Athens (ATH) to Budapest (BUD): 697 miles (1,122 km) great-circle, about 1h 55m nonstop by our estimate. Cheapest fare observed: $69 round-trip on Ryanair, nonstop, departing June 11, 2026.
$69 round-trip, Ryanair FR1242, departing 2026-06-11 at 15:30, returning 2026-06-13. The recorded itinerary left on a Thursday, returning on a Saturday 2 nights later; the fare was observed 47 days before departure. "Book this flight" opens Kiwi.com with the same airline and dates.
At $69, it was the cheapest of the 30 round-trip fares we recorded from ATH (median $173). That is 9.9 cents per great-circle mile (round-trip price over one-way distance), below the ATH median of 28.4 cents across 30 round-trip routes.
Routes from ATH of similar length: Rome (674 mi) at $100 and Chisinau (671 mi) at $70.
Ryanair had the cheapest fare on 5 of 30 ATH routes. It is the 20th longest of the 30 routes we track from ATH.
Of 24 departure airports with a fare to Budapest, Athens (ATH) ranked 4th at $69. Lowest: $41 from Warsaw (WAW); highest: $1564 from Okinawa (OKA); 14 nonstop. Cheapest-fare airlines (routes): Wizz Air (13), Wizz Air Malta (4), Ryanair (2), Aeromexico (1), China Eastern (1) and easyJet (1), plus 2 more.
The reverse, Budapest (BUD) to Athens (ATH), was $62 round-trip on Wizz Air, nonstop, departing June 7, 2026. Budapest to Athens flights.
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Travelpayouts fares (cheapest per route, observed April 25, 2026); OurAirports coordinates and elevations; IANA zones Europe/Athens, Europe/Budapest; flight time is our estimate.