Karpathos to Chálki ferry

Ferries from Karpathos to Chálki start at €47.64 and take 21h 54m at their fastest.

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The Ferries from Karpathos to Chálki starts at €47.64 and takes 21h 54m door to door, run by 1 operator over 672 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 30 days before departure.

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

  • 21h 54mDoor to door
  • 20h 24mMoving
  • €47.64 to €94.39From
  • 08:00 to 08:00First and last departure
  • 1Per day
  • 77.3 kgCO2

First and last are the departures the operators themselves filed for 29 September 2026, across 1 services on the day.

€47.64 to €94.39 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 29 September 2026

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

  1. 08:0010:402h 40m

    BLUE STAR FERRIESVessel BLUE STAR CHIOSDirect

    KARPATHOSCHALKI

    from €11.00deckseat €13.00 €33.50 €33.50

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Fares by date

What the operator is charging, by departure date.

29 September 2026

€11.00

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€39.39
  1. Blue Star BS422706:1020h 24m02:34KARPATHOSCHALKI

Door to door 21h 54mCO2 77.3 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€39.3921h 18m33 km/hChangeableBar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Toilets
  • Blue Star

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A room in Chálki for the night the ferry gets in

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Booking window

When to book Karpathos to Chálki

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

  1. €56.9990 days
  2. €42.1460 days
  3. €50.3945 days
  4. €40.4930 days
  5. €41.5921 days
  6. €56.9914 days
  7. €56.447 days
  8. €94.393 days
  9. €82.291 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €40.49.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 133 percent. The dearest point is €94.39, 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.
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. €64.14Sun
  2. €56.44Mon
  3. €47.64Tue
  4. €52.59Wed
  5. €70.74Thu
  6. €60.29Fri
  7. €70.74Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Karpathos

Ferry
  • KARPATHOS
  • KARPATHOS (ALL PORTS)

Chálki

Ferry
  • CHALKI
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 672 km against 611 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 Anáfi, Piraeus, Athens, Firá. The gap between arriving and leaving is 68 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 Karpathos at 06:10 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 Karpathos to Chálki

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 Karpathos to Chálki take?

The Ferry from Karpathos to Chálki takes 21h 54m door to door, of which 20h 24m is spent moving. The route runs 672 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 Karpathos to Chálki cost?

The Ferry from Karpathos to Chálki starts at €47.64 for one passenger, as of 14 September 2026. A typical fare is €49.84. 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 Karpathos to Chálki?

1 operators run the Ferry from Karpathos to Chálki: Blue Star. 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 Karpathos to Chálki use?

The Ferry from Karpathos to Chálki leaves from KARPATHOS and arrives at CHALKI. 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 Karpathos to Chálki?

Fares for the Ferry from Karpathos to Chálki bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €40.49. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 133 percent, measured on 14 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Ferry from Karpathos to Chálki produce?

The Ferry from Karpathos to Chálki produces about 77.3 kg of CO2 per passenger over 672 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 Karpathos to Chálki?

Operators on the Ferry from Karpathos to Chálki publish Bar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Toilets. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 21h 54m 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.

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On this page
Every figure above was computed for Karpathos to Chálki on 14 September 2026: 672 km of route against 611 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €47.64, and 21h 54m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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