Íos to Kéa ferry

Ferries from Íos to Kéa start at €11.89 and take 6h 4m at their fastest.

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A view over the Oosterdok water of the old city Amsterdam to the left, and over construction sites for coming modern buildings at the Oosterdokseiland area; free photo Amsterdam 2005, Fons Heijnsbroek

The Ferries from Íos to Kéa starts at €11.89 and takes 6h 4m door to door, run by 1 operator over 144 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 90 days before departure.

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

  • 6h 4mDoor to door
  • 4h 34mMoving
  • €11.89 to €23.43From
  • 06:41 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 5Per day
  • 16.6 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on 29 September 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€11.89 to €23.43 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.

Fares by date

What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.

Typical fares

  1. about €21.79Tue15
  2. about €21.24Wed16
  3. about €22.34Thu17
  4. about €16.84Fri18
  5. about €23.43Sat19
  6. about €19.04Sun20
  7. about €11.89Mon21
  8. about €11.89Tue22
  9. about €15.74Wed23
  10. about €16.29Thu24
  11. about €15.74Fri25
  12. about €16.84Sat26
  13. about €14.64Sun27
  14. about €12.44Mon28

Based on what this route has cost recently. The operator sets the price on the day, and the live fare is confirmed when you book.

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 29 September 2026

Cheapest€11.88
  1. Hellenic Seaways HS902606:414h 34m11:15IOSKEA

Door to door 6h 4mCO2 16.6 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
Hellenic Seaways€11.885h 53m33 km/hChangeableBar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Toilets

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

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A room in Kéa for the night the ferry gets in

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Booking window

When to book Íos to Kéa

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. €12.4414 days
  7. €11.897 days
  8. €22.343 days
  9. €21.791 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 88 percent. The dearest point is €22.34, 3 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 90 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. €14.64Sun
  2. €11.89Mon
  3. €11.89Tue
  4. €15.74Wed
  5. €16.29Thu
  6. €15.74Fri
  7. €16.84Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Íos

Ferry
  • IOS
  • IOS (ALL PORTS)

Kéa

Ferry
  • KEA
  • KEA (ALL PORTS)
The journey

What the journey actually looks like

Direct or connecting
20% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 80% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 144 km against 131 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 Páros, Kýthnos, Síkinos, Náxos. The gap between arriving and leaving is 45 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 20 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 Íos at 06:41 and the last at 07:30, across 5 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Íos to Kéa

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 Íos to Kéa take?

The Ferry from Íos to Kéa takes 6h 4m door to door, of which 4h 34m is spent moving. The route runs 144 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 Íos to Kéa cost?

The Ferry from Íos to Kéa starts at €11.89 for one passenger, as of 14 September 2026. A typical fare is €21.77. 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 Íos to Kéa?

1 operators run the Ferry from Íos to Kéa: Hellenic Seaways. Between them they file around 5 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 Íos to Kéa use?

The Ferry from Íos to Kéa leaves from IOS and arrives at KEA. 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 Íos to Kéa?

Fares for the Ferry from Íos to Kéa bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €11.88. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 88 percent, measured on 14 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Ferry from Íos to Kéa produce?

The Ferry from Íos to Kéa produces about 16.6 kg of CO2 per passenger over 144 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 Íos to Kéa?

Operators on the Ferry from Íos to Kéa publish Bar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Toilets. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 6h 4m 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 Íos to Kéa on 14 September 2026: 144 km of route against 131 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €11.89, and 6h 4m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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