
SAO to JNBSouth Africa
Johannesburg
$593
usually $885
−33%
Most monthly lows $771–$885. Cheaper than every other month on record (3).
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Best fare, round trip
$643
−16%
below its usual $770
you keep $127
Most of this route’s monthly lows fall between $721 and $940. The drop beats 44% of measured fares on the board, over 11 observed months.
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
PortugalLisbonTiled hills, custard tarts, Atlantic light — TAP’s hub wars keep this Europe’s cheapest gateway.Best windowMar–Jun · Sep–OctAirportsHumberto Delgado (LIS)Every route into LisbonFare seasonality
Fares bottom out in November around $643 and peak in January near $1,000, 56% dearer, across the 11 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Azul Airlines nonstop and takes about 10 hours outbound, on a 8-night trip. At $643 for 7,949 km each way, that works out to about $40 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 per 1,000 km typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 11 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Lisbon, this fare ranks 7th — 50% above the $428 from Abu Dhabi. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 31 routes of similar length we watch out of São Paulo, where the middle fare is $899. The best time to be in Lisbon: Mar–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Cheapest day in the next 4 months: 13 Nov, $643
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 31% higher than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $795 then versus $1,042 now, across 18 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 $608, on 23 Oct.
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Cheapest in Nov, around $643
16% below the $770 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found each month, São Paulo to Lisbon, from cached prices.
Route facts
Good to know
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $770 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.
Across 11 months of cached-fare history, Nov comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Lisbon are Mar–Jun · Sep–Oct — when those overlap, that's your window.
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 11 months of cached fares, Nov comes out lowest on this route. Our guide Why flight prices change covers what does move a fare.
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Azul Airlines). The outbound leg runs around 10 hours.
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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