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 → HOU
São Paulo to Houston
Best fare, round trip
$1,485
Too little price history on this route to compare — the fare is shown as found.
Found
- Depart
- Sun 20 Dec
- Return
- Sat 2 Jan
- Stay
- 13 nights
- Flight
- 2 stops · 13.5h
- Airline
Copa Airlines
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
United StatesHoustonUnited’s Latin America gateway, the best Vietnamese food in the country, and NASA on the edge of town.Best windowMar–May · Oct–NovAirportsBush (IAH) · Hobby (HOU)Every route into HoustonFare seasonality
When this route gets cheap.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 2 stops and takes about 13.5 hours outbound, on a 13-night trip — ticketed under Copa Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $1,485 for 7,890 km each way, that works out to about $94 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $44 per 1,000 km typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 18 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Houston, this fare ranks 18th — 2.3× the $641 we hold from Milan. For context, the middle fare among the 31 routes of similar length we watch out of São Paulo is $899. 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 Houston: Mar–May · Oct–Nov.
The 2 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 67% higher than when tracking began on 9 Sep — $906 then versus $1,513 now, across 6 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 $893, on 7 Oct.
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 15 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) ↔ Bush (IAH) · Hobby (HOU)
- Flight time
- ≈13.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈7,890 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Copa Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Oct–Nov
Good to know
SAO → HOU, answered.
How far in advance should I book SAO → Houston?
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 Houston?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Copa Airlines. 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 15 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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