Cheapest€17.39
- Blue Star BS907908:519h 36m18:27EsperidesHERAKLIO
Door to door 11h 6mCO2 34.8 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee
Rhodes to Heraklion ferry
Ferries from Rhodes to Heraklion start at €17.39 and take 10h 24m at their fastest.
Check dates and fares
Fares and seats move by the day. Price Rhodes to Heraklion on the date you actually want, rather than on the date this page was built.
The Ferries from Rhodes to Heraklion starts at €17.39 and takes 10h 24m door to door, run by 1 operator over 303 km, with around 8 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.
- 10h 24mDoor to door
- 8h 54mMoving
- €22.34 to €47.64From
- 15:00 to 15:00First and last departure
- 1Per day
- 34.8 kgCO2
First and last are the departures the operators themselves filed for 17 September 2026, across 1 services on the day.
€22.34 to €47.64 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.
15:0002:1511h 15m
BLUE STAR FERRIESVessel BLUE STAR CHIOSDirect
RODOS → HERAKLIO
from €26.50deckseat €28.50 €82.50
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Buying this journey
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Fares by date
What the operator is charging, by departure date.
17 September 2026
€26.50
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.
The cheapest and the fastest on 5 October 2026
Ferry operators
| Operator | From | Fastest | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Blue Star | €17.39 | 10h 20m | 33 km/h | Changeable | Bar, Bicycles, Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Toilets |
The ferry gets you into Heraklion. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.
A room in Heraklion for the night the ferry gets in
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When to book Rhodes to Heraklion
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €19.0490 days
- €14.6460 days
- €16.8445 days
- €19.5930 days
- €22.8921 days
- €26.7414 days
- €36.097 days
- €39.393 days
- €47.641 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €14.64.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 225 percent. The dearest point is €47.64, 1 days out.
- What that means
- Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 60 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.
- €25.64Sun
- €22.34Mon
- €22.89Tue
- €25.09Wed
- €26.74Thu
- €27.84Fri
- €29.49Sat
Where you leave from and where you arrive
Rhodes
Ferry
- Esperides
- RODOS
- RODOS (ALL PORTS)
- Rhodes Town (Mandraki)
- SKALA KAMIROU(RHO)
Irákleion
Ferry
- HERAKLIO
- Worldchampion Jet & Champions League Jet 1
- Ηράκλειο
What the journey looks like
- How far it really runs
- The route covers 303 km against 303 km in a straight line, a detour of 3 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
- First and last departure
- The first service of the day leaves Rhodes at 06:09 and the last at 20:22, across 8 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
Ferries against the other ways to make this journey
| Mode | Door to door | Moving | At the ends | From | CO2 | Per day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flight | 3h 59m | 49m | 3h 10m | €31.41 | 77.0 kg | 42 |
| Ferry | 10h 24m | 8h 54m | 1h 30m | €17.39 | 34.8 kg | 8 |
Questions about Rhodes to Heraklion
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 Rhodes to Heraklion take?
The Ferry from Rhodes to Heraklion takes 10h 24m door to door, of which 8h 54m is spent moving. The route runs 303 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 Rhodes to Heraklion cost?
The Ferry from Rhodes to Heraklion starts at €17.39 for one passenger, as of 17 September 2026. A typical fare is €21.24. 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 Rhodes to Heraklion?
1 operators run the Ferry from Rhodes to Heraklion: Blue Star. Between them they file around 8 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 Rhodes to Heraklion use?
The Ferry from Rhodes to Heraklion leaves from Esperides and arrives at HERAKLIO. 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.
Is the Ferry the best way from Rhodes to Heraklion?
Travelling from Rhodes to Heraklion by Flight costs €31.41 and takes 3h 59m door to door, against 10h 24m by Ferry. Which is better depends on whether the money or the hours matter more on this trip. The comparison table on this page shows every mode side by side.
When should I book the Ferry from Rhodes to Heraklion?
Fares for the Ferry from Rhodes to Heraklion bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €14.64. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 225 percent, measured on 17 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
How much CO2 does the Ferry from Rhodes to Heraklion produce?
The Ferry from Rhodes to Heraklion produces about 34.8 kg of CO2 per passenger over 303 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 Rhodes to Heraklion?
Operators on the Ferry from Rhodes to Heraklion publish Bar, Bicycles, Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Toilets. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 10h 24m 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 Rhodes to Heraklion on 17 September 2026: 303 km of route against 303 km in a straight line, 8 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €17.39, and 10h 24m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
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