Route brief · DUB → ATH
Dublin → Athens
$156
−8% vs typical
seasonal median $170 · difference $14
Oct 17 – Oct 22 · 5 nights
Aer LingusNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $165–$170
- Board rank
- Stronger than 14%
- Route sample
- 4 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefATHAthensThe Acropolis at golden hour, then souvlaki for pocket change. Gateway fare to the whole Aegean.Best windowApr–Jun · Sep–OctAirportsEleftherios Venizelos (ATH)All routes into AthensWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 4 months, Oct is the cheapest for DUB → ATH. Best time to be there: Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in October around $156 and peak in March near $229 — a $73 spread across the 4 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Aer Lingus nonstop and takes about 4.5 hours outbound, on a 5-night trip. At $156 for 2,855 km each way, that works out to about $27 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $39 that medium-haul fares on this board typically run. Across the 9 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Athens, this fare ranks 3rd — 1.8× the $89 we hold from Stockholm. It is also the 2nd cheapest of the 6 routes of similar length we watch out of Dublin.
Day-level prices for the next 4 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 15% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $171 then versus $196 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 $156, on Oct 17.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 12 of 122 days priced, from 22 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
November 2026
December 2026
Cheapest in Oct · around $156
8% below the $170 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Dublin → Athens · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Dublin (DUB) ↔ Eleftherios Venizelos (ATH)
- Flight time
- ~4.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~2,855 km each way
- Typical price
- $170 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Aer Lingus
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
DUB → ATH, answered.
Is $156 a good price for Dublin to Athens?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $170 round-trip and this fare is 8% under it, about $14. 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 Dublin to Athens?
Across 4 months of cached-fare history, Oct comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Athens are Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book DUB → Athens?
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 Dublin to Athens?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Aer Lingus). 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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