Route brief · ATH → HOU
Athens → Houston
$1,009
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Nov 14 – Nov 20 · 6 nights
SWISS2 stops
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefHOUHoustonUnited’s Latin America gateway, the best Vietnamese food in the country, and NASA on the edge of town.Best windowMar–May · Oct–NovAirportsBush (IAH) · Hobby (HOU)All routes into HoustonWhen this route gets cheap.
Best time to be in Houston: Mar–May · Oct–Nov. 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 16 hours outbound, on a 6-night trip — ticketed under SWISS, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $1,009 for 10,182 km each way, that works out to about $50 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 22 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Houston, this fare ranks 19th — 43% above the $708 from Rome. For context, the middle fare among the 27 routes of similar length we watch out of Athens is $867. 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) ↔ Bush (IAH) · Hobby (HOU)
- Flight time
- ~16 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~10,182 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- SWISS
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Oct–Nov
ATH → HOU, answered.
How far in advance should I book ATH → Houston?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 Houston?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under SWISS. 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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