R7 854 Find Cheap Flights to Rio de Janeiro

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Cheap Flights to Rio de Janeiro

 
Here are some of the best deals found on KAYAK recently from the most popular airlines for return flights to Rio de Janeiro that are departing in the next months. While these flights were available on KAYAK in the last 72 hours, prices and availability are subject to change and deals may expire.
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Recent return flight deals to Rio de Janeiro

Thu, Sep 25 - Sat, Oct 11
LATAM Airlines Logo
15:05 - 0:45JNB-GIG
14h 40m1 stop
LATAM Airlines Logo
19:35 - 12:15GIG-JNB
11h 40m1 stop
R12 685LATAM Airlines
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Thu, Sep 25 - Sat, Oct 11
LATAM Airlines Logo
15:05 - 9:35JNB-SDU
23h 30m1 stop
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6:45 - 12:15SDU-JNB
24h 30m1 stop
R12 826LATAM Airlines
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Sat, Sep 13 - Sun, Sep 21
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0:45 - 8:40JNB-SDU
36h 55m2 stops
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7:55 - 14:40SDU-JNB
25h 45m2 stops
R13 388
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Thu, Oct 9 - Tue, Oct 21
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15:30 - 8:40CPT-SDU
46h 10m2 stops
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17:25 - 14:00SDU-CPT
39h 35m2 stops
R15 830
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Mon, Dec 22 - Sun, Dec 28
British Airways Logo
19:35 - 6:55JNB-GIG
40h 20m1 stop
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18:00 - 10:25GIG-JNB
35h 25m1 stop
R19 801British Airways
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Mon, Dec 22 - Sun, Dec 28
British Airways Logo
22:00 - 6:55JNB-GIG
37h 55m1 stop
British Airways Logo
10:20 - 10:25GIG-JNB
43h 05m2 stops
R20 398British Airways
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Fri, Oct 10 - Sun, Nov 16
Emirates Logo
19:10 - 16:05JNB-GIG
25h 55m1 stop
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3:45 - 10:25GIG-JNB
25h 40m1 stop
R20 925Emirates
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Sun, Nov 9 - Sat, Nov 15
Emirates Logo
22:20 - 15:55JNB-GIG
46h 35m1 stop
Emirates Logo
3:45 - 10:25GIG-JNB
25h 40m1 stop
R20 978Emirates
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Mon, Sep 29 - Mon, Oct 6
Qatar Airways Logo
13:00 - 9:35CPT-SDU
49h 35m2 stops
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13:55 - 10:50SDU-CPT
39h 55m2 stops
R25 985Qatar Airways
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Fri, Sep 19 - Fri, Sep 26
Qatar Airways Logo
13:00 - 14:40CPT-GIG
30h 40m2 stops
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19:55 - 10:50GIG-CPT
33h 55m2 stops
R26 231Qatar Airways
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KAYAK's insights & trends for flights to Rio de Janeiro

Get data-powered insights and trends into flights to Rio de Janeiro to help you find the cheapest flights, the best time to fly and much more.

What is the cheapest month to fly to Rio de Janeiro?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for flights to Rio de Janeiro, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the median of all values for each month.

The cheapest month for flights to Rio de Janeiro is May, where tickets cost R13 388 on average for return flights. On the other hand, the most expensive months are December and July, where the average cost of tickets from South Africa is R18 659 and R18 413 respectively. For one-way flights, the best month to travel is May with an average price of R13 388.

How far in advance should I book a flight to Rio de Janeiro?

To calculate weekly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each week before departure over the last year for round-trip flights to Rio de Janeiro, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the average of all the values for each week.

To get a below average price, you should book around 3 weeks before departure, which saves you about 18% compared to booking last minute. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 11 weeks before departure.

Which is the cheapest airport to fly into in Rio de Janeiro?

Prices will differ depending on the departure airport, but generally, the cheapest airport to fly to in Rio de Janeiro is Rio de Janeiro Santos Dumont Airport (SDU), with an average flight price of R1 295.

Good to know – Book Cheap Rio de Janeiro Plane Tickets

Low seasonMay
Cheapest flightR7 854
Best time to beat the crowds (5% less expensive on average)
Most popular time to fly (7% more expensive on average)
Flight from Johannesburg to Rio de Janeiro Santos Dumont

When to book flights to Rio de Janeiro

Are your dates flexible? Find out the best times to travel to Rio de Janeiro based on our flight data from the last year. Discover the cheapest month and even day to fly.
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KAYAK looks at all historical flight data for each date to provide a predicted price for one-way trips or returns with a duration up to 40 days. The information is for flights to Rio de Janeiro based on your location. While we try to provide actual minimum prices for each date, some prices are predictions and actual prices may differ.

FAQs - booking Rio de Janeiro flights

  • Which Rio de Janeiro airport is closest to central Rio de Janeiro?

    Rio de Janeiro is served by 2 major airports. Rio de Janeiro Santos Dumont (2 km) is the closest to the centre of Rio de Janeiro and Rio de Janeiro-Galeao Airport is 13 km from the centre.

  • What is the cheapest day to fly to Rio de Janeiro?

    Based on KAYAK data, the cheapest day to fly to Rio de Janeiro is Tuesday where round-trip tickets can be as cheap as R14 989. On the other hand, the most expensive day to fly is Wednesday, where round-trip prices are R22 507 on average.

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights to Rio de Janeiro?

    KAYAK is a travel search engine. That means we look across the web to find the best prices we can find for our users. With over 2 billion flight queries processed yearly, we are able to display a variety of prices and options on flights to Rio de Janeiro.

  • How does KAYAK's flight Price Forecast tool help me choose the right time to buy my flight ticket to Rio de Janeiro?

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight to Rio de Janeiro is likely to change within 7 days, so travellers know whether to wait or book now.

  • What is the Hacker Fare option on flights to Rio de Janeiro?

    Hacker Fares allow you to combine one-way tickets in order to save you money over a traditional round-trip ticket. You could then fly to Rio de Janeiro with an airline and back with another airline.

  • What is KAYAK's "flexible dates" feature and why should I care when looking for a flight to Rio de Janeiro?

    Sometimes travel dates aren't set in stone. If your preferred travel dates have some wiggle room, flexible dates will show you all the options when flying to Rio de Janeiro up to 3 days before/after your preferred dates. You can then pick the flights that suit you best.

  • What is the cheapest time of day to fly to Rio de Janeiro?

    The cheapest time of day to fly to Rio de Janeiro is generally in the evening, when round-trip flights cost R858 on average. The most expensive time of day to fly to Rio de Janeiro is generally at night, which is peak travel time and where the average cost of a ticket is R1 207.

Top tips for finding cheap flights to Rio de Janeiro

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Prefer to fly direct to Rio de Janeiro?

 
Nonstop data is based off flight results for the next 60 days. Find direct flights from all airlines flying nonstop to Rio de Janeiro.
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Direct departures

South Africa to Rio de Janeiro

Monday

ANA, Aerolineas Argentinas, Aeromexico, +41 more

ANA, Aerolineas Argentinas, +42 more

Tuesday

ANA, Aerolineas Argentinas, Aeromexico, +44 more

ANA, Aerolineas Argentinas, +45 more

Wednesday

ANA, Aerolineas Argentinas, Aeromexico, +42 more

ANA, Aerolineas Argentinas, +43 more

Thursday

ANA, Aerolineas Argentinas, Aeromexico, +41 more

ANA, Aerolineas Argentinas, +42 more

Friday

ANA, Aerolineas Argentinas, Aeromexico, +44 more

ANA, Aerolineas Argentinas, +45 more

Saturday

ANA, Aerolineas Argentinas, Aeromexico, +42 more

ANA, Aerolineas Argentinas, +43 more

Sunday

ANA, Aerolineas Argentinas, Aeromexico, +43 more

ANA, Aerolineas Argentinas, +44 more

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Direct returns

Rio de Janeiro to South Africa

Monday

ANA, Aerolineas Argentinas, Aeromexico, +41 more

ANA, Aerolineas Argentinas, +42 more

Tuesday

ANA, Aerolineas Argentinas, Aeromexico, +44 more

ANA, Aerolineas Argentinas, +45 more

Wednesday

ANA, Aerolineas Argentinas, Aeromexico, +42 more

ANA, Aerolineas Argentinas, +43 more

Thursday

ANA, Aerolineas Argentinas, Aeromexico, +41 more

ANA, Aerolineas Argentinas, +42 more

Friday

ANA, Aerolineas Argentinas, Aeromexico, +44 more

ANA, Aerolineas Argentinas, +45 more

Saturday

ANA, Aerolineas Argentinas, Aeromexico, +42 more

ANA, Aerolineas Argentinas, +43 more

Sunday

ANA, Aerolineas Argentinas, Aeromexico, +43 more

ANA, Aerolineas Argentinas, +44 more

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Reviews of the top 5 airlines flying to Rio de Janeiro

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying to Rio de Janeiro. Airline scores are aggregated from all reviews left by passengers on KAYAK after flying with an airline from South Africa to Rio de Janeiro. KAYAK doesn’t show reviews that are older than 5 years. Learn how KAYAK collects reviews.
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EmiratesOverall score based on 3315 reviews
8,3Crew
8,0Comfort
7,9Food
8,2Entertainment
8,1Boarding
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Emirates need to improve the boarding process. There is no point calling for all First and Business Class passengers plus Platinum, Gold and Silver Skywards members at one time. Further to this, try channeling all these people into one entry point with no defined lines. It was chaos. The is a common issue on the Dubai to Riyadh flight. Poor effort Emirates.

2,0 MediocreDuncan, Jul 2025DXB - RUH
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Emirates need to improve the boarding process. There is no point calling for all First and Business Class passengers plus Platinum, Gold and Silver Skywards members at one time. Further to this, try channeling all these people into one entry point with no defined lines. It was chaos. The is a common issue on the Dubai to Riyadh flight. Poor effort Emirates.

The staff on board were excellent. Kind, thoughtful, helpful - not just with me but with others around that I observed. Wonderful service.

Very pleasant.The crews are very nice.Food were excellent.

Wifi was not operational for the whole trip. Other than this, flight was well received .

Food no so good. Extra charge to much for front seats cost me £163 then other people sat near me for nothing 🤬

First time and very memorable, the finest flying experience ive ever had

It was great, a little more leg room would have been better particularly since we were in premium economy

Overall was a good experience and this particular flight the crew were great too at least in business class. It’s not always the case with flydubai. Few things would make me think twice in the future on this route. 1. The arrival into T3 might sound good but it is a real pain as it takes almost 30 mins to get to terminal on the bus as the aircraft still park at T2. The bag takes even longer . If they just let us off at T2, I’d be home within 30 mins of walking off the plane. Instead it takes 1.5 hours. 2. Due to the timing, the very tiny lounge in Penang is so crowded because half the lounge is closed for Qatar crew. Hardly anywhere to sit. 3. Flydubai app and site has a long way to go and using it is very unpleasant.

Very uncomfortable aircraft. No free entertainment or drinks. Food okay. Won't fly with them again.

Good food, real silverware, polite staff, smooth landing, charging plugs, good entertainment options.

It was decent. I was sitting in the very back row of the aircraft, so it is difficult to gauge overall comfort from a notoriously undesirable seat in any aircraft.

Terrible Flight cancelled Long wait for replacement Lost my paid for priority seating Food options abysmal quality Uncomfortable seats

I have my tickets bought since June 2024 with extra space sits. Azul sends us emails every time to change flights. I was in vacation I naively did not think it would bring me any harm. Further, I am Diamond Client (Top fidelity club rank). During checking in this flight, I did not have the extra space, nor multimedia set (this does not affect me, I really do not care, I prefer to watch my own videos). My complaints have not being considered by the attendant, which said she was not from Azul and could not do anything and the she really did not care. She also said I should respect the other passengers. I have bought my tickets 6 months earlier, I had bought extra space, I switched flights thinking Azul was fair enough to keep my ticket settings, I am on the top of the fidelity class and I still have to listen to moral lessons of an attendant which does not even work for Azul. When an Azul employee came (the only information I have is her name is Chris) she validated the other company attendant. I have complained to Azul and still wait for an answer, but they keep calling me to renew my fidelity club, which unfortunately I already did days before my check in. Azul should pay more attention to proposals of switching flights (downgrading setting acquired in advance) and train better their employees and the employees of their associates. I have always had Azul as a top flighting company, after that experience I have changed my perception (and I won´t ever by extra space sits in advance, it must be changed and eventually you will receive a voucher you will never be able to used) and don´t participate in any fidelity program (they are only concerned to your fidelity with respect to them, not the other way around, you may even listen to a moral lesson in that case).

The flight we booked that left at 10 am was canceled without explanation at 4 am the flight they moved us to was 9 hours later.

The flight was supposed to be on a Airbus A330 Neo and it wasn’t. The airplane was pretty old, none of the entertainment screens was working.

The flight from CNF to VCP was delayed and I had to rush to catch the next plane. It was strange, since the boarding in CNF was done in due time.

Azul has become the new Avianca and Copa, they are using Airbus with very uncomfortable seats, no more Azul

On time. Nice crew, clean plane and a small snack

During boarding the company said that the plane didn’t have enough space and required to dispatch any luggage. But in reality the plane was with a lot of luggage space in the overhead bins. So it just took a lot of additional al time, specially considering that it took around 30m for the luggage to arrive in the retrieval belt in the airport.

Tight and not so comfortable business class seats . Crew below average. Very formal, no smiles, and kind of confused when serving meals. AZUL used to be much better on all above subjects. That's is what monopoly does to its customers.

The food options were beef or veg, No alternatives for Hindus, that don't eat beef...

Flight was on time Seats ( business class) are terrible- you keep on slipping down as it doesn’t lie flat Food service is like economy class. Meals ( still wrapped in plastic) are just dropped in front of you

On time flight; otherwise not impressed by the check- in- purchased business class and the aircraft was downgraded; no refund given for the difference. Told I could access the lounge due to the above and was questioned by the lounge check- in person who was not friendly

Flight was cancelled with no notification until I reached the check-in desk at the airport. I also got downgraded and they lost my luggage.

Very bad. Linda the hostess was very rude all the time

Very bad, Linda the hostess was very rude all the time

The flight SA227 on 2nd March Sao Paulo to Cape Town was delayed by 3 hours. All other flights leaving Sao Paulo left on time. We were told that we were waiting for push back and a routing from Air traffic control. I don't believe this, what was the real reason for the flight delay?

I think more immigration officers at Or Tambo- I spent 90 mins in a queue before I can assisted and most people missed their appointments and meetings

Not sure it was a basic airline so nothing much to like but what was annoying was they delayed so much we missed our connecting flight and we had to almost fight to be out on the next flight and also even get food

Everything the crew werr nice and helpful plus the food was good

Delay more than hour created pressure to catch the connecting flight

The seats were so close together, when the man in front of me put his seat back, the screen in front of me was 9 inches from my face. There is no way to lean forward if I needed to pick something up. It was pretty uncomfortable for a ten hour flight. I was very surprised.

The whole experience was positive. Crew very friendly and helpful. Very greedy with pre-seat allocation. Web site too complicated

Swiss airline do not allow online check-in before 24 hrs, this is very inconvenient to us. I tried many ways such as booking code(6 numbers) or 13 booking numbers , neither of them work, Lufthansa is better which allow us to check in even before 30 hrs, so we can assign our seats( not many people want spend extra money to assign seats on top of airfare which is already spent.)

Clean, efficient and quick response time when we missed our connecting flight.

Delayed 30 mins Forced to check in my carry on luggage

I slept the whole flight so I can't tell you about the food and there was no entertainment offered. Crew was very nice, seats were comfortable in business, and boarding was easy.

I haven't flown Swiss in a long time. I was disappointed that after paying $14,907 for 3 business class seats, we still had to pay another $200 for a single business class seat. All the window seats used to be single seats. Now it's every other one and if you want a single seat it's extra. Also, The double seats do not have pods or any privacy. We landed in Chicago after a long 10 hour flight and our connecting flight was on United. Because we do not have status on Swiss, we were not allowed to use the United lounge, even with business class seats. My father is on crutches and we had a 4 hour layover. No lounge was also disappointing. All of my status is on British Airways so I will go back to flying BA. We flew Swiss because my father did not want to go through Heathrow. On a positive, the crew were super nice and accommodating for my father who had recently had hip replacement surgery. Food was okay. I"m not a good person to critique the food, I never like airplane food.

My luggage did not make the connection and 4 days later I still have not received it.

We are glinting with united , but over all very disappointed

I’m entitled to a refund per LATAM due to the mid flight itinerary change and being stuck in São Paulo for 24 hours and needing to get a hotel. The airline was dismissive and of no help.

The flight was late. Please do not delay next time.

I couldn't travel, now I can't get a refund and to change the date I have to pay an absurd fine.

Boarding was confusing with a delayed flight because there was no English translation

My biggest complaint is the comfort. I am not tall and there was no legroom. It was very uncomfortable. During my transfer in Sao Paola, the flight was slightly delayed so boarding was confusing because there were no instructions in English.

Horrible the worst airlines I have ever flown. Cancelled flight with no choices and when contacted them they were not helpful

Bought a ticket that included a bag and they still charged me to check it in, latam is the worst airline.

I never got this flight. You sent me to Chile!!! And from Chile I got the other flight to São Paulo... I've arrived 7h latter than I was supposed to arrive because of Delta delays.

Because the flight was late, we lost the connection to Brazil. You, Delta delayed, and you Delta anticipated the door closing in 15 min from Miami to GRU. Why? It caused a lot of stress! I almost could not see my mother in law alive because of your delay.

Lost ,y connection due to a mechanical delay, huge line to get new connection and vouchers

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