Route brief · LON → ATH
London → Athens
$104
−37% vs typical
seasonal median $165 · difference $61
Sep 29 – Oct 6 · 7 nights
Wizz Air UKNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $116–$234
- Board rank
- Stronger than 86%
- Route sample
- 5 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 5 months, Sep is the cheapest for LON → ATH. Best time to be there: Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in September around $104 and peak in August near $306 — a $202 spread across the 5 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Wizz Air UK nonstop and takes about 4 hours outbound, on a 7-night trip. At $104 for 2,392 km each way, that works out to about $22 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $41 that short-haul fares on this board typically run. Across the 13 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Athens, this fare ranks 3rd — 17% above the $89 from Stockholm. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 6 routes of similar length we watch out of London, where the middle fare is $104.
Day-level prices for the next 3 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 1% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $169 then versus $171 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 $89, on Oct 6.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 18 of 101 days priced, from 69 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
November 2026
Cheapest in Sep · around $104
37% below the $165 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · London → Athens · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Heathrow (LHR) · Gatwick (LGW) · Stansted (STN) · Luton (LTN) ↔ Eleftherios Venizelos (ATH)
- Flight time
- ~4 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~2,392 km each way
- Typical price
- $165 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Wizz Air UK
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
LON → ATH, answered.
Is $104 a good price for London to Athens?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $165 round-trip. At $104 you're 37% below that, saving about $61, which we rate great for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from London to Athens?
Across 5 months of cached-fare history, Sep 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 LON → 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 5 months of cached fares, Sep comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from London to Athens?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Wizz Air UK). 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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