There are 11 ways to get from Liverpool to Athens by train, plane, bus, car, car train, busferry, or car ferry
Select an option below to see step-by-step directions and to compare ticket prices and travel times in Rome2Rio's travel planner.
Train to Manchester Airport, fly
best- Take the train from Liverpool Lime Street to Manchester Airporttrain
- Fly from Manchester Airport (MAN) to Athens International Airport (ATH)plane MAN - ATH
8h 20m€89–259Train, bus
- Take the train from Liverpool Lime Street to London Eustontrain
- Take the train from London St Pancras Intl to Paris Nordtrain Eil
- Take the train from Paris Est to Strasbourgtrain Tgv
- Take the bus from Strasbourg Bahnhof to Tiranabus
- Take the bus from Tirana, Terminali Lindor I Autobusave to Peiraiasbus
39h 32mTrain, bus via Budapest
- Take the train from Liverpool Lime Street to London Eustontrain
- Take the train from London St Pancras Intl to Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Miditrain Eil
- Take the train from Brussel-Zuid to Praha hl.n.train
- Take the train from Praha Hlavni Nadrazi to Budapest-Delitrain Ic
- Take the bus from Budapest to Thessaloníkibus
- Take the train from Thessaloniki to Athenstrain Ic
47h 31m€438–776Drive, Eurotunnel
- Drive from Liverpool to Folkestonecar
- Take the cartrain from Folkestone to Calais-Fréthuncartrain
- Drive from Calais-Fréthun to Athenscar
33h 16m€772–1,059Fly from Liverpool
- Fly from Liverpool (LPL) to Athens International Airport (ATH)plane LPL - ATH
10h 12m€93–218Train to Birmingham Airport, fly
- Take the train from Liverpool Lime Street to Birmingham New Streettrain
- Fly from Birmingham Airport (BHX) to Athens International Airport (ATH)plane BHX - ATH
8h 58m€117–338Train to London Heathrow Airport, fly
- Take the train from Liverpool Lime Street to London Eustontrain
- Fly from London Heathrow Airport (LHR) to Athens International Airport (ATH)plane LHR - ATH
9h 51m€198–441Train to London Stansted Airport, fly
- Take the train from Liverpool Lime Street to London Eustontrain
- Fly from London Stansted Airport (STN) to Athens International Airport (ATH)plane STN - ATH
9h 57m€178–421Bus
- Take the bus from Liverpool, Liverpool One to Wembley Stadium Pink Coach Parking South Waybus W11
- Take the bus from Bounds Green Road London to Tiranabus
- Take the bus from Tirana, Terminali Lindor I Autobusave to Athensbus
2dBus and ferry, bus
- Take the busferry from Liverpool Elmway close to Timisoarabusferry
- Take the bus from Timișoara to Belgrade bus stationbus
- Take the bus from Belgrade, "BAS" bus station, block 42, Antifašisticke borbe to Atheny, F.P. Travel Holidaysbus
2d 14h€198–309Drive, car ferry
- Drive from Liverpool to Port of Dovercar
- Take the carferry from Port of Dover to Calaiscarferry
- Drive from Calais to Athenscar
34h 23m€665–1,013
Manchester Airport (MAN) to Athens International Airport (ATH) flights
Comparing Your Travel Options
The cheapest way to get from Liverpool to Athens is to fly which costs €90 - €220 and takes 10h 12m.
The fastest way to get from Liverpool to Athens is to train and fly which takes 8h 20m and costs €85 - €260.
No, there is no direct bus from Liverpool to Athens. However, there are services departing from Liverpool, Liverpool One and arriving at Athens via Mitchell Way, Bounds Green Road London and Tirana, Terminali Lindor I Autobusave. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 2 days 0h.
The distance between Liverpool and Athens is 2738 km.
The best way to get from Liverpool to Athens without a car is to train and bus which takes 39h 32m and costs .
It takes approximately 8h 20m to get from Liverpool to Athens, including transfers.
Liverpool to Athens bus services, operated by National Express, depart from Liverpool, Liverpool One station.
The best way to get from Liverpool to Athens is to fly which takes 10h 12m and costs €90 - €220. Alternatively, you can bus, which costs and takes 2 days 0h.
Liverpool to Athens bus services, operated by National Express, arrive at Wembley Stadium Pink Coach Parking South Way station.
Athens is 2h ahead of Liverpool. It is currently 8:39 PM in Liverpool and 10:39 PM in Athens.
What companies run services between Liverpool, England and Athens, Greece?
Ryanair, easyJet, and two other airlines fly from Liverpool (LPL) to Athens International Airport (ATH) once daily. Alternatively, you can take a bus from Liverpool, Liverpool One to Athens via Wembley Stadium Pink Coach Parking South Way, Mitchell Way, Hobart Corner, Bounds Green Road London, Tirana, and Tirana, Terminali Lindor I Autobusave in around 2d.
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Manchester Airport to Athens International Airport via Bologna
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 25m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €65–220
Flights from Liverpool to Athens International Airport via Milan Bergamo
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 55m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €60–210
Flights from Liverpool to Athens International Airport via Budapest
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 40m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- €60–230
Flights from London Stansted Airport to Athens International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 34m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €70–180
Flights from London Stansted Airport to Athens International Airport via Bologna
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 35m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €70–180
Flights from London Stansted Airport to Athens International Airport via Venice
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 57m
- When
- Thursday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday
- Estimated price
- €70–180
- Website
- en.aegeanair.com
Flights from Manchester Airport to Athens International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 50m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €100–200
Flights from Liverpool to Athens International Airport via Sofia
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 15m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €65–220
Flights from Liverpool to Athens International Airport via Tirana
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 25m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- €60–210
Flights from Liverpool to Athens International Airport via Corfu
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 15m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €60–230
Flights from London Heathrow Airport to Athens International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 37m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €75–240
- Website
- britishairways.com
Flights from London Heathrow Airport to Athens International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 48m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €100–280
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Manchester Airport to Athens International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 55m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €55–230
- Website
- jet2.com
Flights from Manchester Airport to Athens International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €80–170
Flights from Birmingham Airport to Athens International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 50m
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €100–150
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Birmingham Airport to Athens International Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 45m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €90–310
Flights from London Stansted Airport to Athens International Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 50m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €85–300
- Website
- air.bg
Flights from Liverpool to Athens International Airport via Sofia
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 15m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €65–220
- Phone
- +44 800 200 6060
- [email protected]
- Website
- Northern Trains Limited
Train from Liverpool Lime Street to Manchester Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 25m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €16–30
- Website
- Northern Trains Limited
- Phone
- +44 345 600 1671
- [email protected]
- Website
- TransPennine Express
Train from Liverpool Lime Street to Manchester Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 55 min
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €14–24
- Website
- TransPennine Express
- Phone
- +44 (0)345 528 0253
- Website
- Avanti West Coast
Train from Liverpool Lime Street to London Euston
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 20m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €75–130
- Website
- Avanti West Coast
Train from Liverpool Lime Street to London Euston
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 20m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €75–130
- Website
- Avanti West Coast
Train from Liverpool Lime Street to Birmingham New Street
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 38m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €35–55
- Website
- Avanti West Coast
Train from Liverpool Lime Street to London Euston
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 20m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €75–130
- Website
- Avanti West Coast
Train from Liverpool Lime Street to London Euston
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 20m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €75–130
- Website
- Avanti West Coast
- Phone
- +44 (0)3432 186 186
- Website
- Eurostar
Train from London St Pancras Intl to Paris Nord
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 28m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €170–280
- Website
- Eurostar
Train from London St Pancras Intl to Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 1m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €140–230
- Website
- Eurostar
- Phone
- +33 1 84 94 36 35
- Website
- TGV inOui
Train from Paris Est to Strasbourg
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 46m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €85–130
- Website
- TGV inOui
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Paris Est to Strasbourg
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 46m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €75–170
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
- Phone
- +33 1 84 94 36 35
- Website
- Oui.SNCF
Train from Paris Est to Strasbourg
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 48m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €75–130
- Website
- Oui.SNCF
- Phone
- +31302035833
- [email protected]
- Website
- European Sleeper
Train from Brussel-Zuid to Praha hl.n.
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 34m
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- €100–230
- Website
- European Sleeper
- Phone
- +420 222 222 221
- [email protected]
- Website
- RegioJet
Train from Praha Hlavni Nadrazi to Budapest-Deli
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 13m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- €30–55
- Website
- RegioJet
- Phone
- 14511
- Website
- Hellenic Train S.A.
Train from Thessaloniki to Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 9m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €30–50
- Website
- Hellenic Train S.A.
- Phone
- +44 (0) 8443 35 35 35
- [email protected]
- Website
- LeShuttle
Car train from Folkestone to Calais-Fréthun
- Ave. Duration
- 35 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €140
- Website
- LeShuttle
- Standard fare
- €140
- Phone
- +44 333 311 0039
- [email protected]
- Website
- West Midlands Trains
Train from Liverpool Lime Street to Birmingham New Street
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €30–85
- Website
- West Midlands Trains
- Phone
- +355 68 20 63 724
- [email protected]
- Website
- arjanitravel.com
Bus from Strasbourg Bahnhof to Tirana
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 52m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Schedules at
- arjanitravel.com
- Phone
- +355 69 617 8170
- [email protected]
- Website
- facebook.com
Bus from Tirana, Terminali Lindor I Autobusave to Peiraias
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 45m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €40–85
- Schedules at
- Diamant Travel
- Phone
- +302105233969
- [email protected]
- Website
- fptravel.gr
Bus from Budapest to Thessaloníki
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 45m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €60–90
- Schedules at
- fptravel.gr
- Phone
- +44 (0)3717 81 81 81
- Website
- National Express
Bus from Liverpool, Liverpool One to Wembley Stadium Pink Coach Parking South Way
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 30m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €40–70
- Website
- National Express
- Phone
- +355 69 232 8000
- [email protected]
- Website
- facebook.com
Bus from Bounds Green Road London to Tirana
- Ave. Duration
- 29h 39m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Schedules at
- facebook.com
- Phone
- +2105203350
- Website
- top-lines.gr
Bus from Tirana, Terminali Lindor I Autobusave to Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 17m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €45
- Schedules at
- top-lines.gr
- Phone
- +355 68 204 4475
- [email protected]
- Website
- facebook.com
Bus from Tirana, Terminali Lindor I Autobusave to Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 12h
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €45
- Schedules at
- facebook.com
- Phone
- +355 68 407 6607
- [email protected]
- Website
- facebook.com
Bus from Tirana, Terminali Lindor I Autobusave to Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 22m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €50
- Schedules at
- facebook.com
- Phone
- +355 67 604 2191
- Website
- facebook.com
Bus from Tirana, Terminali Lindor I Autobusave to Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 15h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Schedules at
- autobus.al
- Phone
- 0040263701919
- [email protected]
- Website
- latinoexpres.ro
Busferry from Liverpool Elmway close to Timisoara
- Ave. Duration
- 39h 50m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €65–170
- Schedules at
- latinoexpres.ro
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- [email protected]
- Website
- Flixbus
Bus from Timișoara to Belgrade bus station
- Ave. Duration
- 3h
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €14–22
- Website
- Flixbus
- Phone
- +381 011 7614787
- [email protected]
- Website
- fptravelpatrikalos.rs
Bus from Belgrade, "BAS" bus station, block 42, Antifašisticke borbe to Atheny, F.P. Travel Holidays
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 18m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €116
- Schedules at
- fptravelpatrikalos.rs
- Phone
- +353 818 300 400
- [email protected]
- Website
- Irish Ferries
Car ferry from Port of Dover to Calais
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €30–90
- Website
- Irish Ferries
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