Route brief · SAO → TYO
São Paulo → Tokyo
$1,305
−17% vs typical
seasonal median $1,570 · difference $265
Apr 1 '27 – Apr 23 '27 · 22 nights
LATAM1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $1,344–$1,632
- Board rank
- Stronger than 45%
- Route sample
- 11 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefTYOTokyoNeon canyons, 3am ramen, and the world’s most polite chaos. The yen is kind to visitors right now.Best windowMar–May · Oct–NovAirportsNarita (NRT) · Haneda (HND)All routes into TokyoWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 11 months, Apr is the cheapest for SAO → TYO. Best time to be there: Mar–May · Oct–Nov.
Fares bottom out in April around $1,305 and peak in September near $1,942 — a $637 spread across the 11 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 24.5 hours outbound, on a 22-night trip — ticketed under LATAM, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $1,305 for 18,537 km each way, that works out to about $35 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $40 typical of ultra-long-haul fares here. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 18 routes of similar length we watch out of São Paulo, where the middle fare is $1,736.
The 8 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 5% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $1,596 then versus $1,673 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 $1,305, on Aug 19.
- Fri, Sep 4$1,942
- Thu, Oct 1$1,632
- Tue, Nov 3$1,344
- Mon, Nov 30$1,458
- Sat, Dec 19$1,975
- Sun, Dec 20$1,770
- Sun, Dec 27$1,714
- Tue, Dec 29$1,588
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.
Cheapest in Apr · around $1,305
17% below the $1,570 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · São Paulo → Tokyo · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Guarulhos (GRU) · Congonhas (CGH) · Viracopos (VCP) ↔ Narita (NRT) · Haneda (HND)
- Flight time
- ~24.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~18,537 km each way
- Typical price
- $1,570 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- LATAM
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Oct–Nov
SAO → TYO, answered.
Is $1,305 a good price for São Paulo to Tokyo?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $1,570 round-trip and this fare is 17% under it, about $265. 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 Tokyo?
Across 11 months of cached-fare history, Apr comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Tokyo are Mar–May · Oct–Nov — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book SAO → Tokyo?
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 11 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 Tokyo?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under LATAM. Nonstop options exist on many dates at higher prices — check the live search for your exact dates.
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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