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 → MAD
São Paulo to Madrid
Best fare, round trip
$629
−30%
below its usual $895
you keep $266
GreatFound
- Depart
- Mon 22 Mar
- Return
- Mon 5 Apr
- Stay
- 14 nights
- Flight
- Nonstop · 10h
- Airline
Air China
Most of this route’s monthly lows fall between $700 and $1,118. The drop beats 78% of measured fares on the board, over 10 observed months.
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
SpainMadridDinner at 10pm, museums at world-class density, and Iberia fare sales that border on typos.Best windowApr–Jun · Sep–OctAirportsBarajas (MAD)Every route into MadridFare seasonality
When this route gets cheap.
Fares bottom out in March around $629 and peak in December near $1,296, 106% dearer, across the 10 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Air China nonstop and takes about 10 hours outbound, on a 14-night trip. At $629 for 8,385 km each way, that works out to about $38 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 per 1,000 km typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 13 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Madrid, this fare ranks 8th — 1.7× the $376 we hold from Miami. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 38 routes of similar length we watch out of São Paulo, where the middle fare is $949. The best time to be in Madrid: Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Day-level prices for the next 4 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 4% higher than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $820 then versus $852 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 $629, on 22 Mar '27.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 17 of 109 days priced, from 95 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
October 2026
November 2026
1234Thursday 5 November: $775. Compare fares from this day.6789Tuesday 10 November: $732. Compare fares from this day.Wednesday 11 November: $717. Compare fares from this day.12131415Monday 16 November: $717. Compare fares from this day.17Wednesday 18 November: $830. Compare fares from this day.192021Sunday 22 November: $716. Compare fares from this day.2324Wednesday 25 November: $769. Compare fares from this day.Thursday 26 November: $709. Compare fares from this day.27282930
December 2026
12345678910111213141516171819202122Wednesday 23 December: $1.4k. Compare fares from this day.24252627Monday 28 December: $1.3k. Compare fares from this day.Tuesday 29 December: $1.3k. Compare fares from this day.3031
January 2027
Cached fares · checked 15 Oct 2026
Cheapest in Mar, around $629
30% below the $895 typical fare
$875Oct, around the usual price. Compare October fares.$700Nov, below the usual price. Compare November fares.$1296Dec, above the usual price. Compare December fares.$1118Jan ’27, above the usual price. Compare January fares.$711Feb, below the usual price. Compare February fares.$629Mar, the cheapest month. Compare March fares.$783Apr, below the usual price. Compare April fares.$692May, below the usual price. Compare May fares.$923Jun, around the usual price. Compare June fares.$893Sep, around the usual price. Compare September fares.$1167Oct, above the usual price. Compare October fares.
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Cheapest round-trip fare found each month, São Paulo to Madrid, from cached prices.
Route facts
- Airports
- Guarulhos (GRU) · Congonhas (CGH) · Viracopos (VCP) ↔ Barajas (MAD)
- Flight time
- ≈10 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈8,385 km each way
- Typical price
- $895 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Air China
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
Good to know
SAO → MAD, answered.
Is $629 a good price for São Paulo to Madrid?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $895 round-trip. At $629 you're 30% below that, which we rate great for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from São Paulo to Madrid?
Across 10 months of cached-fare history, Mar comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Madrid are Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book SAO → Madrid?
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, Mar 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 Madrid?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Air China). The outbound leg runs around 10 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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