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 → LIM
São Paulo to Lima
Best fare, round trip
$255
−12%
below its usual $290
you keep $35
Found
- Depart
- Wed 2 Dec
- Return
- Wed 9 Dec
- Stay
- 7 nights
- Flight
- Nonstop · 5h
- Airline
Sky Airline
Most of this route’s monthly lows fall between $255 and $347. The drop beats 29% of measured fares on the board, over 10 observed months.
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
PeruLimaThe best restaurant city in South America, on a cliff above the Pacific — and the way to Cusco.Best windowDec–AprAirportsJorge Chávez (LIM)Every route into LimaFare seasonality
When this route gets cheap.
Fares bottom out in January around $245 and peak in October near $625, 155% dearer, across the 10 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Sky Airline nonstop and takes about 5 hours outbound, on a 7-night trip. At $255 for 3,454 km each way, that works out to about $37 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $43 per 1,000 km typical of medium-haul fares here. Of the 3 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Lima, this is the cheapest right now — 19% under the next one, Miami. The best time to be in Lima: Dec–Apr.
Day-level prices for the next 4 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 36% higher than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $325 then versus $441 now, across 19 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 $228, on 20 Oct.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 19 of 109 days priced, from 124 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
October 2026
November 2026
1Monday 2 November: $452. Compare fares from this day.Tuesday 3 November: $291. Compare fares from this day.45Friday 6 November: $500. Compare fares from this day.78910Wednesday 11 November: $453. Compare fares from this day.1213Saturday 14 November: $508. Compare fares from this day.15Monday 16 November: $453. Compare fares from this day.1718Thursday 19 November: $354. Compare fares from this day.20212223Tuesday 24 November: $347. Compare fares from this day.252627282930
December 2026
1Wednesday 2 December: $255. Compare fares from this day.Thursday 3 December: $454. Compare fares from this day.4Saturday 5 December: $401. Compare fares from this day.67891011121314151617181920212223Thursday 24 December: $684. Compare fares from this day.252627Monday 28 December: $599. Compare fares from this day.293031
January 2027
123456789101112131415161718192021222324Monday 25 January: $245. Compare fares from this day.262728293031
Cached fares · checked 15 Oct 2026
Cheapest in Jan, around $245
16% below the $290 typical fare
$282Oct, around the usual price. Compare October fares.$291Nov, around the usual price. Compare November fares.$255Dec, below the usual price. Compare December fares.$245Jan ’27, the cheapest month. Compare January fares.$255Feb, below the usual price. Compare February fares.$255Mar, below the usual price. Compare March fares.$347Apr, above the usual price. Compare April fares.$337May, above the usual price. Compare May fares.$533Jul, above the usual price. Compare July fares.$625Oct, above the usual price. Compare October fares.
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Cheapest round-trip fare found each month, São Paulo to Lima, from cached prices.
Route facts
- Airports
- Guarulhos (GRU) · Congonhas (CGH) · Viracopos (VCP) ↔ Jorge Chávez (LIM)
- Flight time
- ≈5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈3,454 km each way
- Typical price
- $290 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Sky Airline
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Dec–Apr
Good to know
SAO → LIM, answered.
Is $255 a good price for São Paulo to Lima?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $290 round-trip and this fare is 12% 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 Lima?
Across 10 months of cached-fare history, Jan comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Lima are Dec–Apr — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book SAO → Lima?
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, Jan 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 Lima?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Sky Airline). The outbound leg runs around 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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