Route brief · LON → RIO
London → Rio de Janeiro
$1,039
−18% vs typical
seasonal median $1,270 · difference $231
Sep 16 – Oct 22 · 36 nights
Wizz Air Malta3 stops
- Usual monthly lows
- $1,061–$1,627
- Board rank
- Stronger than 49%
- Route sample
- 6 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 6 months, Sep is the cheapest for LON → RIO. Best time to be there: Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in September around $1,039 and peak in August near $2,255 — a $1,216 spread across the 6 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 3 stops and takes about 17 hours outbound, on a 36-night trip — ticketed under Wizz Air Malta, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $1,039 for 9,277 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 30 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Rio de Janeiro, this fare ranks 23rd — 2.4× the $439 we hold from Boston. For context, the middle fare among the 36 routes of similar length we watch out of London is $661.
Day-level prices for the next 3 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 3% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $1,098 then versus $1,127 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 $917, on Nov 16.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 12 of 101 days priced, from 46 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
Cheapest in Sep · around $1,039
18% below the $1,270 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · London → Rio de Janeiro · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Heathrow (LHR) · Gatwick (LGW) · Stansted (STN) · Luton (LTN) ↔ Galeão (GIG) · Santos Dumont (SDU)
- Flight time
- ~17 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~9,277 km each way
- Typical price
- $1,270 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Wizz Air Malta
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
LON → RIO, answered.
Is $1,039 a good price for London to Rio de Janeiro?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $1,270 round-trip and this fare is 18% under it, about $231. 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 London to Rio de Janeiro?
Across 6 months of cached-fare history, Sep 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 LON → 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 6 months of cached fares, Sep comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from London to Rio de Janeiro?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Wizz Air Malta. 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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