Route brief · SAO → MNL
São Paulo → Manila
$2,383
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Dec 22 – Jan 2 '27 · 11 nights
Ethiopian1 stop
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefMNLManilaChaotic, warm and mostly a gateway — the islands worth the trip are a cheap domestic hop away.Best windowDec–AprAirportsNinoy Aquino (MNL) · Clark (CRK)All routes into ManilaWhen this route gets cheap.
Best time to be in Manila: Dec–Apr. Fare history for this route is still thin, so we make no seasonal call yet.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 26 hours outbound, on a 11-night trip — ticketed under Ethiopian, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $2,383 for 18,378 km each way, that works out to about $65 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $40 typical of ultra-long-haul fares here. Across the 3 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Manila, this fare ranks 3rd — 2.2× the $1,099 we hold from Miami. For context, the middle fare among the 18 routes of similar length we watch out of São Paulo is $1,736. We have 1 month of cached prices for this route so far — not enough to call a fare cheap or expensive, so we publish the price without a percentage.
The one day we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 7% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $1,446 then versus $1,549 now, across 3 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 $1,446, on Aug 16.
These are the only days we have a cached price for on this route so far — not the only days it flies. The search above covers any date.
Route facts
- Airports
- Guarulhos (GRU) · Congonhas (CGH) · Viracopos (VCP) ↔ Ninoy Aquino (MNL) · Clark (CRK)
- Flight time
- ~26 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~18,378 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Ethiopian
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Dec–Apr
SAO → MNL, answered.
How far in advance should I book SAO → Manila?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from São Paulo to Manila?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Ethiopian. 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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