Route brief · SAO → RIO
São Paulo → Rio de Janeiro
$75
−6% vs typical
seasonal median $80 · difference $5
Apr 30 '27 – May 2 '27 · 2 nights
Azul AirlinesNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $76–$93
- Board rank
- Stronger than 8%
- Route sample
- 9 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefRIORio de JaneiroBeaches with mountains growing out of them. Fares south swing hard — we catch the dips.Best windowApr–Jun · Sep–OctAirportsGaleão (GIG) · Santos Dumont (SDU)All routes into Rio de JaneiroWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 9 months, Apr is the cheapest for SAO → RIO. Best time to be there: Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in April around $75 and peak in September near $111 — a $36 spread across the 9 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Azul Airlines nonstop and takes about 1 hours outbound, on a 2-night trip.
Cheapest day in the next 3 months: Nov 18 · $112 (15% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 10% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $119 then versus $131 now, across 5 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 $70, on Oct 17.
September 2026
October 2026
Cheapest in Apr · around $75
6% below the $80 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · São Paulo → Rio de Janeiro · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Guarulhos (GRU) · Congonhas (CGH) · Viracopos (VCP) ↔ Galeão (GIG) · Santos Dumont (SDU)
- Flight time
- ~1 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~361 km each way
- Typical price
- $80 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Azul Airlines
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
SAO → RIO, answered.
Is $75 a good price for São Paulo to Rio de Janeiro?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $80 round-trip and this fare is 6% under it, about $5. 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 Rio de Janeiro?
Across 9 months of cached-fare history, Apr comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Rio de Janeiro are Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book SAO → Rio de Janeiro?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 9 months of cached fares, Apr comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from São Paulo to Rio de Janeiro?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Azul Airlines). The outbound leg runs around 1 hours.
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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