Route brief · PAR → RIO
Paris → Rio de Janeiro
$874
−13% vs typical
seasonal median $1,010 · difference $136
Feb 20 '27 – Mar 8 '27 · 16 nights
Lufthansa2 stops
- Usual monthly lows
- $943–$1,059
- Board rank
- Stronger than 31%
- Route sample
- 10 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 10 months, Feb is the cheapest for PAR → RIO. Best time to be there: Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in February around $874 and peak in July near $1,348 — a $474 spread across the 10 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 2 stops and takes about 15 hours outbound, on a 16-night trip — ticketed under Lufthansa, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $874 for 9,167 km each way, that works out to about $48 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 30 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Rio de Janeiro, this fare ranks 15th — 2.0× the $439 we hold from Boston. For context, the middle fare among the 37 routes of similar length we watch out of Paris is $713.
Day-level prices for the next 3 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 10% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $1,201 then versus $1,080 now, across 8 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 $943, on Nov 30.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 14 of 93 days priced, from 48 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
Cheapest in Feb · around $874
13% below the $1,010 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Paris → Rio de Janeiro · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Charles de Gaulle (CDG) · Orly (ORY) ↔ Galeão (GIG) · Santos Dumont (SDU)
- Flight time
- ~15 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~9,167 km each way
- Typical price
- $1,010 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Lufthansa
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
PAR → RIO, answered.
Is $874 a good price for Paris to Rio de Janeiro?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $1,010 round-trip and this fare is 13% under it, about $136. 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 10 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 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 10 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 Paris to Rio de Janeiro?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Lufthansa. 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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