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 → NCE
São Paulo to Nice
Best fare, round trip
$1,203
Too little price history on this route to compare — the fare is shown as found.
Found
- Depart
- Wed 20 Jan
- Return
- Fri 29 Jan
- Stay
- 9 nights
- Flight
- 1 stop · 12.5h
- Airline
Iberia
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
FranceNiceThe Riviera’s front door — Monaco, Antibes and Cannes all on a local train that costs a few euros.Best windowMay–Jun · Sep–OctAirportsCôte d’Azur (NCE)Every route into NiceFare seasonality
When this route gets cheap.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 12.5 hours outbound, on a 9-night trip — ticketed under Iberia, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $1,203 for 9,277 km each way, that works out to about $65 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $44 per 1,000 km typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 13 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Nice, this fare ranks 13th — 1.7× the $706 we hold from Singapore. For context, the middle fare among the 43 routes of similar length we watch out of São Paulo is $986. 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. Fare history here is still too short to name a cheap season. The best time to be in Nice: May–Jun · Sep–Oct.
The one day we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 29% higher than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $978 then versus $1,257 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 $978, on 18 Oct.
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 10 Oct 2026
We are still collecting this route's months — 1 month of cached prices so far, too few to chart.
Route facts
- Airports
- Guarulhos (GRU) · Congonhas (CGH) · Viracopos (VCP) ↔ Côte d’Azur (NCE)
- Flight time
- ≈12.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈9,277 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Iberia
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- May–Jun · Sep–Oct
Good to know
SAO → NCE, answered.
How far in advance should I book SAO → Nice?
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. Our guide Why flight prices change covers the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from São Paulo to Nice?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Iberia. 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 12 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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