Route brief · LAX → ATH
Los Angeles → Athens
$577
−30% vs typical
seasonal median $825 · difference $248
Dec 14 – Dec 29 · 15 nights
Lufthansa1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $823–$824
- Board rank
- Stronger than 78%
- 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, Dec is the cheapest for LA → ATH. Best time to be there: Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in December around $577 and peak in September near $903 — a $326 spread across the 4 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 13.5 hours outbound, on a 15-night trip — ticketed under Lufthansa, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $577 for 11,095 km each way, that works out to about $26 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $40 that ultra-long-haul fares on this board typically run. Across the 16 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Athens, this fare ranks 5th — 37% above the $422 from Chicago. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 54 routes of similar length we watch out of Los Angeles, where the middle fare is $700.
The 6 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 11% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $980 then versus $873 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 $779, on Nov 4.
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 Dec · around $577
30% below the $825 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Los Angeles → Athens · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- LAX · Burbank (BUR) · Long Beach (LGB) ↔ Eleftherios Venizelos (ATH)
- Flight time
- ~13.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~11,095 km each way
- Typical price
- $825 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Lufthansa
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
LA → ATH, answered.
Is $577 a good price for Los Angeles to Athens?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $825 round-trip. At $577 you're 30% below that, saving about $248, which we rate great for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Los Angeles to Athens?
Across 4 months of cached-fare history, Dec 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 LA → 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, Dec comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Los Angeles to Athens?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Lufthansa. 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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