Route brief · ATH → OTP
Athens → Bucharest
$94
−37% vs typical
seasonal median $150 · difference $56
Oct 22 – Oct 26 · 4 nights
TaromNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $104–$151
- Board rank
- Stronger than 86%
- Route sample
- 4 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefOTPBucharestBelle-époque villas next to communist concrete, and the cheapest capital in the European Union.Best windowMay–Jun · Sep–OctAirportsHenri Coandă (OTP)All routes into BucharestWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 4 months, Oct is the cheapest for ATH → OTP. Best time to be there: May–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in October around $94 and peak in December near $233 — a $139 spread across the 4 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Tarom nonstop and takes about 2.5 hours outbound, on a 4-night trip.
The 4 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 38% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $105 then versus $145 now, across 4 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 $91, on Oct 8.
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 Oct · around $94
37% below the $150 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Athens → Bucharest · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Eleftherios Venizelos (ATH) ↔ Henri Coandă (OTP)
- Flight time
- ~2.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~758 km each way
- Typical price
- $150 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Tarom
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- May–Jun · Sep–Oct
ATH → OTP, answered.
Is $94 a good price for Athens to Bucharest?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $150 round-trip. At $94 you're 37% below that, saving about $56, which we rate great for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Athens to Bucharest?
Across 4 months of cached-fare history, Oct comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Bucharest are May–Jun · Sep–Oct — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book ATH → Bucharest?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 4 months of cached fares, Oct comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Athens to Bucharest?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Tarom). The outbound leg runs around 2.5 hours.
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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