
SAO to JNBSouth Africa
Johannesburg
$593
usually $885
−33%
Most monthly lows $771–$885. Cheaper than every other month on record (3).
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Flights · SAO → SCL
Best fare, round trip
$217
−21%
below its usual $275
you keep $58
Most of this route’s monthly lows fall between $227 and $320. The drop beats 58% of measured fares on the board, over 9 observed months.
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
ChileSantiagoAndes on the skyline, vineyards an hour out, and the longest country in the world starting at the door.Best windowOct–AprAirportsArturo Merino Benítez (SCL)Every route into SantiagoFare seasonality
Fares bottom out in October around $211 and peak in September near $635, 201% dearer, across the 9 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Sky Airline nonstop and takes about 4.5 hours outbound, on a 7-night trip. At $217 for 2,585 km each way, that works out to about $42 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $43 per 1,000 km typical of medium-haul fares here. The best time to be in Santiago: Oct–Apr.
Cheapest day in the next 4 months: 19 Oct, $211
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 8% higher than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $299 then versus $322 now, across 18 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 $171, on 11 Nov.
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Cheapest in Oct, around $211
23% below the $275 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found each month, São Paulo to Santiago, from cached prices.
Route facts
Good to know
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $275 round-trip. At $217 you're 21% below that, which we rate good for this route.
Across 9 months of cached-fare history, Oct comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Santiago are Oct–Apr — when those overlap, that's your window.
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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, Oct comes out lowest on this route. Our guide Why flight prices change covers what does move a fare.
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Sky Airline). The outbound leg runs around 4.5 hours.
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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