Route brief · LAX → RIO
Los Angeles → Rio de Janeiro
$700
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Nov 30 – Dec 7 · 7 nights
Copa Airlines1 stop
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 one stop and takes about 13.5 hours outbound, on a 7-night trip — ticketed under Copa Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $700 for 10,143 km each way, that works out to about $35 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 32 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Rio de Janeiro, this fare ranks 7th — 59% above the $439 from Boston. For context, the middle fare among the 46 routes of similar length we watch out of Los Angeles is $674. 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 2 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 30% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $691 then versus $898 now, across 6 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 $613, on Sep 30.
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
- LAX · Burbank (BUR) · Long Beach (LGB) ↔ Galeão (GIG) · Santos Dumont (SDU)
- Flight time
- ~13.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~10,143 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Copa Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
LA → RIO, answered.
How far in advance should I book LA → 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We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 Los Angeles to Rio de Janeiro?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Copa 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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