Route brief · ATH → LIS
Athens → Lisbon
$163
−22% vs typical
seasonal median $210 · difference $47
Jan 11 '27 – Jan 14 '27 · 3 nights
Aegean AirlinesNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $166–$234
- Board rank
- Stronger than 61%
- Route sample
- 6 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefLISLisbonTiled hills, custard tarts, Atlantic light — TAP’s hub wars keep this Europe’s cheapest gateway.Best windowMar–Jun · Sep–OctAirportsHumberto Delgado (LIS)All routes into LisbonWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 6 months, Jan is the cheapest for ATH → LIS. Best time to be there: Mar–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in January around $163 and peak in September near $264 — a $101 spread across the 6 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Aegean Airlines nonstop and takes about 4.5 hours outbound, on a 3-night trip. At $163 for 2,852 km each way, that works out to about $29 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $39 typical of medium-haul fares here. Across the 7 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Lisbon, this fare ranks 6th — 39% above the $117 from Copenhagen. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 13 routes of similar length we watch out of Athens, where the middle fare is $164.
Day-level prices for the next 4 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 12% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $283 then versus $318 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 $185, on Nov 8.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 19 of 122 days priced, from 43 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
September 2026
December 2026
Cheapest in Jan · around $163
22% below the $210 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Athens → Lisbon · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Eleftherios Venizelos (ATH) ↔ Humberto Delgado (LIS)
- Flight time
- ~4.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~2,852 km each way
- Typical price
- $210 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Aegean Airlines
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Mar–Jun · Sep–Oct
ATH → LIS, answered.
Is $163 a good price for Athens to Lisbon?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $210 round-trip. At $163 you're 22% below that, saving about $47, which we rate good for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Athens to Lisbon?
Across 6 months of cached-fare history, Jan comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Lisbon are Mar–Jun · Sep–Oct — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book ATH → Lisbon?
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. What we can measure is which month is cheap: across 6 months of cached fares, Jan comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Athens to Lisbon?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Aegean Airlines). The outbound leg runs around 4.5 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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