Cheapest€18.49
- Seajets S862406:147h 32m13:46KYTHIRAATHENS (ALL PORTS)
Door to door 9h 2mCO2 27.1 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee
Kýthira to Athens ferry
Ferries from Kýthira to Athens start at €22.34 and take 9h 2m at their fastest.
Check dates and fares
Fares and seats move by the day. Price Kýthira to Athens on the date you actually want, rather than on the date this page was built.
The Ferries from Kýthira to Athens starts at €22.34 and takes 9h 2m door to door, run by 1 operator over 236 km, with around 2 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 30 days before departure.
- 9h 2mDoor to door
- 7h 32mMoving
- €22.34 to €42.69From
- 12:45 to 12:45First and last departure
- 1Per day
- 27.1 kgCO2
First and last are the departures the operators themselves filed for 17 September 2026, across 1 services on the day.
€22.34 to €42.69 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.
12:4519:156h 30m
SEAJETSVessel AQUA JEWELDirect
KYTHIRA → PIRAEUS
from €21.50deckseat €26.00 €32.00
Fares by date
What the operator is charging, by departure date.
17 September 2026
€21.50
SEAJETS
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 30 September 2026
Ferry operators
| Operator | From | Fastest | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seajets | €18.49 | 8h 28m | 33 km/h | Changeable | Bar, Bicycles, Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Toilets |
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When to book Kýthira to Athens
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €20.6990 days
- €14.0960 days
- €22.3445 days
- €12.9930 days
- €18.4921 days
- €23.9914 days
- €28.947 days
- €42.693 days
- €29.491 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €12.99.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 229 percent. The dearest point is €42.69, 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.
- €22.34Sun
- €23.99Mon
- €25.09Tue
- €26.19Wed
- €26.19Thu
- €30.04Fri
- €25.09Sat
Where you leave from and where you arrive
Kýthira
Ferry
- KYTHIRA
Athens
Ferry
- ATHENS (ALL PORTS)
What the journey actually looks like
- Direct or connecting
- 50% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 50% involve one connection.
- How far it really runs
- The route covers 236 km against 214 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 Kíssamos. The gap between arriving and leaving is 79 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 12 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 Kýthira at 06:14 and the last at 07:30, across 2 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
Questions about Kýthira to Athens
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 Kýthira to Athens take?
The Ferry from Kýthira to Athens takes 9h 2m door to door, of which 7h 32m is spent moving. The route runs 236 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 Kýthira to Athens cost?
The Ferry from Kýthira to Athens starts at €22.34 for one passenger, as of 14 September 2026. A typical fare is €25.64. 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 Kýthira to Athens?
1 operators run the Ferry from Kýthira to Athens: Seajets. Between them they file around 2 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 Kýthira to Athens use?
The Ferry from Kýthira to Athens leaves from KYTHIRA and arrives at ATHENS (ALL PORTS). 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 Kýthira to Athens?
Fares for the Ferry from Kýthira to Athens bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €12.99. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 229 percent, measured on 14 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
How much CO2 does the Ferry from Kýthira to Athens produce?
The Ferry from Kýthira to Athens produces about 27.1 kg of CO2 per passenger over 236 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 Kýthira to Athens?
Operators on the Ferry from Kýthira to Athens publish Bar, Bicycles, Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Toilets. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 9h 2m 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 Kýthira to Athens on 14 September 2026: 236 km of route against 214 km in a straight line, 2 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €22.34, and 9h 2m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
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