Route brief · ATH → OPO
Athens → Porto
$159
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Oct 14 – Oct 17 · 3 nights
Malta Air1 stop
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefOPOPortoGranite, port wine and a river gorge through the middle — cheaper and steeper than Lisbon.Best windowMay–Jun · Sep–OctAirportsFrancisco Sá Carneiro (OPO)All routes into PortoWhen this route gets cheap.
Best time to be in Porto: May–Jun · Sep–Oct. Fare history for this route is still thin, so we make no seasonal call yet.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 5 hours outbound, on a 3-night trip — ticketed under Malta Air, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $159 for 2,780 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 Porto, this fare ranks 3rd — 30% above the $122 from Berlin. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 16 routes of similar length we watch out of Athens, where the middle fare is $163. We have 3 months 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.
The 5 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 2% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $242 then versus $236 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 $137, on Oct 21.
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.
Route facts
- Airports
- Eleftherios Venizelos (ATH) ↔ Francisco Sá Carneiro (OPO)
- Flight time
- ~5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~2,780 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Malta Air
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- May–Jun · Sep–Oct
ATH → OPO, answered.
How far in advance should I book ATH → Porto?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 Porto?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Malta Air. 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 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.
Next step
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Lock the flight first — then compare stays for Oct 14 – Oct 17 · 3 nights.
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