Nice to Lyon flight
Flights from Nice to Lyon start at €36.72 and take 3h 58m at their fastest.
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The Flights from Nice to Lyon starts at €36.72 and takes 3h 58m door to door, run by 4 operators over 306 km, with around 28 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.
- 3h 58mDoor to door
- 48mMoving
- €36.72From
- 75.3 kgCO2
The cheapest and the fastest on 29 September 2026
Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.
No bookable itinerary on the day this page prices, so none is shown.
Airlines
Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.
| Operator | From |
|---|---|
 ASL Airlines Belgium | €32.59 |
 Air France Hop | €32.59 |
 Air France | €36.13 |
| easyJet | €32.00 |
Lyon sits on the water, which usually settles which side of town you want to wake up on. Rooms are not ours to sell.
Rooms within reach of Lyon Part Dieu
Hotels and flats near the centre, most of them with free cancellation, on a map that shows what is walkable.
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When to book Nice to Lyon
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €14.4890 days
- €13.3860 days
- €15.5845 days
- €15.0330 days
- €15.5821 days
- €19.4314 days
- €23.287 days
- €30.983 days
- €37.031 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €13.38.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 177 percent. The dearest point is €37.03, 1 days out.
- What that means
- Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 60 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Which departure day costs least
Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
- €20.53Sun
- €17.78Mon
- €17.78Tue
- €19.43Wed
- €22.18Thu
- €21.08Fri
- €21.63Sat
Where you leave from and where you arrive
The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.
Nice
- NCE
Lyon
- LYS
What the journey actually looks like
Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.
- How far it really runs
- The route covers 306 km against 297 km in a straight line, a detour of 1 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
- First and last departure
- The first service of the day leaves Nice at 06:09 and the last at 20:28, across 28 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
Flights against the other ways to make this journey
The same corridor, door to door, with every mode that runs it.
| Mode | Door to door | Moving | At the ends | From | CO2 | Per day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Train | 2h 48m | 2h 4m | 44m | €38.84 | 9.8 kg | 20 |
| Flight | 3h 58m | 48m | 3h 10m | €36.72 | 75.3 kg | 28 |
| Coach | 4h 41m | 3h 57m | 44m | €17.78 | 8.0 kg | 30 |
Questions about Nice to Lyon
The questions people actually ask about this journey, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.
How long does the Flight from Nice to Lyon take?
The Flight from Nice to Lyon takes 3h 58m door to door, of which 48m is spent moving. The route runs 306 km. The difference between the two times is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end, which every time on this page includes.
How much does the Flight from Nice to Lyon cost?
The Flight from Nice to Lyon starts at €36.72 for one passenger, checked on 29 September 2026. A typical fare is €38.49. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.
Who runs the Flight from Nice to Lyon?
4 operators run the Flight from Nice to Lyon: ASL Airlines Belgium, Air France Hop, Air France, easyJet. Between them they file around 28 departures a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.
Which terminal does the Flight from Nice to Lyon use?
The Flight from Nice to Lyon leaves from Nice NCE and arrives at Lyon LYS. Allow about 3h 10m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.
Is the Flight the best way from Nice to Lyon?
Travelling from Nice to Lyon by Coach costs €17.78 and takes 4h 41m door to door, against 3h 58m by Flight. Which is better depends on whether the money or the hours matter more on this trip. The comparison table on this page shows every mode side by side.
When should I book the Flight from Nice to Lyon?
Fares for the Flight from Nice to Lyon bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €13.38. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 177 percent, measured on 29 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
How much CO2 does the Flight from Nice to Lyon produce?
The Flight from Nice to Lyon produces about 75.3 kg of CO2 per passenger over 306 km, which works out at roughly 246 grams per passenger kilometre. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveller, not for the vehicle.
Where these numbers come from
Observed service A carrier record shows this named operator serving this named pair, and we carry that through unchanged.
Schedules, seat counts and fares are generated by our own model until the supplier contracts are signed. Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance are real. We would rather say that on every page than let a modelled number pass for a filed one.
Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon
- On this page
- Every figure above was computed for Nice to Lyon on 9 September 2026: 306 km of route against 297 km in a straight line, 28 services a day, 4 operators, a cheapest fare of €36.72, and 3h 58m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
Related journeys
The fare from LYS into Lyon is the one price on this journey we cannot show you, because it is not ours.
Getting from LYS into Lyon?
A price agreed before you fly, a driver at arrivals, and a car big enough for the bags.
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