Route brief · ATH → SEL
Athens → Seoul
$505
−34% vs typical
seasonal median $765 · difference $260
Oct 27 – Nov 9 · 13 nights
Ethiopian1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $690–$763
- Board rank
- Stronger than 84%
- Route sample
- 4 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefSELSeoulPalaces wedged between skyscrapers, barbecue smoke at midnight, cafés that outnumber people.Best windowApr–May · Sep–OctAirportsIncheon (ICN) · Gimpo (GMP)All routes into SeoulWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 4 months, Oct is the cheapest for ATH → SEL. Best time to be there: Apr–May · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in October around $505 and peak in December near $842 — a $337 spread across the 4 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 16.5 hours outbound, on a 13-night trip — ticketed under Ethiopian, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $505 for 8,516 km each way, that works out to about $30 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $44 that long-haul fares on this board typically run. Across the 27 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Seoul, this fare ranks 2nd — 4% above the $484 from Istanbul. It is also the 3rd cheapest of the 27 routes of similar length we watch out of Athens.
The 3 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 13% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $674 then versus $763 now, across 7 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 $452, on Sep 1.
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.
Cheapest in Oct · around $505
34% below the $765 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Athens → Seoul · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Eleftherios Venizelos (ATH) ↔ Incheon (ICN) · Gimpo (GMP)
- Flight time
- ~16.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~8,516 km each way
- Typical price
- $765 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Ethiopian
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–May · Sep–Oct
ATH → SEL, answered.
Is $505 a good price for Athens to Seoul?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $765 round-trip. At $505 you're 34% below that, saving about $260, which we rate great for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Athens to Seoul?
Across 4 months of cached-fare history, Oct comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Seoul are Apr–May · Sep–Oct — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book ATH → Seoul?
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, 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 Seoul?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Ethiopian. 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.
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