Route brief · SYD → LIM
Sydney → Lima
$1,578
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Sep 9 – Sep 16 · 7 nights
American2 stops
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefLIMLimaThe best restaurant city in South America, on a cliff above the Pacific — and the way to Cusco.Best windowDec–AprAirportsJorge Chávez (LIM)All routes into LimaWhen this route gets cheap.
Best time to be in Lima: Dec–Apr. Fare history for this route is still thin, so we make no seasonal call yet.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 2 stops and takes about 24.5 hours outbound, on a 7-night trip — ticketed under American, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $1,578 for 12,800 km each way, that works out to about $62 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $40 typical of ultra-long-haul fares here. Across the 20 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Lima, this fare ranks 19th — 2.2× the $714 we hold from Copenhagen. For context, the middle fare among the 30 routes of similar length we watch out of Sydney is $1,419. We have 3 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.
The 7 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 23% higher than when tracking began on Aug 17 — $1,640 then versus $2,025 now, across 3 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 $1,572, on Oct 13.
- Wed, Sep 9$1,578
- Fri, Sep 25$1,737
- Sat, Sep 26$2,129
- Tue, Nov 10$1,597
- Mon, Nov 16$2,025
- Sun, Dec 20$2,519
- Mon, Dec 21$2,519
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.
Route facts
- Airports
- Kingsford Smith (SYD) ↔ Jorge Chávez (LIM)
- Flight time
- ~24.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~12,800 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- American
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Dec–Apr
SYD → LIM, answered.
How far in advance should I book SYD → Lima?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Sydney to Lima?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under American. 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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