Route brief · SAO → HOU
São Paulo → Houston
$764
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Nov 3 – Nov 11 · 8 nights
Azul Airlines2 stops
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefHOUHoustonUnited’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)All routes into HoustonWhen this route gets cheap.
Best time to be in Houston: Mar–May · Oct–Nov. Fare history for this route is still thin, so we make no seasonal call yet.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 2 stops and takes about 13.5 hours outbound, on a 8-night trip — ticketed under Azul Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $764 for 7,890 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 18 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Houston, this fare ranks 7th — 8% above the $708 from Rome. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 29 routes of similar length we watch out of São Paulo, where the middle fare is $859. 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
- 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
- Azul Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Oct–Nov
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We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from São Paulo to Houston?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Azul Airlines. 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 24). 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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