ExceptionalNonstop · 1.5h
PAR to VCEItaly
Venice
$38
usually $110
−65%
Most monthly lows $53–$112. Cheaper than every other month on record (7).
Flights · PAR → RIO
Paris to Rio de Janeiro
Best fare, round trip
$860
−18%
below its usual $1,050
you keep $190
Found
- Depart
- Wed 18 Nov
- Return
- Wed 25 Nov
- Stay
- 7 nights
- Flight
- 2 stops · 14h
- Airline
TAP Air Portugal
Most of this route’s monthly lows fall between $979 and $1,099. The drop beats 50% 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 November around $860 and peak in August near $1,170, 36% dearer, across the 7 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 2 stops and takes about 14 hours outbound, on a 7-night trip — ticketed under TAP Air Portugal, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $860 for 9,167 km each way, that works out to about $47 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $44 per 1,000 km typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 30 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Rio de Janeiro, this fare ranks 12th — 1.8× the $487 we hold from New York. For context, the middle fare among the 38 routes of similar length we watch out of Paris is $704. 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 8% higher than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $1,201 then versus $1,293 now, across 24 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 $840, on 18 Nov.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 21 of 107 days priced, from 104 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
October 2026
November 2026
December 2026
Tuesday 1 December: $923. Compare fares from this day.23Friday 4 December: $1.3k. Compare fares from this day.5678910111213Monday 14 December: $1.3k. Compare fares from this day.15161718Saturday 19 December: $2k. Compare fares from this day.20212223Thursday 24 December: $1.7k. Compare fares from this day.Friday 25 December: $1.7k. Compare fares from this day.26Sunday 27 December: $1.8k. Compare fares from this day.Monday 28 December: $1.7k. Compare fares from this day.Tuesday 29 December: $1.7k. Compare fares from this day.3031
January 2027
123Monday 4 January: $1.3k. Compare fares from this day.Tuesday 5 January: $1.2k. Compare fares from this day.6789Sunday 10 January: $2k. Compare fares from this day.11121314151617Monday 18 January: $1.1k. Compare fares from this day.19Wednesday 20 January: $1.1k. Compare fares from this day.2122232425262728293031
Cached fares · checked 17 Oct 2026
Cheapest in Nov, around $860
18% below the $1,050 typical fare
$1073Oct, around the usual price. Compare October fares.$860Nov, the cheapest month. Compare November fares.$923Dec, below the usual price. Compare December fares.$1099Jan ’27, around the usual price. Compare January fares.$979Feb, below the usual price. Compare February fares.$1048Apr, around the usual price. Compare April fares.$1170Aug, above the usual price. Compare August fares.
CheapestBelow usualUsualAbove usualPress a month to compare its fares
Cheapest round-trip fare found each month, Paris to Rio de Janeiro, from cached prices.
Route facts
- Airports
- Charles de Gaulle (CDG) · Orly (ORY) ↔ Galeão (GIG) · Santos Dumont (SDU)
- Flight time
- ≈14 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈9,167 km each way
- Typical price
- $1,050 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- TAP Air Portugal
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
Good to know
PAR → RIO, answered.
Is $860 a good price for Paris to Rio de Janeiro?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $1,050 round-trip and this fare is 18% under it. 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 Paris to Rio de Janeiro?
Across 7 months of cached-fare history, Nov 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 PAR → 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, Nov comes out lowest on this route. Our guide Why flight prices change covers what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Paris to Rio de Janeiro?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under TAP Air Portugal. 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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