RareNonstop · 1.5h
ZRH to ROMItaly
Rome
$60
usually $100
−40%
Most monthly lows $69–$102. Cheaper than every other month on record (3).
Flights · ZRH → ATH
Zurich to Athens
Best fare, round trip
$187
Too little price history on this route to compare — the fare is shown as found.
Found
- Depart
- Mon 2 Nov
- Return
- Thu 5 Nov
- Stay
- 3 nights
- Flight
- Nonstop · 2.5h
- Airline
SWISS
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
GreeceAthensThe Acropolis at golden hour, then souvlaki for pocket change. Gateway fare to the whole Aegean.Best windowApr–Jun · Sep–OctAirportsEleftherios Venizelos (ATH)Every route into AthensFare seasonality
When this route gets cheap.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies SWISS nonstop and takes about 2.5 hours outbound, on a 3-night trip. At $187 for 1,616 km each way, that works out to about $58 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $41 per 1,000 km typical of short-haul fares here. Across the 7 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Athens, this fare ranks 7th — 3.2× the $59 we hold from Milan. For context, the middle fare among the 13 routes of similar length we watch out of Zurich is $185. We have 3 months 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. Fare history here is still too short to name a cheap season. The best time to be in Athens: Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct.
The 6 days we hold a cached fare for
Press a date to compare its fares
The median cached fare across this calendar is 10% lower than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $234 then versus $211 now, across 23 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 $129, on 24 Nov.
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.
Cached fares · checked 17 Oct 2026
We are still collecting this route's months — 3 months of cached prices so far, too few to chart.
Route facts
- Airports
- Zurich (ZRH) ↔ Eleftherios Venizelos (ATH)
- Flight time
- ≈2.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈1,616 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- SWISS
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
Good to know
ZRH → ATH, answered.
How far in advance should I book ZRH → 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We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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. Our guide Why flight prices change covers the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Zurich to Athens?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (SWISS). The outbound leg runs around 2.5 hours.
Are these prices guaranteed?
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on 17 October). 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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