Athens to Sitia ferry

Ferries from Athens to Sitia start at €30.04 and take 14h 24m at their fastest.

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Toplou monastery (Moni Toplou), Crete, Greece: garden gate

The Ferries from Athens to Sitia starts at €30.04 and takes 14h 24m door to door, run by 1 operator over 412 km, with around 3 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 21 days before departure.

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

  • 14h 24mDoor to door
  • 12h 54mMoving
  • €30.04 to €59.74From
  • 17:00 to 17:00First and last departure
  • 1Per day
  • 47.4 kgCO2

First and last are the departures the operators themselves filed for 25 September 2026, across 1 services on the day.

€30.04 to €59.74 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 25 September 2026

Real sailings, with the fares the operator is charging. Check the season before you count on one.

  1. 17:0007:4514h 45m

    BLUE STAR FERRIESVessel BLUE STAR CHIOSDirect

    PIRAEUSSITIA

    from €46.50deckseat €64.00 €95.50

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Fares by date

What the operator is charging, by departure date.

25 September 2026

€46.50

BLUE STAR FERRIES

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.

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 29 September 2026

Cheapest€25.09
  1. Blue Star BS526206:1012h 54m19:04ATHENS (ALL PORTS)SITIA

Door to door 14h 24mCO2 47.4 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Carriers

Ferry operators

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorFromFastestTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
Blue Star€25.0913h 31m33 km/hChangeableBar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Toilets
  • Blue Star

The ferry gets you into Sitia. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.

A hotel room

A room in Sitia for the night the ferry gets in

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Booking window

When to book Athens to Sitia

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

  1. €35.5390 days
  2. €27.8460 days
  3. €32.7945 days
  4. €30.0430 days
  5. €26.1921 days
  6. €34.4314 days
  7. €41.597 days
  8. €54.793 days
  9. €56.441 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 21 days ahead, at €26.19.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 116 percent. The dearest point is €56.44, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 21 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Day of the week

Which departure day costs least

Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.

  1. €39.94Sun
  2. €34.43Mon
  3. €30.04Tue
  4. €36.63Wed
  5. €44.88Thu
  6. €39.39Fri
  7. €43.79Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Athens

Ferry
  • ATHENS (ALL PORTS)

Sitia

Ferry
  • SITIA
The journey

What the journey actually looks like

Direct or connecting
25% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 75% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 412 km against 375 km in a straight line, a detour of 10 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Rhodes, Irákleion, Karpathos. The gap between arriving and leaving is 64 minutes, of which about 14 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 15 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.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Athens at 06:10 and the last at 07:30, across 3 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Athens to Sitia

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 Sitia take?

The Ferry from Athens to Sitia takes 14h 24m door to door, of which 12h 54m is spent moving. The route runs 412 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 Sitia cost?

The Ferry from Athens to Sitia starts at €30.04 for one passenger, as of 14 September 2026. A typical fare is €35.53. 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 Sitia?

1 operators run the Ferry from Athens to Sitia: Blue Star. Between them they file around 3 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 Sitia use?

The Ferry from Athens to Sitia leaves from ATHENS (ALL PORTS) and arrives at SITIA. 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.

When should I book the Ferry from Athens to Sitia?

Fares for the Ferry from Athens to Sitia bottom out around 21 days ahead, at €26.19. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 116 percent, measured on 14 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Ferry from Athens to Sitia produce?

The Ferry from Athens to Sitia produces about 47.4 kg of CO2 per passenger over 412 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 Sitia?

Operators on the Ferry from Athens to Sitia publish Bar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Toilets. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 14h 24m 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 Sitia on 14 September 2026: 412 km of route against 375 km in a straight line, 3 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €30.04, and 14h 24m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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