Route brief · WAS → SAO
Washington → São Paulo
$757
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Oct 27 – Nov 2 · 6 nights
Air Canada1 stop
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefSAOSão PauloNot pretty and not trying to be — the food, the music and the fares out of here beat Rio on every count.Best windowMar–May · Sep–NovAirportsGuarulhos (GRU) · Congonhas (CGH) · Viracopos (VCP)All routes into São PauloWhen this route gets cheap.
Best time to be in São Paulo: Mar–May · Sep–Nov. Fare history for this route is still thin, so we make no seasonal call yet.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 12 hours outbound, on a 6-night trip — ticketed under Air Canada, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $757 for 7,631 km each way, that works out to about $50 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 17 departure cities we track at a similar distance from São Paulo, this fare ranks 9th — 2.1× the $357 we hold from Boston. For context, the middle fare among the 33 routes of similar length we watch out of Washington is $672. We have 1 month 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 2 days we hold a cached fare for
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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
- Dulles (IAD) · Reagan National (DCA) · Baltimore (BWI) ↔ Guarulhos (GRU) · Congonhas (CGH) · Viracopos (VCP)
- Flight time
- ~12 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~7,631 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Air Canada
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Sep–Nov
WAS → SAO, answered.
How far in advance should I book WAS → São Paulo?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 Washington to São Paulo?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Air Canada. 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 August 30). 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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