Route brief · SFO → SAO
San Francisco → São Paulo
$870
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Feb 1 '27 – Feb 18 '27 · 17 nights
United1 stop
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefSAOSão PauloNot pretty and not trying to be — the food, the music and the fares out of here beat Rio on every count.Best windowMar–May · Sep–NovAirportsGuarulhos (GRU) · Congonhas (CGH) · Viracopos (VCP)All routes into São PauloWhen this route gets cheap.
Best time to be in São Paulo: Mar–May · Sep–Nov. Fare history for this route is still thin, so we make no seasonal call yet.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 15 hours outbound, on a 17-night trip — ticketed under United, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $870 for 10,434 km each way, that works out to about $42 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 28 departure cities we track at a similar distance from São Paulo, this fare ranks 15th — 1.7× the $502 we hold from Los Angeles. For context, the middle fare among the 49 routes of similar length we watch out of San Francisco is $796. We have 1 month of cached prices for this route so far — not enough to call a fare cheap or expensive, so we publish the price without a percentage.
Route facts
- Airports
- SFO · Oakland (OAK) · San José (SJC) ↔ Guarulhos (GRU) · Congonhas (CGH) · Viracopos (VCP)
- Flight time
- ~15 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~10,434 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- United
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Sep–Nov
SF → SAO, answered.
How far in advance should I book SF → São Paulo?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from San Francisco to São Paulo?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under United. 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 August 16). 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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