Route brief · MIA → RIO
Miami → Rio de Janeiro
$593
−19% vs typical
seasonal median $735 · difference $142
Sep 12 – Sep 15 · 3 nights
GOL1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $670–$734
- Board rank
- Stronger than 52%
- Route sample
- 4 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 4 months, Sep is the cheapest for MIA → RIO. Best time to be there: Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in September around $506 and peak in October near $854 — a $348 spread across the 4 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 9.5 hours outbound, on a 3-night trip — ticketed under GOL, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $593 for 6,722 km each way, that works out to about $44 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 9 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Rio de Janeiro, this fare ranks 4th — 35% above the $439 from Boston. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 29 routes of similar length we watch out of Miami, where the middle fare is $710.
Day-level prices for the next 4 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 14% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $704 then versus $806 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 $506, on Sep 1.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 10 of 122 days priced, from 32 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
October 2026
Cheapest in Sep · around $506
31% below the $735 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Miami → Rio de Janeiro · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Miami (MIA) · Fort Lauderdale (FLL) ↔ Galeão (GIG) · Santos Dumont (SDU)
- Flight time
- ~9.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~6,722 km each way
- Typical price
- $735 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- GOL
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
MIA → RIO, answered.
Is $593 a good price for Miami to Rio de Janeiro?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $735 round-trip and this fare is 19% under it, about $142. 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 Miami to Rio de Janeiro?
Across 4 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 MIA → 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 4 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 Miami to Rio de Janeiro?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under GOL. 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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