Rare2 stops · 12.5h
NYC to HNLUnited States
Honolulu
$410
usually $820
−50%
Most monthly lows $576–$946. Cheaper than every other month on record (8).
Flights · NYC → RIO
New York to Rio de Janeiro
Best fare, round trip
$487
−35%
below its usual $755
you keep $268
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- Depart
- Sat 14 Nov
- Return
- Fri 27 Nov
- Stay
- 13 nights
- Flight
- 1 stop · 12.5h
- Airline
Avianca
Most of this route’s monthly lows fall between $698 and $761. The drop beats 84% of measured fares on the board, over 7 observed months.
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
BrazilRio 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)Every route into Rio de JaneiroFare seasonality
When this route gets cheap.
Fares bottom out in October around $426 and peak in January near $761, 79% dearer, across the 7 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 12.5 hours outbound, on a 13-night trip — ticketed under Avianca, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $487 for 7,759 km each way, that works out to about $31 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 per 1,000 km typical of long-haul fares here. Of the 22 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Rio de Janeiro, this is the cheapest right now — 8% under the next one, Houston. 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 $594. The best time to be in Rio de Janeiro: Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Day-level prices for the next 4 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 1% lower than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $705 then versus $695 now, across 17 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 5 Nov.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 14 of 111 days priced, from 85 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
October 2026
1314151617181920212223242526Tuesday 27 October: $426. Compare fares from this day.Wednesday 28 October: $634. Compare fares from this day.293031
November 2026
12345678910Wednesday 11 November: $683. Compare fares from this day.1213Saturday 14 November: $487. Compare fares from this day.Sunday 15 November: $706. Compare fares from this day.161718192021Sunday 22 November: $850. Compare fares from this day.23242526272829Monday 30 November: $591. Compare fares from this day.
December 2026
1234Saturday 5 December: $602. Compare fares from this day.Sunday 6 December: $602. Compare fares from this day.78Wednesday 9 December: $866. Compare fares from this day.10111213141516171819202122Wednesday 23 December: $1.5k. Compare fares from this day.Thursday 24 December: $1.5k. Compare fares from this day.2526Sunday 27 December: $1.6k. Compare fares from this day.2829Wednesday 30 December: $1.2k. Compare fares from this day.31
January 2027
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Cached fares · checked 13 Oct 2026
Cheapest in Oct, around $426
44% below the $755 typical fare
$426Oct, the cheapest month. Compare October fares.$487Nov, below the usual price. Compare November fares.$602Dec, below the usual price. Compare December fares.$761Jan ’27, around the usual price. Compare January fares.$758Feb, around the usual price. Compare February fares.$756Apr, around the usual price. Compare April fares.$698May, below the usual price. Compare May fares.
CheapestBelow usualUsualAbove usualPress a month to compare its fares
Cheapest round-trip fare found each month, New York to Rio de Janeiro, from cached prices.
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
- $755 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Avianca
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
Good to know
NYC → RIO, answered.
Is $487 a good price for New York to Rio de Janeiro?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $755 round-trip. At $487 you're 35% below that, which we rate great for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from New York to Rio de Janeiro?
Across 7 months of cached-fare history, Oct 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 7 months of cached fares, Oct comes out lowest on this route. Our guide Why flight prices change covers 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. We hold no nonstop fare on this route right now, which does not mean none flies — search your exact dates to see what does.
Are these prices guaranteed?
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on 17 October). 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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