Great1 stop · 12.5h
SAO to JNBSouth Africa
Johannesburg
$593
usually $885
−33%
Most monthly lows $771–$885. Cheaper than every other month on record (3).
Flights · SAO → FRA
São Paulo to Frankfurt
Best fare, round trip
$1,326
Too little price history on this route to compare — the fare is shown as found.
Found
- Depart
- Mon 28 Dec
- Return
- Mon 11 Jan
- Stay
- 14 nights
- Flight
- Nonstop · 11.5h
- Airline
Lufthansa
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
GermanyFrankfurtBanking towers and a river beach — mostly a place people change planes, which is exactly why fares through it are cheap.Best windowMay–SepAirportsFrankfurt (FRA) · Hahn (HHN)Every route into FrankfurtFare seasonality
When this route gets cheap.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Lufthansa nonstop and takes about 11.5 hours outbound, on a 14-night trip. At $1,326 for 9,819 km each way, that works out to about $68 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $44 per 1,000 km typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 17 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Frankfurt, this fare ranks 17th — 3.2× the $417 we hold from San Francisco. For context, the middle fare among the 47 routes of similar length we watch out of São Paulo is $989. 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. Fare history here is still too short to name a cheap season. The best time to be in Frankfurt: May–Sep.
The one day we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 19% higher than when tracking began on 17 Aug — $1,118 then versus $1,326 now, across 12 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 $895, on 16 Nov.
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.
Cached fares · checked 13 Oct 2026
We are still collecting this route's months — 1 month of cached prices so far, too few to chart.
Route facts
- Airports
- Guarulhos (GRU) · Congonhas (CGH) · Viracopos (VCP) ↔ Frankfurt (FRA) · Hahn (HHN)
- Flight time
- ≈11.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈9,819 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Lufthansa
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- May–Sep
Good to know
SAO → FRA, answered.
How far in advance should I book SAO → Frankfurt?
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. Our guide Why flight prices change covers the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from São Paulo to Frankfurt?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Lufthansa). The outbound leg runs around 11.5 hours.
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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