There are 12 ways to get from Greece to Lyon by plane, bus, busferry, train, or car
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Fly Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport
best- Fly from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER) to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport (LYS)plane HER - LYS
6h 6m€92–307Fly Athens International Airport to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport
cheapest- Fly from Athens International Airport (ATH) to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport (LYS)plane ATH - LYS
6h 24m€75–255Bus, bus and ferry, train
- Take the bus from Athens to Rrogozhinëbus
- Take the busferry from Rrogozhinë to Bari Portobusferry
- Take the train from Bari Centrale to Reggio Emilia Avtrain Fr
- Take the train from Reggio Emilia Av to Milano Centraletrain Fr
- Take the train from Milano Centrale to Lyon Part Dieutrain Fr
28h 23mDrive 2,488.5 km
- Drive from Athens to Lyoncar 2,488.5 km
25h€465–672Fly Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport
- Fly from Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia (SKG) to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport (LYS)plane SKG - LYS
9h 3m€108–278Fly Rhodes International Airport to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport
- Fly from Rhodes International Airport (RHO) to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport (LYS)plane RHO - LYS
6h 47m€107–225Fly Athens International Airport to Geneva International Airport, train
- Fly from Athens International Airport (ATH) to Geneva International Airport (GVA)plane ATH - GVA
- Take the train from Bellegarde to Lyon Part Dieutrain
9h 14m€95–277Fly Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Geneva International Airport, train
- Fly from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER) to Geneva International Airport (GVA)plane HER - GVA
- Take the train from Bellegarde to Lyon Part Dieutrain
9h 1m€142–329Train, bus, bus and ferry
- Take the train from Athens to Larissatrain Ic
- Take the bus from Larisa to Elbasanbus
- Take the busferry from Elbasan to Roma, Autostazione Tiburtinabusferry
- Take the train from Roma Tiburtina to Milano Centraletrain
- Take the train from Milano Centrale to Lyon Part Dieutrain Fr
30h 35mBus
- Take the bus from Athens to Beograd, Autobuska stanicabus
- Take the bus from Beograd, Autobuska stanica to Lyonbus
39h€170–220Bus via Tirana
- Take the bus from Athens to Tirana, Terminali Lindor I Autobusavebus
- Take the bus from Tirana to Lyon, Perrache Bus Stationbus
42h 17mBus via Aleksinac
- Take the bus from Athens to Aleksinac, Autobuska stanicabus
- Take the bus from Aleksinac, Autobuska stanica to Lyon, Ibis Hotelbus
2d€325–370
Greece to Lyon by bus
Comparing Your Travel Options
The cheapest way to get from Greece to Lyon is to fly which costs €75 - €260 and takes 6h 24m.
The fastest way to get from Greece to Lyon is to fly which takes 6h 6m and costs €90 - €310.
No, there is no direct bus from Greece to Lyon. However, there are services departing from Athens and arriving at Lyon via Beograd, Autobuska stanica. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 39h.
The distance between Greece and Lyon is 2071 km. The road distance is 2488.5 km.
The best way to get from Greece to Lyon without a car is to bus and bus and ferry and train which takes 28h 23m and costs .
It takes approximately 6h 6m to get from Greece to Lyon, including transfers.
Greece to Lyon bus services, operated by FP Travel, depart from Athens station.
The best way to get from Greece to Lyon is to fly which takes 6h 6m and costs €90 - €310. Alternatively, you can bus, which costs €170 - €220 and takes 39h.
Greece to Lyon bus services, operated by FP Travel, arrive at Beograd, Autobuska stanica station.
Lyon is 1h behind Greece. It is currently 10:25 in Greece and 09:25 in Lyon.
What companies run services between Greece and Lyon, France?
Volotea, easyJet, and three other airlines fly from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER) to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport (LYS) twice daily. Alternatively, you can take a bus from Athens to Lyon via Beograd, Autobuska stanica in around 39h.
- Website
- en.aegeanair.com
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 10m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €60–200
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport via Athens International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 6h
- When
- Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €150–230
Flights from Athens International Airport to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h
- When
- Saturday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €35–190
Flights from Rhodes International Airport to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €85–320
Flights from Rhodes International Airport to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport via Athens International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 47m
- When
- Saturday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €85–360
Flights from Athens International Airport to Geneva International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 51m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €75–210
Flights from Athens International Airport to Geneva International Airport via Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 32m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- €90–210
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Geneva International Airport via Athens International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 13m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €90–370
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 10m
- When
- Sunday and Wednesday
- Estimated price
- €75–440
Flights from Athens International Airport to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €50–210
Flights from Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport via Budapest
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 25m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- €70–300
Flights from Athens International Airport to Geneva International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €50–200
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Geneva International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 10m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €120–170
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Athens International Airport to Geneva International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 51m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €75–210
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Geneva International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 10m
- When
- Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €90–370
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Geneva International Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 12m
- When
- Saturday, Sunday, and Wednesday
- Estimated price
- €95–440
- Website
- volotea.com
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 10m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €60–200
Flights from Athens International Airport to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h
- When
- Saturday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €35–190
Flights from Rhodes International Airport to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €85–320
- Website
- transavia.com
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 15m
- When
- Monday to Friday
- Estimated price
- €100–480
Flights from Athens International Airport to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €75–380
Flights from Rhodes International Airport to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 35m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €100–490
- Website
- skyexpress.gr
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 15m
- When
- Tuesday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €75–290
Flights from Athens International Airport to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- €70–210
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €95–410
- Phone
- +39 06 5210550
- Website
- Trenitalia Frecce
Train from Bari Centrale to Reggio Emilia Av
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 5m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €95–170
- Website
- Trenitalia Frecce
Train from Reggio Emilia Av to Milano Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 50 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €20–35
- Website
- Trenitalia Frecce
- Phone
- +39.06.5210550
- Website
- Trenitalia
Train from Milano Centrale to Lyon Part Dieu
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 43m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €50–75
- Website
- Trenitalia
Train from Milano Centrale to Lyon Part Dieu
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 43m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €50–75
- Website
- Trenitalia
- Phone
- +33 1 84 94 36 35
- Website
- Oui.SNCF
Train from Bellegarde to Lyon Part Dieu
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 12m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €21–40
- Website
- Oui.SNCF
Train from Bellegarde to Lyon Part Dieu
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 12m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €21–40
- Website
- Oui.SNCF
- Phone
- 14511
- Website
- Hellenic Train S.A.
Train from Athens to Larissa
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €21–35
- Website
- Hellenic Train S.A.
- Phone
- +39 06 8937 1892
- Website
- Italo Treno
Train from Roma Tiburtina to Milano Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 5m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- €65–110
- Website
- Italo Treno
- Phone
- +210 52 25 550
- arttouroe@gmail.com
- Website
- arttour.gr
Bus from Athens to Rrogozhinë
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 23m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €40
- Schedules at
- arttour.gr
- Phone
- +393293958604
- info@pistoiaviaggi.com
- Website
- pistoia-viaggi.it
Busferry from Rrogozhinë to Bari Porto
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 43m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Schedules at
- pistoia-viaggi.it
Busferry from Elbasan to Roma, Autostazione Tiburtina
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 48m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Schedules at
- pistoia-viaggi.it
- Phone
- +30694 051 4160
- metroeurotirane@hotmail.com
- Website
- metroeuro.travel
Bus from Larisa to Elbasan
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 11m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Schedules at
- metroeuro.travel
- Phone
- +302105233969
- fptravel@otenet.gr
- Website
- fptravel.gr
Bus from Athens to Beograd, Autobuska stanica
- Ave. Duration
- 15h
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- €60–90
- Schedules at
- fptravel.gr
- Phone
- +381 800 334 334
- iuc@lasta.rs
- Website
- lasta.rs
Bus from Beograd, Autobuska stanica to Lyon
- Phone
- +2105203350
- Website
- top-lines.gr
Bus from Athens to Tirana, Terminali Lindor I Autobusave
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 17m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €45
- Schedules at
- top-lines.gr
- Phone
- +355 68 407 6607
- komatastours.al@gmail.com
- Website
- facebook.com
Bus from Athens to Tirana, Terminali Lindor I Autobusave
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 16m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €50
- Schedules at
- facebook.com
- Phone
- +355 68 204 4475
- amr_travel@hotmail.com
- Website
- facebook.com
Bus from Athens to Tirana, Terminali Lindor I Autobusave
- Ave. Duration
- 12h
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €45
- Schedules at
- facebook.com
- Phone
- +355 67 604 2191
- Website
- facebook.com
Bus from Athens to Tirana, Terminali Lindor I Autobusave
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 8m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Schedules at
- autobus.al
- Phone
- +355 68 20 63 724
- info@arjanitravel.com
- Website
- arjanitravel.com
Bus from Tirana to Lyon, Perrache Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 31h
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Schedules at
- arjanitravel.com
- Phone
- +30 2108219900
- vsiamos@otenet.gr
- Website
- siamostours.com
Bus from Athens to Aleksinac, Autobuska stanica
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 30m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €75–90
- Schedules at
- siamostours.com
- Phone
- +41 76 480 13 51
- info@optoptravel.rs
- Website
- optoptravel.rs
Bus from Aleksinac, Autobuska stanica to Lyon, Ibis Hotel
- Ave. Duration
- 32h
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- €250–280
- Schedules at
- optoptravel.rs
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