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 → IST
São Paulo to Istanbul
Best fare, round trip
$903
−16%
below its usual $1,070
you keep $167
Found
- Depart
- Fri 12 Feb
- Return
- Wed 24 Feb
- Stay
- 12 nights
- Flight
- 3 stops · 16.5h
- Airline
Royal Air Maroc
Most of this route’s monthly lows fall between $1,033 and $1,234. The drop beats 44% of measured fares on the board, over 10 observed months.
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
TürkiyeIstanbulTwo continents, one skyline of minarets. Turkish Airlines’ mega-hub means constant fare battles.Best windowApr–May · Sep–OctAirportsIstanbul (IST) · Sabiha Gökçen (SAW)Every route into IstanbulFare seasonality
When this route gets cheap.
Fares bottom out in February around $903 and peak in September near $1,466, 62% dearer, across the 10 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 3 stops and takes about 16.5 hours outbound, on a 12-night trip — ticketed under Royal Air Maroc, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $903 for 10,583 km each way, that works out to about $43 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $44 per 1,000 km typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 19 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Istanbul, this fare ranks 17th — 2.3× the $390 we hold from Seoul. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 44 routes of similar length we watch out of São Paulo, where the middle fare is $1,023. The best time to be in Istanbul: Apr–May · Sep–Oct.
Cheapest day in the next 4 months: 3 Nov, $968
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 9% lower than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $1,265 then versus $1,151 now, across 23 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 $903, on 12 Feb '27.
October 2026
Saturday 17 October: $1.3k, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Sunday 18 October: $1.4k, above the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Monday 19 October: $1.3k, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Tuesday 20 October: $1.2k, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Wednesday 21 October: $1.3k, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Thursday 22 October: $1.3k, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Friday 23 October: $1.1k, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.24Sunday 25 October: $1.1k, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.26Tuesday 27 October: $1.3k, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Wednesday 28 October: $1.1k, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.293031
November 2026
1Monday 2 November: $1.1k, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Tuesday 3 November: $968, the cheapest day in view. Compare fares from this day.4Thursday 5 November: $1.1k, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.6Saturday 7 November: $1k, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.8910Wednesday 11 November: $1.1k, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.1213Saturday 14 November: $1.1k, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.15Monday 16 November: $992, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.17181920Saturday 21 November: $1.2k, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.2223242526272829Monday 30 November: $1.1k, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.
December 2026
Tuesday 1 December: $1.1k, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Wednesday 2 December: $1.1k, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Thursday 3 December: $1.1k, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Friday 4 December: $1.1k, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Saturday 5 December: $2.9k, above the usual price. Compare fares from this day.6Monday 7 December: $1.3k, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.89101112131415161718Saturday 19 December: $1.6k, above the usual price. Compare fares from this day.2021Tuesday 22 December: $1.5k, above the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Wednesday 23 December: $1.5k, above the usual price. Compare fares from this day.2425262728293031
January 2027
CheapestBelow usualUsualAbove usualCached fares · checked 17 Oct 2026 · bands from 145 tracked fares
Cheapest in Feb, around $903
16% below the $1,070 typical fare
$1056Oct, around the usual price. Compare October fares.$968Nov, below the usual price. Compare November fares.$1070Dec, around the usual price. Compare December fares.$1166Jan ’27, above the usual price. Compare January fares.$903Feb, the cheapest month. Compare February fares.$1033Mar, around the usual price. Compare March fares.$1234Apr, above the usual price. Compare April fares.$1320May, above the usual price. Compare May fares.$1069Jun, around the usual price. Compare June fares.$1466Sep, above the usual price. Compare September fares.
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Cheapest round-trip fare found each month, São Paulo to Istanbul, from cached prices.
Route facts
- Airports
- Guarulhos (GRU) · Congonhas (CGH) · Viracopos (VCP) ↔ Istanbul (IST) · Sabiha Gökçen (SAW)
- Flight time
- ≈16.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈10,583 km each way
- Typical price
- $1,070 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Royal Air Maroc
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–May · Sep–Oct
Good to know
SAO → IST, answered.
Is $903 a good price for São Paulo to Istanbul?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $1,070 round-trip and this fare is 16% under it. We do not call a drop notable until 20%, so this is an ordinary price for the route rather than a reason to hurry.
What is the cheapest month to fly from São Paulo to Istanbul?
Across 10 months of cached-fare history, Feb comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Istanbul are Apr–May · Sep–Oct — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book SAO → Istanbul?
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 10 months of cached fares, Feb comes out lowest on this route. Our guide Why flight prices change covers what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from São Paulo to Istanbul?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Royal Air Maroc. 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 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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