Route brief · SAO → LIS
São Paulo → Lisbon
$612
−3% vs typical
seasonal median $630 · difference $18
May 28 '27 – Jun 3 '27 · 6 nights
TAAG Angola1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $620–$933
- Board rank
- Stronger than 2%
- Route sample
- 11 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefLISLisbonTiled hills, custard tarts, Atlantic light — TAP’s hub wars keep this Europe’s cheapest gateway.Best windowMar–Jun · Sep–OctAirportsHumberto Delgado (LIS)All routes into LisbonWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 11 months, May is the cheapest for SAO → LIS. Best time to be there: Mar–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in May around $612 and peak in December near $1,069 — a $457 spread across the 11 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 16 hours outbound, on a 6-night trip — ticketed under TAAG Angola, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $612 for 7,949 km each way, that works out to about $38 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 11 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Lisbon, this fare ranks 4th — 1.9× the $326 we hold from Dubai. 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.
Day-level prices for the next 4 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 33% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $795 then versus $1,054 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 $613, on Oct 18.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 22 of 122 days priced, from 54 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
September 2026
Cheapest in May · around $612
3% below the $630 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · São Paulo → Lisbon · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Guarulhos (GRU) · Congonhas (CGH) · Viracopos (VCP) ↔ Humberto Delgado (LIS)
- Flight time
- ~16 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~7,949 km each way
- Typical price
- $630 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- TAAG Angola
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–Jun · Sep–Oct
SAO → LIS, answered.
Is $612 a good price for São Paulo to Lisbon?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $630 round-trip and this fare is 3% under it, about $18. 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 Lisbon?
Across 11 months of cached-fare history, May 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.
How far in advance should I book SAO → Lisbon?
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, May comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from São Paulo to Lisbon?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under TAAG Angola. 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 September 1). 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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