Flights from Riga to Athens start at €212.54 and take 6h 31m at their fastest.
The Flights from Riga to Athens starts at €212.54 and takes 6h 31m door to door, run by 1 operator over 2,172 km, with around 4 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.
Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.
Changes at Bucharest, with 45 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.
Door to door 7h 53mCO2 542.7 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes
Door to door 6h 31mCO2 534.3 kgChanges 0Fixed, no changes
Changes at Thessaloníki, with 54 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.
Door to door 8h 13mCO2 469.8 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes
Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.
| Operator | From | Fastest | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Air Baltic | €224.34 | 6h 20m | 740 km/h | Fixed fare | Not published |
That is the traveling done. What happens after you walk out into Athens is not something we sell.
Hotels and apartments near downtown, most of them with free cancellation, on a map that shows what is walkable.
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Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.
Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.
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The Flight from Riga to Athens takes 6h 31m door to door, of which 3h 21m is spent moving. The route runs 2,172 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.
The Flight from Riga to Athens starts at €212.54 for one passenger, checked on September 28, 2026. A typical fare is €199.86. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.
1 operators run the Flight from Riga to Athens: Air Baltic. Between them they file around 4 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.
The Flight from Riga to Athens leaves from Riga RIX and arrives at Athens ATH. 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.
Fares for the Flight from Riga to Athens bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €167.54. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 168 percent, measured on September 28, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
The Flight from Riga to Athens produces about 534.3 kg of CO2 per passenger over 2172 km, which works out at roughly 246 grams per passenger kilometer. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveler, not for the vehicle.
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 modeled number pass for a filed one.
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ATH is not in Athens, and the drive in from it is the part of the trip nobody plans. We sell the flight and stop at the terminal door.
A price agreed before you fly, a driver at arrivals, and a car big enough for the bags.
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