Route brief · ATH → ROM
Athens → Rome
$99
−27% vs typical
seasonal median $135 · difference $36
Oct 18 – Oct 20 · 2 nights
RyanairNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $115–$150
- Board rank
- Stronger than 73%
- Route sample
- 10 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefROMRomeTwenty-eight centuries of showing off. Shoulder-season fares make the Colosseum a weekend idea.Best windowApr–Jun · Sep–OctAirportsFiumicino (FCO) · Ciampino (CIA)All routes into RomeWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 10 months, Oct is the cheapest for ATH → ROM. Best time to be there: Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in October around $99 and peak in March near $177 — a $78 spread across the 10 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Ryanair nonstop and takes about 2 hours outbound, on a 2-night trip. At $99 for 1,051 km each way, that works out to about $47 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 Rome, this fare ranks 6th — 2.5× the $40 we hold from Brussels. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 7 routes of similar length we watch out of Athens, where the middle fare is $99.
Cheapest day in the next 3 months: Oct 14 · $73 (52% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 6% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $147 then versus $138 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 $73, on Oct 14.
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Cheapest in Oct · around $99
27% below the $135 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Athens → Rome · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Eleftherios Venizelos (ATH) ↔ Fiumicino (FCO) · Ciampino (CIA)
- Flight time
- ~2 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~1,051 km each way
- Typical price
- $135 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Ryanair
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
ATH → ROM, answered.
Is $99 a good price for Athens to Rome?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $135 round-trip. At $99 you're 27% below that, saving about $36, which we rate good for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Athens to Rome?
Across 10 months of cached-fare history, Oct comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Rome are Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book ATH → Rome?
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 10 months of cached fares, Oct 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 Rome?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Ryanair). The outbound leg runs around 2 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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