Route brief · LAX → SAO
Los Angeles → São Paulo
$502
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Dec 25 – Jan 23 '27 · 29 nights
United1 stop
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefSAOSão PauloNot pretty and not trying to be — the food, the music and the fares out of here beat Rio on every count.Best windowMar–May · Sep–NovAirportsGuarulhos (GRU) · Congonhas (CGH) · Viracopos (VCP)All routes into São PauloWhen this route gets cheap.
Best time to be in São Paulo: Mar–May · Sep–Nov. 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 14.5 hours outbound, on a 29-night trip — ticketed under United, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $502 for 9,906 km each way, that works out to about $25 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $44 that long-haul fares on this board typically run. Across the 32 departure cities we track at a similar distance from São Paulo, this fare ranks 3rd — 41% above the $357 from Boston. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 46 routes of similar length we watch out of Los Angeles, where the middle fare is $674. We have 1 month 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 one day we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 15% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $712 then versus $607 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 $412, on Sep 12.
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) ↔ Guarulhos (GRU) · Congonhas (CGH) · Viracopos (VCP)
- Flight time
- ~14.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~9,906 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- United
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Sep–Nov
LA → SAO, answered.
How far in advance should I book LA → São Paulo?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 São Paulo?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under United. 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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