Mytilene to Ayvalık ferry

Ferries from Mytilene to Ayvalık start at €11.88 and take 2h 39m at their fastest.

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The Ferries from Mytilene to Ayvalık starts at €11.88 and takes 2h 39m door to door, run by 4 operators over 29 km, with around 24 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 90 days before departure.

Checked 14 September 2026Priced for 15 September 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 2h 39mDoor to door
  • 1h 9mMoving
  • €11.88From
  • 08:40 to 17:45First and last departure
  • 6Per day
  • 3.3 kgCO2

First and last are the departures the operators themselves filed for 17 September 2026, across 6 services 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. 08:4009:551h 15m

    TURYOL S.S.Vessel KAPTAN SEVKETDirect

    MITILINI (LESBOS)AYVALIK

    from €30.00deck

  2. 16:3018:001h 30m

    JALE TURIZMVessel FATIH JALEDirect

    MITILINI (LESBOS)AYVALIK

    from €30.00deck

  3. 17:4518:3045m

    TURYOL S.S.Vessel CATAMARAN SAMOSDirect

    MITILINI (LESBOS)AYVALIK

    from €35.00deck

  4. 17:4518:3550m

    JALEM TURVessel NAZLI JALE HSSDirect

    MITILINI (LESBOS)AYVALIK

    from €35.00deck

  5. 17:4519:001h 15m

    UGUR JALE LINESVessel SEDA JALEDirect

    MITILINI (LESBOS)AYVALIK

    from €30.00deck

  6. 17:4519:051h 20m

    TURYOL S.S.Vessel FOKAIADirect

    MITILINI (LESBOS)AYVALIK

    from €30.00deck

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Fares by date

What the operator is charging, by departure date.

17 September 2026

€30.00

TURYOL S.S.

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 15 September 2026

Cheapest€11.88
  1. Jale Turizm JT230006:071h 10m07:17MITILINI (LESBOS)AYVALIK

Door to door 2h 40mCO2 3.3 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Fastest€11.88
  1. Jalem Tur JT212908:531h 9m10:02MITILINI (LESBOS)AYVALIK

Door to door 2h 39mCO2 3.3 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Carriers

Ferry operators

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

A hotel room

A room in Ayvalık for the night the ferry gets in

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Booking window

When to book Mytilene to Ayvalık

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. €11.883 days
  9. €11.881 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 0 percent. The dearest point is €11.88, 90 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. €11.88Thu
  6. €11.88Fri
  7. €11.88Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Mytilene

Ferry
  • MITILINI (LESBOS)
  • Mytilene

Ayvalık

Ferry
  • AYVALIK
The journey

What the journey actually looks like

How far it really runs
The route covers 29 km against 26 km in a straight line, a detour of 12 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Mytilene at 06:07 and the last at 20:10, across 24 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Mytilene to Ayvalık

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 Mytilene to Ayvalık take?

The Ferry from Mytilene to Ayvalık takes 2h 39m door to door, of which 1h 9m is spent moving. The route runs 29 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 Mytilene to Ayvalık cost?

The Ferry from Mytilene to Ayvalık 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 Mytilene to Ayvalık?

4 operators run the Ferry from Mytilene to Ayvalık: Jale Turizm, Jalem Tur, Turyol S.s., Ugur Jale Lines. Between them they file around 24 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 Mytilene to Ayvalık use?

The Ferry from Mytilene to Ayvalık leaves from MITILINI (LESBOS) and arrives at AYVALIK. 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 Mytilene to Ayvalık?

Fares for the Ferry from Mytilene to Ayvalık bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €11.88. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 0 percent, measured on 14 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

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

The Ferry from Mytilene to Ayvalık produces about 3.3 kg of CO2 per passenger over 29 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 Mytilene to Ayvalık?

Operators on the Ferry from Mytilene to Ayvalık publish Bar, Bicycles, Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Toilets. That is what 4 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 2h 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 Mytilene to Ayvalık on 14 September 2026: 29 km of route against 26 km in a straight line, 24 services a day, 4 operators a cheapest fare of €11.88, and 2h 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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