Route brief · ATH → NCE
Athens → Nice
$178
−13% vs typical
seasonal median $205 · difference $27
Sep 29 – Oct 3 · 4 nights
easyJetNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $194–$205
- Board rank
- Stronger than 31%
- Route sample
- 4 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefNCENiceThe Riviera’s front door — Monaco, Antibes and Cannes all on a local train that costs a few euros.Best windowMay–Jun · Sep–OctAirportsCôte d’Azur (NCE)All routes into NiceWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 4 months, Sep is the cheapest for ATH → NCE. Best time to be there: May–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in September around $178 and peak in March near $208 — a $30 spread across the 4 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies easyJet nonstop and takes about 2.5 hours outbound, on a 4-night trip. At $178 for 1,521 km each way, that works out to about $59 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $41 typical of short-haul fares here. Across the 7 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Nice, this fare ranks 6th — 2.1× the $86 we hold from Lisbon. For context, the middle fare among the 10 routes of similar length we watch out of Athens is $142.
Day-level prices for the next 3 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 12% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $243 then versus $272 now, across 5 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 $95, on Oct 20.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 9 of 101 days priced, from 31 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
November 2026
Cheapest in Sep · around $178
13% below the $205 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Athens → Nice · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Eleftherios Venizelos (ATH) ↔ Côte d’Azur (NCE)
- Flight time
- ~2.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~1,521 km each way
- Typical price
- $205 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- easyJet
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- May–Jun · Sep–Oct
ATH → NCE, answered.
Is $178 a good price for Athens to Nice?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $205 round-trip and this fare is 13% under it, about $27. We do not call a drop notable until 20%, so this is an ordinary price for the route rather than a reason to hurry.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Athens to Nice?
Across 4 months of cached-fare history, Sep comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Nice are May–Jun · Sep–Oct — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book ATH → Nice?
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 4 months of cached fares, Sep 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 Nice?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (easyJet). The outbound leg runs around 2.5 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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