Athens Buses and Trolleys

Airport to Athens center by express bus

The Athens International Airport is located 33 km (20,5 miles) southeast of Athens and the center is easily accessible via Attiki Avenue, a six-lane motorway constituting the Athens city ring road. The distance to the port of Piraeus is 45 km (27,9 miles).

Public transport to Athens and the port of Piraeus is provided by express airport bus connections 24 hours per day.

Express bus routes and times

A ticket to one of the above busses costs 3.20 Euro. The busses depart from the arrivals level, right outside the intra Schengen area, between doors 4-5. To get from the Athens International Airport to the center of Athens, you take express bus X95 which will take you in about 45 minutes to its end stop on the south side of Syntagma Square .

Airport to other destinations by bus

Airport-Rafina	Rafina-Airport		Airport-Markopoulo	Markopoulo-Airport
6:10	6:15		6:30	6:10
6:45	6:45		7:30	7:10
7:15	7:30		8:30	8:10
8:15	8:00		9:30	9:10
9:15	9:15		10:30	10:10
10:15	10:15		11:30	11:10
11:15	11:15		12:30	12:10
12:15	12:15		13:30	13:10
13:00	13:00		14:30	14:10
13:40	13:45		15:30	15:10
14:30	14:30		16:30	16:10
15:20	15:20		17:30	17:10
16:15	16:20		18:30	18:10
17:15	17:00		19:30	19:10
18:00	18:00		20:30	20:10
19:15	18:50		22:00	21:45
20:00	20:00		These buses depart from the arrival hall (close to door 5) at the Athens International Airport. Ticket prices for one-way trip is €3 for all services except for the port of Lavrio (€4)
21:00	21:00
22:15	21:45
Airport-Lavrio	Lavrio-Airport
6:30	5:30
7:30	6:00
8:30	7:00
9:30	8:00
10:30	9:00
11:30	10:00
12:30	11:00
13:30	12:00
14:30	13:00
15:30	14:00
16:30	15:00
17:30	16:00
18:30	17:00
19:30	18:00
20:30	19:00
22:00	21:00

City buses and trolleys

With 92% of its vehicles recently built, Athens can be proud to have one of the most modern bus networks in Europe. The city also holds the European record for environmentally busses. In Athens, 416 busses run on natural gas. Because of their “bubbles” exterior, they are easy recognizable.

A ticket for all busses and trolleys costs 0.50 Euro for a single journey. They can be bought in all metro stations and at about 3.500 news stands. They are sold individually or in bundles of 10 and must be validated by a machine on the bus.

City buses travel the streets and avenues taking you just about everywhere you want to go. This is a very inexpensive way of traveling. Seaside Attika buses go from the Akademia bus station while Kifisia and north suburbs buses go from Kaningos Square.

Athens has over 300 intelligent bus stops equipped with screens and audio announcements to inform users about buses and timetables. The buses can also communicate with the traffic lights to quicken the journey. Using gps, they can signal their position to the control centre and inform them of the number of passengers they are carrying. This allows the control centre to increase the number of bus runs if necessary.

Long distance buses:
The long distance buses are another common form of transport used in Greece. Being a mountainous country, Greece relies greatly on buses for transportation. Most cities have more than one bus per day even on long runs where the trip takes 5 hours or more. You can find the schedules of the most common Greek long distance busses on our long distance bus timetables page.

Buses in Athens are available daily from 05:00 to 24:00

Athens' city bus routes

Route Number	Route
1	Attikis square - Tzizifies - Moschato
2	Kypseli - Pagrati - Kaisariani
3	Patissia - Red Cross Hospital
4	Ano Kypseli - Aghios Artemios
5	Papadiamanti square - Koukaki - Kallithea
6	Kokkino Mylo - Lavriou square
7	Ambelokipoi - Omonia
8	Ambelokipoi - Kaniggos square
9	Ano Kypseli - Petralona
10	Athens center - Nea Smyrni - Paleo Faliro
11	Koliatsou square - Pagrati - Nea Elvetia
12	Peristeri - Zappio
13	Lamprini - Akadimias street - Neo Psychiko
14	Papadiamanti square - Alexandras ave. - Neo Psychiko
15	Zappeion - Polygono
16	Pireaus center - Renti
17	Pireaus center - Keratsini
20	Neo Faliro - Drapetsona

Athens City Sightseeing Bus (hop on-hop off)

Discover Athens with the Athens City Sightseeing Bus . This bus, whose route begins and ends on Syntagma Square, passes by the city's most important museums and monuments, including the Acropolis, Thissio, Monastiraki, Varvakeios (Central) Market, Benaki Museum, the National Gallery, etc.

Schedule: the line starts from and terminates on Syntagma Square (Filelinon Street).

Period	Time table	Frequency
Summer (30-03-09 - 25-10-09)	09:00 - 18:00	30'
Winter (26-10-09 - 29-03-10)	10:00 - 17:00	60'
(not on 17 November, 25 December and 1 January)

The bus schedules can also be found at every (blue) bus stop sign on the line.

Round-trip duration: about 90 minutes. Pre-recorded commentary is provided on the bus in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Japanese and Greek. the bus is wheelchair accessible.

Tickets: can be purchased on the bus: adults 18 Euro, children 5-15 years 8 Euro. The ticket is valid for 24 hours after its first validation on the bus for unlimited travel on the Athens City Sightseeing Bus. Tickets should be kept and shown whenever asked for by the bus attendant or a transport inspector.