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 → KIX
São Paulo to Osaka
Best fare, round trip
$1,338
Too little price history on this route to compare — the fare is shown as found.
Found
- Depart
- Mon 24 May
- Return
- Tue 8 Jun
- Stay
- 15 nights
- Flight
- 2 stops · 25.5h
- Airline
LATAM
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
JapanOsakaJapan with the volume up — street food, blunt humour, and Kyoto and Nara both under an hour by train.Best windowMar–May · Oct–NovAirportsKansai (KIX) · Itami (ITM)Every route into OsakaFare seasonality
When this route gets cheap.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 2 stops and takes about 25.5 hours outbound, on a 15-night trip — ticketed under LATAM, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $1,338 for 18,791 km each way, that works out to about $36 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $42 per 1,000 km typical of ultra-long-haul fares here. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 17 routes of similar length we watch out of São Paulo, where the middle fare is $1,538. 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 Osaka: Mar–May · Oct–Nov.
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) ↔ Kansai (KIX) · Itami (ITM)
- Flight time
- ≈25.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈18,791 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- LATAM
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Oct–Nov
Good to know
SAO → KIX, answered.
How far in advance should I book SAO → Osaka?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 Osaka?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under LATAM. 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 9 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.
Next step
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