Route brief · NYC → RIO
New York → Rio de Janeiro
$564
−18% vs typical
seasonal median $685 · difference $121
Feb 21 '27 – Feb 27 '27 · 6 nights
Avianca1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $641–$701
- Board rank
- Stronger than 49%
- Route sample
- 5 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 5 months, Feb is the cheapest for NYC → RIO. Best time to be there: Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in February around $564 and peak in October near $783 — a $219 spread across the 5 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 12.5 hours outbound, on a 6-night trip — ticketed under Avianca, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $564 for 7,759 km each way, that works out to about $36 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 22 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Rio de Janeiro, this fare ranks 3rd — 28% above the $439 from Boston. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 35 routes of similar length we watch out of New York, where the middle fare is $584.
Day-level prices for the next 4 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is unchanged since tracking began on Aug 8 — $705 then versus $705 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 $346, on Nov 5.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 11 of 122 days priced, from 48 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
October 2026
December 2026
Cheapest in Feb · around $564
18% below the $685 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · New York → Rio de Janeiro · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- JFK · Newark (EWR) · LaGuardia (LGA) ↔ Galeão (GIG) · Santos Dumont (SDU)
- Flight time
- ~12.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~7,759 km each way
- Typical price
- $685 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Avianca
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
NYC → RIO, answered.
Is $564 a good price for New York to Rio de Janeiro?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $685 round-trip and this fare is 18% under it, about $121. 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 New York to Rio de Janeiro?
Across 5 months of cached-fare history, Feb 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 NYC → 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 5 months of cached fares, Feb comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from New York to Rio de Janeiro?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Avianca. 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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