Route brief · CAN → ATH
Guangzhou → Athens
$704
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Jul 7 '27 – Jul 30 '27 · 23 nights
Etihad1 stop
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.
Best time to be in Athens: Apr–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 14 hours outbound, on a 23-night trip — ticketed under Etihad, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $704 for 8,413 km each way, that works out to about $42 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 19 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Athens, this fare ranks 13th — 1.8× the $399 we hold from New York. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 28 routes of similar length we watch out of Guangzhou, where the middle fare is $868. We have 1 month 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.
Route facts
- Airports
- Baiyun (CAN) ↔ Eleftherios Venizelos (ATH)
- Flight time
- ~14 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~8,413 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Etihad
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
CAN → ATH, answered.
How far in advance should I book CAN → 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We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Guangzhou to Athens?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Etihad. 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 August 9). 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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