São Paulo (GRU) to Rio de Janeiro (RIO): 209 miles (336 km) great-circle, about 0h 55m nonstop by our estimate. Cheapest fare observed: $124 round-trip on Azul, nonstop, departing May 24, 2026.
$124 round-trip, Azul AD4193, departing 2026-05-24 at 10:10, returning 2026-06-01. The recorded itinerary left on a Sunday, returning on a Monday 8 nights later; the fare was observed 29 days before departure. "Book this flight" opens Kiwi.com with the same airline and dates.
At $124, it was the cheapest of the 30 round-trip fares we recorded from GRU (median $520). That is 59.3 cents per great-circle mile (round-trip price over one-way distance), above the GRU median of 21.3 cents across 30 round-trip routes.
Routes from GRU of similar length: Florianopolis (320 mi) at $280 and Foz Do Iguacu (526 mi) at $314.
Azul had the cheapest fare on 4 of 30 GRU routes. It is the 30th longest of the 30 routes we track from GRU.
Of 3 departure airports with a fare to Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo (GRU) ranked 1st at $124. Lowest: $124 from São Paulo (GRU); highest: $1615 from San Jose (SJC); 2 nonstop. Cheapest-fare airlines (routes): American Airlines (1), Azul (1) and Flybondi (1).
Travelpayouts fares (cheapest per route, observed April 25, 2026); OurAirports coordinates and elevations; IANA zones America/Sao_Paulo, America/Sao_Paulo; flight time is our estimate.