- ~11.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~7,715 km each way
- Typical price
- $940 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Azul Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
LIS → RIO, answered.
Is $867 a good price for Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $940 round-trip and this fare is 8% under it, about $73. 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 Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro?
Across 8 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 LIS → 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 8 months of cached fares, Nov comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Azul 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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