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 → MEX
São Paulo to Mexico City
Best fare, round trip
$609
−16%
below its usual $725
you keep $116
Found
- Depart
- Wed 4 Nov
- Return
- Thu 19 Nov
- Stay
- 15 nights
- Flight
- 1 stop · 11h
- Airline
Avianca
Most of this route’s monthly lows fall between $616 and $727. The drop beats 44% of measured fares on the board, over 4 observed months.
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
MexicoMexico CityAltitude, murals, and arguably the best food city in the hemisphere at street prices.Best windowMar–May · Oct–NovAirportsBenito Juárez (MEX) · Felipe Ángeles (NLU)Every route into Mexico CityFare seasonality
When this route gets cheap.
Fares bottom out in November around $594 and peak in October near $794, 34% dearer, across the 4 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 11 hours outbound, on a 15-night trip — ticketed under Avianca, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $609 for 7,431 km each way, that works out to about $41 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 per 1,000 km typical of long-haul fares here. Of the 9 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Mexico City, this is the cheapest right now — 18% under the next one, Madrid. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 21 routes of similar length we watch out of São Paulo, where the middle fare is $899. The best time to be in Mexico City: Mar–May · Oct–Nov.
The 7 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 3% higher than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $596 then versus $614 now, across 17 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 $565, on 29 Sep.
- Mon 19 Oct$836
- Sat 31 Oct$846
- Wed 4 Nov$609
- Fri 6 Nov$594lowest
- Tue 10 Nov$614
- Tue 24 Nov$609
- Wed 9 Dec$727
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.
Cached fares · checked 13 Oct 2026
Cheapest in Nov, around $594
18% below the $725 typical fare
$794Oct, above the usual price. Compare October fares.$594Nov, the cheapest month. Compare November fares.$727Dec, around the usual price. Compare December fares.$616Mar ’27, below the usual price. Compare March fares.
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Cheapest round-trip fare found each month, São Paulo to Mexico City, from cached prices.
Route facts
- Airports
- Guarulhos (GRU) · Congonhas (CGH) · Viracopos (VCP) ↔ Benito Juárez (MEX) · Felipe Ángeles (NLU)
- Flight time
- ≈11 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈7,431 km each way
- Typical price
- $725 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Avianca
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Oct–Nov
Good to know
SAO → MEX, answered.
Is $609 a good price for São Paulo to Mexico City?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $725 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.
What is the cheapest month to fly from São Paulo to Mexico City?
Across 4 months of cached-fare history, Nov comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Mexico City are Mar–May · Oct–Nov — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book SAO → Mexico City?
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 4 months of cached fares, Nov 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 Mexico City?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Avianca. We hold no nonstop fare on this route right now, which does not mean none flies — search your exact dates to see what does.
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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