Route brief · LIS → ATH
Lisbon → Athens
$174
−30% vs typical
seasonal median $250 · difference $76
Feb 3 '27 – Feb 9 '27 · 6 nights
Aegean AirlinesNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $187–$261
- Board rank
- Stronger than 78%
- Route sample
- 6 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 6 months, Feb is the cheapest for LIS → ATH. Best time to be there: Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in February around $174 and peak in July near $694 — a $520 spread across the 6 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Aegean Airlines nonstop and takes about 4 hours outbound, on a 6-night trip. At $174 for 2,852 km each way, that works out to about $31 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $39 typical of medium-haul fares here. Across the 9 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Athens, this fare ranks 5th — 2.0× the $89 we hold from Stockholm. For context, the middle fare among the 12 routes of similar length we watch out of Lisbon is $163.
Day-level prices for the next 3 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 21% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $328 then versus $258 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 $170, on Oct 14.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 14 of 101 days priced, from 46 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
Cheapest in Feb · around $174
30% below the $250 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Lisbon → Athens · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Humberto Delgado (LIS) ↔ Eleftherios Venizelos (ATH)
- Flight time
- ~4 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~2,852 km each way
- Typical price
- $250 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Aegean Airlines
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
LIS → ATH, answered.
Is $174 a good price for Lisbon to Athens?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $250 round-trip. At $174 you're 30% below that, saving about $76, which we rate great for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Lisbon to Athens?
Across 6 months of cached-fare history, Feb 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 LIS → 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 6 months of cached fares, Feb comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Lisbon to Athens?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Aegean Airlines). The outbound leg runs around 4 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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