Cheapest€16.29
- ANEK Lines AN556113:188h 11m21:29ATHENS (ALL PORTS)CHANIA
Door to door 9h 41mCO2 31.7 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee
Athens to Chania ferry
Ferries from Athens to Chania start at €18.49 and take 9h 41m at their fastest.
Check dates and fares
Fares and seats move by the day. Price Athens to Chania on the date you actually want, rather than on the date this page was built.
The Ferries from Athens to Chania starts at €18.49 and takes 9h 41m door to door, run by 1 operator over 276 km, with around 12 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 30 days before departure.
- 9h 41mDoor to door
- 8h 11mMoving
- €18.49 to €34.44From
- 22:00 to 22:00First and last departure
- 1Per day
- 31.7 kgCO2
First and last are the departures the operators themselves filed for 17 September 2026, across 1 services on the day.
€18.49 to €34.44 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Worked out from this corridor rather than held for anybody. The operator sets the price on the day.
Sailings on 17 September 2026
Real sailings, with the fares the operator is charging. Check the season before you count on one.
22:0007:259h 25m
ANEK LINESVessel ELYROSDirect
PIRAEUS → CHANIA
from €52.50deckseat €60.00
Fares by date
What the operator is charging, by departure date.
17 September 2026
€52.50
ANEK LINES
This crossing was checked for one date, and that is the only date we hold a fare for. The operator sells the rest of the season.
The cheapest and the fastest on 5 October 2026
Ferry operators
| Operator | From | Fastest | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ANEK Lines | €16.29 | 9h 35m | 33 km/h | Changeable | Bar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Toilets |
The ferry gets you into Chania. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.
A room in Chania for the night the ferry gets in
Sort by distance from KTEL - Bus Station Terminal of Chania and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.
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When to book Athens to Chania
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €19.5990 days
- €16.2960 days
- €19.5945 days
- €14.6430 days
- €16.2921 days
- €18.4914 days
- €21.247 days
- €34.443 days
- €31.141 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €14.64.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 135 percent. The dearest point is €34.44, 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.
Which departure day costs least
Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
- €24.54Sun
- €18.49Mon
- €20.14Tue
- €21.24Wed
- €27.29Thu
- €24.54Fri
- €25.09Sat
Where you leave from and where you arrive
Athens
Ferry
- ATHENS (ALL PORTS)
Chaniá
Ferry
- CHANIA
- Souda
What the journey actually looks like
- How far it really runs
- The route covers 276 km against 276 km in a straight line, a detour of 3 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
- First and last departure
- The first service of the day leaves Athens at 06:54 and the last at 21:06, across 12 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
Ferries against the other ways to make this journey
| Mode | Door to door | Moving | At the ends | From | CO2 | Per day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flight | 3h 56m | 46m | 3h 10m | €31.41 | 70.1 kg | 32 |
| Ferry | 9h 41m | 8h 11m | 1h 30m | €18.49 | 31.7 kg | 12 |
Questions about Athens to Chania
The questions people actually ask about this journey, 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 the Ferry from Athens to Chania take?
The Ferry from Athens to Chania takes 9h 41m door to door, of which 8h 11m is spent moving. The route runs 276 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.
How much does the Ferry from Athens to Chania cost?
The Ferry from Athens to Chania starts at €18.49 for one passenger, as of 14 September 2026. A typical fare is €20.97. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.
Who runs the Ferry from Athens to Chania?
1 operators run the Ferry from Athens to Chania: ANEK Lines. Between them they file around 12 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.
Which terminal does the Ferry from Athens to Chania use?
The Ferry from Athens to Chania leaves from ATHENS (ALL PORTS) and arrives at CHANIA. Allow about 1h 30m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.
Is the Ferry the best way from Athens to Chania?
Travelling from Athens to Chania by Flight costs €31.41 and takes 3h 56m door to door, against 9h 41m by Ferry. Which is better depends on whether the money or the hours matter more on this trip. The comparison table on this page shows every mode side by side.
When should I book the Ferry from Athens to Chania?
Fares for the Ferry from Athens to Chania bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €14.64. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 135 percent, measured on 14 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
How much CO2 does the Ferry from Athens to Chania produce?
The Ferry from Athens to Chania produces about 31.7 kg of CO2 per passenger over 276 km, which works out at roughly 115 grams per passenger kilometre. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveller, not for the vehicle.
What is provided on board the Ferry from Athens to Chania?
Operators on the Ferry from Athens to Chania publish Bar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Toilets. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 9h 41m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.
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
- On this page
- Every figure above was computed for Athens to Chania on 14 September 2026: 276 km of route against 276 km in a straight line, 12 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €18.49, and 9h 41m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
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Being on the water gives Chania a set of days out that do not start at a station. We do not sell those either.
Day trips out of Chania and across Greece
Day trips that leave Chania in the morning and cover a good part of Greece by evening.
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