The skyline of Ho Chi Minh City just before sunrise. The Bitexco Financial Tower is silhouetted.

Athens to Ho Chi Minh City

Compare trains, coaches, flights and ferries from Athens to Ho Chi Minh City. From €662.12, fastest 16h 47m, with the total price and every fee shown up front.

Athens to Ho Chi Minh City runs about 4 times a day, with the first departure around 07:30 and the last around 07:30. One passenger pays €662.12, every fee included. The fastest door to door is 16h 47m over 9,086 km, on services run by 6 operators across 1 mode.

Checked 23 September 2026Priced for 13 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

What one seat costs

Every operator we hold on this corridor starts at €662.12, so there is no spread to show.

Typical fares · Priced for 13 October 2026

€662.12

  • 235%Moves across the booking window

When it runs, leaving Athens

Typical first and last departure on this corridor.

  • 07:30First departure
  • 07:30Last departure
  • 4Services per day
  • 0%Run direct

Fares by date

What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.

Typical fares

  1. about €2,154.23Thu24
  2. about €1,581.34Fri25
  3. about €1,925.31Sat26
  4. about €1,351.83Sun27
  5. about €1,086.33Mon28
  6. about €1,205.51Tue29
  7. about €1,326.46Wed30
  8. about €1,073.94Thu1
  9. about €1,014.94Fri2
  10. about €1,058.60Sat3
  11. about €1,028.51Sun4
  12. about €862.72Mon5
  13. about €840.30Tue6
  14. about €964.20Wed7
  15. about €878.06Thu8
  16. about €1,020.25Fri9
  17. about €868.03Sat10
  18. about €884.55Sun11
  19. about €668.02Mon12
  20. about €662.12Tue13
  21. about €697.52Wed14

Based on what this route has cost recently. The live fare is confirmed when you book.

The flight gets you into Ho Chi Minh City. These two partners take it from there, and the bed is theirs to book.

A hotel room

A room in Ho Chi Minh City for the night the flight gets in

Sort by distance from Gò Vấp railway station and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Athens to Ho Chi Minh City

The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.

  1. €843.8490 days
  2. €642.6560 days
  3. €771.2745 days
  4. €755.3430 days
  5. €697.5221 days
  6. €964.2014 days
  7. €1,326.467 days
  8. €1,925.313 days
  9. €2,154.231 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €642.65.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 235 percent. The dearest point is €2,154.23, 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.
€2,154.23€642.65137142130456090

Book now Fares on this route are lowest around 60 days ahead. You are inside that window.

This corridor, specifically

Facts that apply to Athens to Ho Chi Minh City and to no other route on the site.

Clocks

4 hours ahead on arrival. The clock moves even though you do not.

The shape of it

9,086 km

8,652 km as the crow flies, 5% further by the route services take. The bearing runs east.

Who lives at each end

664,04614,002,598

Population at the departure city and at the arrival city, which is usually what decides how often anything runs.

The route

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The journey

What the journey looks like

Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.

Direct or connecting
0% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 100% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 9,086 km against 8,652 km in a straight line, a detour of 5 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Abu Dhabi, Delhi, Istanbul, Dubai. The gap between arriving and leaving is 61 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 16 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Part of this journey is a self transfer between separate tickets, so leave more time than the minimum and expect to check in again.

Ho Chi Minh City is large, and the road in from SGN can take longer than the last hour of the flight. Cars are not our business.

A taxi rank outside an airport terminal

A car waiting when you land in Ho Chi Minh City

Settled in advance, so the ride into Ho Chi Minh City costs what it said it would rather than what the rank says.

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Who runs this route

The flight gets in hours before any room is ready. Holding a bag is not what we sell.

Left luggage lockers

Left luggage near Gò Vấp railway station

Most of the points near Gò Vấp railway station open before the first train and shut after the last one.

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Questions about Athens to Ho Chi Minh City

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 it take to get from Athens to Ho Chi Minh City?

The fastest journey from Athens to Ho Chi Minh City takes 16h 47m door to door, of which 12h 28m is spent moving, on the flight. Most services take around 17h 43m, because that average includes slower stopping services and journeys with a connection. Times include reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end.

How much does it cost to travel from Athens to Ho Chi Minh City?

The cheapest fare from Athens to Ho Chi Minh City is €662.12, as of 23 September 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €1,089.87. Both figures are the total for one passenger, including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so nothing is added at checkout.

What is the cheapest way to get from Athens to Ho Chi Minh City?

The cheapest way from Athens to Ho Chi Minh City is by flight, at €662.12 for one passenger on 13 October 2026. That journey takes 17h 4m door to door. Cheaper is rarely faster on this corridor, and the comparison table on this page shows what each mode costs against what it saves.

When should I book Athens to Ho Chi Minh City?

Fares from Athens to Ho Chi Minh City bottom out around 60 days before departure, at €642.65. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the dearest lead time is 235 percent, measured on 23 September 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.

Which day of the week is cheapest for Athens to Ho Chi Minh City?

Tuesday is the cheapest day to depart from Athens to Ho Chi Minh City, at €840.30. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, as of 23 September 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.

Which month is cheapest for Athens to Ho Chi Minh City?

February is the cheapest of the next 5 months to travel from Athens to Ho Chi Minh City, at €570.08 for one passenger. Each month is priced on its fifteenth, so the comparison is like for like rather than a mix of weekends and midweek departures.

Who runs services from Athens to Ho Chi Minh City?

6 operators sell services from Athens to Ho Chi Minh City across 1 mode: Aegean Airlines, Air India Limited, Emirates, Etihad Airways, IndiGo Airlines, Turkish Airlines. Journey times, fares and fare conditions differ between them, and the operator table on this page compares all of them on speed, flexibility and what is provided on board.

Is there a direct service from Athens to Ho Chi Minh City?

0 percent of the services we sell from Athens to Ho Chi Minh City are direct. The rest connect at Abu Dhabi, Delhi, Istanbul, Dubai, with about 61 minutes between the two services. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is rebooked at no charge.

Which station or terminal do services from Athens to Ho Chi Minh City use?

Services from Athens to Ho Chi Minh City by flight leave from Athens Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport ATH and arrive at Tan Son Nhat International Airport SGN. Allow about 3h 10m in total for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one, which is already included in every door to door time on this page.

Can I change or refund a ticket from Athens to Ho Chi Minh City?

0 of the 6 operators we sell from Athens to Ho Chi Minh City allow a change or a refund. A change on a changeable fare costs €5.00. The operator table on this page names which is which, and the condition is shown again before you pay.

Where these numbers come from

Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance on this page are real and come from open data. Where a corridor has a filed timetable the departure times are real too, and ferry fares are the prices the operators publish themselves.

Observed service A carrier record names this operator on this pair, carried through unchanged.

Prices come from the supplier wherever we hold a live quote. Elsewhere we show an indicative price built from the real distance, the real operator and a fare curve over lead time, day of the week and season. Those are labelled Estimated fare and cannot be booked.

Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon, Distances

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Athens to Ho Chi Minh City on 23 September 2026: 9086 km of route against 8652 km in a straight line, 4 services a day, 6 operators a cheapest fare of €662.12, and 16h 47m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

Being on the water gives Ho Chi Minh City a set of days out that do not start at a station.

A guided tour group

Day trips out of Ho Chi Minh City and across Vietnam

Day trips that leave Ho Chi Minh City in the morning and cover a good part of Vietnam by evening.

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The two ends, compared

Athens reaches 198 places in 55 countries on services we hold, over distances from 37 to 14,950 km. Ho Chi Minh City reaches 139 places in 35 countries, from 25 to 12,586 km.

Other ways to make this journey

Leaving Athens

  • 198Places you can leave for
  • 55Countries
  • 98Operators

Arriving in Ho Chi Minh City

Leaving Ho Chi Minh City

  • 139Places you can leave for
  • 35Countries
  • 62Operators

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