Route brief · ATH → EDI
Athens → Edinburgh
$205
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Jan 29 '27 – Feb 2 '27 · 4 nights
Austrian1 stop
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefEDIEdinburghA volcanic crag with a castle on it, a medieval old town below, and the Highlands within a morning.Best windowMay–SepAirportsEdinburgh (EDI)All routes into EdinburghWhen this route gets cheap.
Best time to be in Edinburgh: May–Sep. 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 5 hours outbound, on a 4-night trip — ticketed under Austrian, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $205 for 2,823 km each way, that works out to about $36 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $39 typical of medium-haul fares here. For context, the middle fare among the 13 routes of similar length we watch out of Athens is $164. We have 2 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.
The one day we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 20% lower than when tracking began on Aug 17 — $287 then versus $231 now, across 3 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 $231, on Sep 9.
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
- Eleftherios Venizelos (ATH) ↔ Edinburgh (EDI)
- Flight time
- ~5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~2,823 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Austrian
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- May–Sep
ATH → EDI, answered.
How far in advance should I book ATH → Edinburgh?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 Edinburgh?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Austrian. 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 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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