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 → PTY
São Paulo to Panama City
Best fare, round trip
$501
Too little price history on this route to compare — the fare is shown as found.
Found
- Depart
- Tue 9 Feb
- Return
- Tue 23 Feb
- Stay
- 14 nights
- Flight
- Nonstop · 7h
- Airline
Copa Airlines
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
PanamaPanama CitySkyline on one side, colonial casco on the other, and Copa’s hub making Latin America cheap to reach.Best windowDec–AprAirportsTocumen (PTY)Every route into Panama CityFare seasonality
When this route gets cheap.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Copa Airlines nonstop and takes about 7 hours outbound, on a 14-night trip. At $501 for 5,086 km each way, that works out to about $49 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $43 per 1,000 km typical of medium-haul fares here. Of the 4 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Panama City, this is the cheapest right now — 19% under the next one, Toronto. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 7 routes of similar length we watch out of São Paulo, where the middle fare is $501. We have 2 months 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 Panama City: Dec–Apr.
The 2 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 12% lower than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $618 then versus $545 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 $490, on 23 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 15 Oct 2026
We are still collecting this route's months — 2 months of cached prices so far, too few to chart.
Route facts
- Airports
- Guarulhos (GRU) · Congonhas (CGH) · Viracopos (VCP) ↔ Tocumen (PTY)
- Flight time
- ≈7 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈5,086 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Copa Airlines
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Dec–Apr
Good to know
SAO → PTY, answered.
How far in advance should I book SAO → Panama 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. Our guide Why flight prices change covers the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from São Paulo to Panama City?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Copa Airlines). The outbound leg runs around 7 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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