ExceptionalNonstop · 2.5h
ATH to WAWPoland
Warsaw
$48
usually $125
−62%
Most monthly lows $85–$133. Cheaper than every other month on record (6).
Flights · ATH → JNB
Athens to Johannesburg
Best fare, round trip
$1,316
Too little price history on this route to compare — the fare is shown as found.
Found
- Depart
- Fri 11 Dec
- Return
- Fri 11 Dec
- Stay
- 1 night
- Flight
- 1 stop · 11.5h
- Airline
Aegean Airlines
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
South AfricaJohannesburgAfrica’s busiest airport and the road to Kruger — most people connect, some stay for the best museums on the continent.Best windowMar–May · Sep–NovAirportsO. R. Tambo (JNB) · Lanseria (HLA)Every route into JohannesburgFare seasonality
When this route gets cheap.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 11.5 hours outbound, on a 1-night trip — ticketed under Aegean Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $1,316 for 7,152 km each way, that works out to about $92 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $44 per 1,000 km typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 19 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Johannesburg, this fare ranks 19th — 2.9× the $455 we hold from Dubai. For context, the middle fare among the 19 routes of similar length we watch out of Athens is $703. 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. Fare history here is still too short to name a cheap season. The best time to be in Johannesburg: Mar–May · Sep–Nov.
The 5 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 121% higher than when tracking began on 17 Aug — $638 then versus $1,408 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 $632, on 25 Aug.
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.
Cached fares · checked 10 Oct 2026
We are still collecting this route's months — 1 month of cached prices so far, too few to chart.
Route facts
- Airports
- Eleftherios Venizelos (ATH) ↔ O. R. Tambo (JNB) · Lanseria (HLA)
- Flight time
- ≈11.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈7,152 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Aegean Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Sep–Nov
Good to know
ATH → JNB, answered.
How far in advance should I book ATH → Johannesburg?
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. Our guide Why flight prices change covers the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Athens to Johannesburg?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Aegean Airlines. We hold no nonstop fare on this route right now, which does not mean none flies — search your exact dates to see what does.
Are these prices guaranteed?
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on 12 October). 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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