Route brief · ATH → SGN
Athens → Ho Chi Minh City
$777
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Oct 18 – Oct 24 · 6 nights
Air Arabia2 stops
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefSGNHo Chi Minh CityFaster and richer than Hanoi, and the usual door to the Mekong Delta and the southern coast.Best windowDec–MarAirportsTan Son Nhat (SGN)All routes into Ho Chi Minh CityWhen this route gets cheap.
Best time to be in Ho Chi Minh City: Dec–Mar. Fare history for this route is still thin, so we make no seasonal call yet.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 2 stops and takes about 13 hours outbound, on a 6-night trip — ticketed under Air Arabia, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $777 for 8,652 km each way, that works out to about $45 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 18 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Ho Chi Minh City, this fare ranks 15th — 1.7× the $454 we hold from Sydney. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 29 routes of similar length we watch out of Athens, where the middle fare is $825. We have 1 month 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.
Route facts
- Airports
- Eleftherios Venizelos (ATH) ↔ Tan Son Nhat (SGN)
- Flight time
- ~13 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~8,652 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Air Arabia
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Dec–Mar
ATH → SGN, answered.
How far in advance should I book ATH → Ho Chi Minh City?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 Ho Chi Minh City?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Air Arabia. 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 August 9). 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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