Route brief · ATH → BUD
Athens → Budapest
$58
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Nov 7 – Nov 14 · 7 nights
Wizz AirNonstop
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefBUDBudapestThermal baths, ruin bars and a river splitting two cities — still the best value capital in Europe.Best windowApr–Jun · Sep–OctAirportsFerenc Liszt (BUD)All routes into BudapestWhen this route gets cheap.
Best time to be in Budapest: Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct. Fare history for this route is still thin, so we make no seasonal call yet.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Wizz Air nonstop and takes about 2 hours outbound, on a 7-night trip. At $58 for 1,124 km each way, that works out to about $26 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $41 that short-haul fares on this board typically run. Across the 7 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Budapest, this fare ranks 4th — 32% above the $44 from Brussels. It is also the 2nd cheapest of the 6 routes of similar length we watch out of Athens. 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.
Day-level prices for the next 3 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 16% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $116 then versus $134 now, across 6 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 $58, on Nov 7.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 18 of 93 days priced, from 54 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
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Route facts
- Airports
- Eleftherios Venizelos (ATH) ↔ Ferenc Liszt (BUD)
- Flight time
- ~2 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~1,124 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Wizz Air
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
ATH → BUD, answered.
How far in advance should I book ATH → Budapest?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 Athens to Budapest?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Wizz Air). The outbound leg runs around 2 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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