Route brief · SAO → PEK
São Paulo → Beijing
$1,137
−26% vs typical
seasonal median $1,540 · difference $403
Nov 9 – Nov 26 · 17 nights
LATAM Airlines Brasil1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $1,516–$1,540
- Board rank
- Stronger than 71%
- Route sample
- 4 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefPEKBeijingImperial scale — the Forbidden City, the Wall an hour north, and a visa-free transit window worth checking.Best windowSep–Oct · Apr–MayAirportsCapital (PEK) · Daxing (PKX)All routes into BeijingWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 4 months, Nov is the cheapest for SAO → PEK. Best time to be there: Sep–Oct · Apr–May.
Fares bottom out in November around $1,137 and peak in January near $1,710 — a $573 spread across the 4 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 21.5 hours outbound, on a 17-night trip — ticketed under LATAM Airlines Brasil, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $1,137 for 17,597 km each way, that works out to about $32 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $40 typical of ultra-long-haul fares here. It is also the 3rd cheapest of the 20 routes of similar length we watch out of São Paulo.
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 34% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $1,710 then versus $1,137 now, across 7 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 $1,026, on Oct 1.
These are the only days we have a cached price for on this route so far — not the only days it flies. The search above covers any date.
Cheapest in Nov · around $1,137
26% below the $1,540 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · São Paulo → Beijing · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Guarulhos (GRU) · Congonhas (CGH) · Viracopos (VCP) ↔ Capital (PEK) · Daxing (PKX)
- Flight time
- ~21.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~17,597 km each way
- Typical price
- $1,540 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- LATAM Airlines Brasil
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Sep–Oct · Apr–May
SAO → PEK, answered.
Is $1,137 a good price for São Paulo to Beijing?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $1,540 round-trip. At $1,137 you're 26% below that, saving about $403, which we rate good for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from São Paulo to Beijing?
Across 4 months of cached-fare history, Nov comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Beijing are Sep–Oct · Apr–May — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book SAO → Beijing?
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 4 months of cached fares, Nov comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from São Paulo to Beijing?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under LATAM Airlines Brasil. 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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