Chios to Mytilene ferry

Ferries from Chios to Mytilene start at €11.88 and take 4h 39m at their fastest.

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The Ferries from Chios to Mytilene starts at €11.88 and takes 4h 39m door to door, run by 2 operators over 99 km, with around 7 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 90 days before departure.

Checked 14 September 2026Priced for 21 September 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 4h 39mDoor to door
  • 3h 9mMoving
  • €11.88 to €15.74From
  • 06:50 to 06:50First and last departure
  • 1Per day
  • 11.4 kgCO2

First and last are the departures the operators themselves filed for 17 September 2026, across 1 services on the day.

€11.88 to €15.74 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 17 September 2026

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

  1. 06:5009:503h

    HELLENIC SEAWAYSVessel NISSOS SAMOSDirect

    CHIOSMITILINI (LESBOS)

    from €19.50deckseat €24.00

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Fares by date

What the operator is charging, by departure date.

17 September 2026

€19.50

HELLENIC SEAWAYS

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 21 September 2026

Cheapest€11.88
  1. Blue Star BS356406:363h 30m10:06CHIOSMITILINI (LESBOS)

Door to door 5hCO2 11.4 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Fastest€11.88
  1. Hellenic Seaways HS751914:063h 9m17:15CHIOSMITILINI (LESBOS)

Door to door 4h 39mCO2 11.4 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.
OperatorFastest
Blue Star4h 38m
Hellenic Seaways4h 39m

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

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Booking window

When to book Chios to Mytilene

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

  1. €11.8890 days
  2. €11.8860 days
  3. €11.8845 days
  4. €11.8830 days
  5. €11.8821 days
  6. €11.8814 days
  7. €11.887 days
  8. €15.743 days
  9. €12.441 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €11.88.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 32 percent. The dearest point is €15.74, 3 days out.
What that means
Today sits outside the cheap window, which opens around 90 days before departure. There is no advantage to booking this minute.
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. €11.88Sun
  2. €11.88Mon
  3. €11.88Tue
  4. €11.88Wed
  5. €11.89Thu
  6. €11.88Fri
  7. €11.88Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Chios

Ferry
  • CHIOS
  • CHIOS (ALL PORTS)
  • Chios
  • MESTA (CHIOS)

Mytilene

Ferry
  • MITILINI (LESBOS)
  • Mytilene
The journey

What the journey actually looks like

Direct or connecting
57% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 43% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 99 km against 90 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 Mykonos, Psará, Oinoússes. The gap between arriving and leaving is 67 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 14 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is ours to fix and you are rebooked at no charge.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Chios at 06:36 and the last at 14:23, across 7 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Chios to Mytilene

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 Chios to Mytilene take?

The Ferry from Chios to Mytilene takes 4h 39m door to door, of which 3h 9m is spent moving. The route runs 99 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 Chios to Mytilene cost?

The Ferry from Chios to Mytilene starts at €11.88 for one passenger, as of 14 September 2026. A typical fare is €11.88. 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 Chios to Mytilene?

2 operators run the Ferry from Chios to Mytilene: Blue Star, Hellenic Seaways. Between them they file around 7 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 Chios to Mytilene use?

The Ferry from Chios to Mytilene leaves from CHIOS and arrives at MITILINI (LESBOS). 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 Chios to Mytilene?

Fares for the Ferry from Chios to Mytilene bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €11.88. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 32 percent, measured on 14 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Ferry from Chios to Mytilene produce?

The Ferry from Chios to Mytilene produces about 11.4 kg of CO2 per passenger over 99 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 Chios to Mytilene?

Operators on the Ferry from Chios to Mytilene publish Bar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Toilets. That is what 2 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 4h 39m 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 Chios to Mytilene on 14 September 2026: 99 km of route against 90 km in a straight line, 7 services a day, 2 operators a cheapest fare of €11.88, and 4h 39m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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