Route brief · SHA → RIO
Shanghai → Rio de Janeiro
$1,353
−18% vs typical
seasonal median $1,650 · difference $297
Jan 13 '27 – Jan 29 '27 · 16 nights
ANA2 stops
- Usual monthly lows
- $1,366–$1,681
- Board rank
- Stronger than 49%
- Route sample
- 5 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 5 months, Jan is the cheapest for SHA → RIO. Best time to be there: Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in January around $1,353 and peak in November near $1,701 — a $348 spread across the 5 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 2 stops and takes about 25 hours outbound, on a 16-night trip — ticketed under ANA, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $1,353 for 18,238 km each way, that works out to about $37 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $40 typical of ultra-long-haul fares here. Of the 10 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Rio de Janeiro, this is the cheapest right now — though Seoul is within a few dollars. It is also the 2nd cheapest of the 11 routes of similar length we watch out of Shanghai.
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 4% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $1,707 then versus $1,646 now, across 6 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 $1,286, on Nov 9.
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 Jan · around $1,353
18% below the $1,650 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Shanghai → Rio de Janeiro · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Pudong (PVG) · Hongqiao (SHA) ↔ Galeão (GIG) · Santos Dumont (SDU)
- Flight time
- ~25 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~18,238 km each way
- Typical price
- $1,650 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- ANA
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
SHA → RIO, answered.
Is $1,353 a good price for Shanghai to Rio de Janeiro?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $1,650 round-trip and this fare is 18% under it, about $297. 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 Shanghai to Rio de Janeiro?
Across 5 months of cached-fare history, Jan 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 SHA → 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 5 months of cached fares, Jan comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Shanghai to Rio de Janeiro?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under ANA. 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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