Route brief · MNL → SAO
Manila → São Paulo
$1,831
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Dec 11 – Dec 20 · 9 nights
Cathay Pacific2 stops
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 2 stops and takes about 28.5 hours outbound, on a 9-night trip — ticketed under Cathay Pacific, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $1,831 for 18,378 km each way, that works out to about $50 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $40 typical of ultra-long-haul fares here. Across the 11 departure cities we track at a similar distance from São Paulo, this fare ranks 9th — 39% above the $1,320 from Shanghai. For context, the middle fare among the 9 routes of similar length we watch out of Manila is $1,351. 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.
Route facts
- Airports
- Ninoy Aquino (MNL) · Clark (CRK) ↔ Guarulhos (GRU) · Congonhas (CGH) · Viracopos (VCP)
- Flight time
- ~28.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~18,378 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Cathay Pacific
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Sep–Nov
MNL → SAO, answered.
How far in advance should I book MNL → 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We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 Manila to São Paulo?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Cathay Pacific. 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 August 24). 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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