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Philadelphia to Athens

Compare trains, coaches, flights and ferries from Philadelphia to Athens. From €626.13, fastest 14h 3m, with the total price and every fee shown up front.

Philadelphia to Athens runs about 4 times a day, with the first departure around 06:07 and the last around 07:30. One passenger pays €626.13, every fee included. The fastest door to door is 14h 3m over 8,296 km, on services run by 1 operator across 1 mode.

Checked 16 September 2026Priced for 7 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

What one seat costs

Every operator we hold on this corridor starts at €626.13, so there is no spread to show.

Typical fares · Priced for 7 October 2026

€626.13

  • 269%Moves across the booking window

When it runs, leaving Philadelphia

No operator has filed a timetable for this direction yet, so the first and last departure below follow the pattern of the corridor. Read them as the shape of the service day rather than as times to turn up for.

  • 06:07First departure
  • 07:30Last departure
  • 4Services per day
  • 25%Run direct

Fares by date

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

Typical fares

  1. about €2,279.31Thu17
  2. about €1,673.38Fri18
  3. about €2,034.79Sat19
  4. about €1,050.84Sun20
  5. about €933.69Mon21
  6. about €1,029.10Tue22
  7. about €1,185.04Wed23
  8. about €1,013.99Thu24
  9. about €945.79Fri25
  10. about €1,049.19Sat26
  11. about €1,019.07Sun27
  12. about €778.35Mon28
  13. about €790.74Tue29
  14. about €955.35Wed30
  15. about €929.39Thu1
  16. about €753.84Fri2
  17. about €753.84Sat3
  18. about €721.12Sun4
  19. about €647.96Mon5
  20. about €799.49Tue6
  21. about €626.13Wed7

Based on what this route has cost recently. The operator sets the price on the day, and the live fare is confirmed when you book.

The flight gets you into Athens. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.

A hotel room

A room in Athens for the night the flight gets in

Sort by distance from Athina Larissa and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Philadelphia to Athens

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

  1. €617.9990 days
  2. €620.1960 days
  3. €649.3445 days
  4. €678.4930 days
  5. €626.1321 days
  6. €955.3514 days
  7. €1,185.047 days
  8. €2,034.793 days
  9. €2,279.311 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €617.99.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 269 percent. The dearest point is €2,279.31, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 90 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
€2,279.31€617.99137142130456090

Book now Fares on this route are lowest around 90 days ahead. You are inside that window.

This corridor, specifically

Facts that apply to Philadelphia to Athens and to no other route on the site.

Clocks

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

The shape of it

8,296 km

8,054 km as the crow flies, 3% further by the route services take. The bearing runs north-east.

Who lives at each end

1,573,916664,046

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

How we know

0/2

2 of these connections were inferred from service-area overlap rather than observed in a timetable. We would rather say so.

The route

PhiladelphiaPhiladelphiaAthensAthens
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
20% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 80% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 8,296 km against 8,054 km in a straight line, a detour of 3 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Paris, Mestre, Milan, New York City. The gap between arriving and leaving is 47 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 20 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.

The fare from ATH into Athens is the one price on this journey we cannot show you, because it is not ours.

A taxi rank outside an airport terminal

A car waiting when you land in Athens

Settled in advance, so the ride into Athens costs what it said it would rather than what the rank says.

Partner links. We do not operate transfers. We earn a commission on a booking, and the fare is the same as going direct.

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 Athina Larissa

Most of the points near Athina Larissa open before the first train and shut after the last one.

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Questions about Philadelphia to Athens

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 Philadelphia to Athens?

The fastest journey from Philadelphia to Athens takes 14h 3m door to door, of which 11h 12m is spent moving, on the flight. Most services take around 14h 45m, 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 Philadelphia to Athens?

The cheapest fare from Philadelphia to Athens is €626.13, as of 16 September 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €1,078.66. 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 Philadelphia to Athens?

The cheapest way from Philadelphia to Athens is by flight, at €626.13 for one passenger on 7 October 2026. That journey takes 14h 22m 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 Philadelphia to Athens?

Fares from Philadelphia to Athens bottom out around 90 days before departure, at €617.99. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the dearest lead time is 269 percent, measured on 16 September 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.

Which day of the week is cheapest for Philadelphia to Athens?

Monday is the cheapest day to depart from Philadelphia to Athens, at €778.35. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, as of 16 September 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.

Which month is cheapest for Philadelphia to Athens?

February is the cheapest of the next 5 months to travel from Philadelphia to Athens, at €587.19 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 Philadelphia to Athens?

No operator record names Philadelphia to Athens directly. American Airlines publish service areas covering both ends and may serve it, so we list them as possible operators rather than confirmed ones.

Is there a direct service from Philadelphia to Athens?

20 percent of the services we sell from Philadelphia to Athens are direct. The rest connect at Paris, Mestre, Milan, New York City, with about 47 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 Philadelphia to Athens use?

Services from Philadelphia to Athens by flight leave from Philadelphia PHL and arrive at Athens ATH. 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 Philadelphia to Athens?

0 of the 1 operators we sell from Philadelphia to Athens 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.

Derived from service area No carrier record names this exact pair. The operators listed publish a service area covering both places at a distance their mode plausibly carries people, which is evidence that the corridor is served and not evidence of a specific service. Pages state which, because presenting the two as the same thing would be dishonest.

Where no operator publishes a fare for a corridor, the price here is our own estimate, worked out from the real distance and the real operator through a fare curve that follows lead time, day of the week and season. It tells you roughly what the journey costs. It is not a seat anyone has agreed to sell, and the payment step will not take it.

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

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Philadelphia to Athens on 16 September 2026: 8296 km of route against 8054 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €626.13, and 14h 3m 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 Athens a set of days out that do not start at a station. We do not sell those either.

A guided tour group

Day trips out of Athens and across Greece

Day trips that leave Athens in the morning and cover a good part of Greece by evening.

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The two ends, compared

Philadelphia reaches 183 places in 27 countries on services we hold, over distances from 46 to 10,902 km. Athens reaches 161 places in 48 countries, from 37 to 9,125 km.

Other ways to make this journey

Leaving Philadelphia

  • 183Places you can leave for
  • 27Countries
  • 32Operators

Arriving in Athens

Leaving Athens

  • 161Places you can leave for
  • 48Countries
  • 96Operators

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