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Athens to Salzburg

Compare trains, buses, flights and ferries from Athens to Salzburg. From €114.01, fastest 5h 24m, with the total price and every fee shown up front.

Athens to Salzburg runs about 5 times a day, with the first departure around 06:41 and the last around 07:30. One passenger pays between €128.17 and €136.43, every fee included, depending on the operator and the way you travel. The fastest door to door is 5h 24m over 1,435 km, on services run by 1 operator across 1 mode.

Checked September 14, 2026Priced for September 29, 2026One passenger, all fees included

What one seat costs

The spread between the cheapest and dearest typical fare on this corridor, across 1 operator and 1 way of making the journey. The operator sets the price on the day.

Typical fares

€128.17 to €136.43

  • 192%Moves across the booking window

When it runs, leaving Athens

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.

  • 06:41First departure
  • 07:30Last departure
  • 5Services per day
  • 20%Run direct

Fares by date

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

Typical fares

  1. about €221.98Tue15
  2. about €259.15Wed16
  3. about €289.83Thu17
  4. about €218.44Fri18
  5. about €241.45Sat19
  6. about €211.95Sun20
  7. about €177.14Mon21
  8. about €136.43Tue22
  9. about €153.54Wed23
  10. about €175.37Thu24
  11. about €185.40Fri25
  12. about €178.91Sat26
  13. about €181.27Sun27
  14. about €161.80Mon28
  15. about €114.01Tue29
  16. about €125.81Wed30
  17. about €157.67Thu1
  18. about €138.20Fri2
  19. about €132.89Sat3
  20. about €120.50Sun4
  21. about €125.22Mon5

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 Salzburg. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.

A hotel room

A room in Salzburg for the night the flight gets in

Sort by distance from Salzburg Hauptbahnhof 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 Salzburg

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

  1. €125.8190 days
  2. €114.6060 days
  3. €125.8145 days
  4. €99.2630 days
  5. €125.2221 days
  6. €161.8014 days
  7. €177.147 days
  8. €289.833 days
  9. €221.981 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €99.26.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 192 percent. The most expensive point is €289.83, 3 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 30 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
€289.83€99.261371421304560

Book now Fares on this route are lowest around 30 days ahead. You are inside that window.

This corridor, specifically

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

Clocks

1 hours behind on arrival. You land earlier than the journey suggests.

The shape of it

1,435 km

1,393 km as the crow flies, 3% further by the route services actually take. The bearing runs north-west.

Who lives at each end

664,046157,245

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

How we know

Observed

Every operator on this corridor is named in a carrier record.

The route

AthensAthensSalzburgSalzburg
The journey

What the journey actually 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 1,435 km against 1,393 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 Ljubljana, Split, Belgrade, Corfu. The gap between arriving and leaving is 58 minutes, of which about 14 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.

The fare from SZG into Salzburg is the one price on this trip we cannot show you, because it is not ours.

A taxi stand outside an airport terminal

A car waiting when you land in Salzburg

Settled in advance, so the ride into Salzburg costs what it said it would rather than what the cab stand 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

Baggage storage near Salzburg Hauptbahnhof

Most of the points near Salzburg Hauptbahnhof open before the first train and close after the last one.

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Questions about Athens to Salzburg

The questions people actually ask about this trip, 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 Salzburg?

The fastest journey from Athens to Salzburg takes 5h 24m door to door, of which 2h 19m is spent moving, on the flight. Most services take around 5h 32m, 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 Salzburg?

The cheapest fare from Athens to Salzburg is €114.01, as of September 14, 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €204.87. 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 Salzburg?

The cheapest way from Athens to Salzburg is by flight, at €136.43 for one passenger on September 29, 2026. That journey takes 5h 29m 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 Salzburg?

Fares from Athens to Salzburg bottom out around 30 days before departure, at €99.26. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the most expensive lead time is 192 percent, measured on September 14, 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.

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

Tuesday is the cheapest day to depart from Athens to Salzburg, at €136.43. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, as of September 14, 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 Salzburg?

February is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from Athens to Salzburg, at €86.87 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 service from Athens to Salzburg?

1 operators sell services from Athens to Salzburg across 1 mode: Aegean 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 Salzburg?

20 percent of the services we sell from Athens to Salzburg are direct. The rest connect at Ljubljana, Split, Belgrade, Corfu, with about 58 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 Salzburg use?

Services from Athens to Salzburg by flight leave from Athens ATH and arrive at Salzburg SZG. 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 Salzburg?

0 of the 1 operators we sell from Athens to Salzburg 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 shows this named operator serving this named pair, and we carry that through unchanged.

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 Athens to Salzburg on September 14, 2026: 1435 km of route against 1393 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €114.01, and 5h 24m 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 Salzburg 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 Salzburg and across Austria

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

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The two ends, compared

Athens reaches 159 places in 48 countries on services we hold, over distances from 37 to 9,125 km. Salzburg reaches 157 places in 34 countries, from 69 to 4,466 km.

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Leaving Athens

  • 159Places you can leave for
  • 48Countries
  • 96Operators

Arriving in Salzburg

Leaving Salzburg

  • 157Places you can leave for
  • 34Countries
  • 44Operators

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