Sitia to Athens ferry

Ferries from Sitia to Athens start at €30.04 and take 15h 7m at their fastest.

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The Ferries from Sitia to Athens starts at €30.04 and takes 15h 7m door to door, run by 1 operator over 412 km, with around 4 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 21 days before departure.

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

  • 15h 7mDoor to door
  • 13h 37mMoving
  • €30.04 to €62.49From
  • 23:50 to 23:50First and last departure
  • 1Per day
  • 47.4 kgCO2

First and last are the departures the operators themselves filed for 17 September 2026, across 1 services on the day.

€30.04 to €62.49 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.

  1. 23:5013:3013h 40m

    BLUE STAR FERRIESVessel BLUE STAR CHIOSDirect

    SITIAPIRAEUS

    from €59.00deckseat €64.00 €97.00

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Fares by date

What the operator is charging, by departure date.

17 September 2026

€59.00

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€25.09
  1. Blue Star BS187306:1013h 37m19:47SITIAATHENS (ALL PORTS)

Door to door 15h 7mCO2 47.4 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Fastest€61.94
  1. Blue Star BS745907:308h 24m15:54SITIAEsperides
  2. Aegean Airlines AA944416:501h17:50Rhodes RHOAthens ATH

Changes at Rhodes, with 56 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.

Door to door 12h 40mCO2 139.6 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes

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€25.0913h 27m33 km/hChangeableBar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Toilets
  • Blue Star

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A hotel room

A room in Athens for the night the ferry gets in

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Booking window

When to book Sitia to Athens

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

  1. €34.4390 days
  2. €27.8460 days
  3. €31.6845 days
  4. €26.7330 days
  5. €26.1921 days
  6. €34.9814 days
  7. €36.087 days
  8. €62.493 days
  9. €56.441 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 21 days ahead, at €26.19.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 139 percent. The dearest point is €62.49, 3 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 21 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. €39.94Sun
  2. €34.98Mon
  3. €30.04Tue
  4. €37.18Wed
  5. €47.09Thu
  6. €39.39Fri
  7. €43.23Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Sitia

Ferry
  • SITIA

Athens

Ferry
  • ATHENS (ALL PORTS)
The journey

What the journey actually looks like

Direct or connecting
25% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 75% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 412 km against 375 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 Irákleion, Rhodes, Karpathos. The gap between arriving and leaving is 49 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 19 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 Sitia at 06:10 and the last at 07:30, across 4 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Sitia 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 Sitia to Athens take?

The Ferry from Sitia to Athens takes 15h 7m door to door, of which 13h 37m is spent moving. The route runs 412 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 Sitia to Athens cost?

The Ferry from Sitia to Athens starts at €30.04 for one passenger, as of 14 September 2026. A typical fare is €36.63. 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 Sitia to Athens?

1 operators run the Ferry from Sitia to Athens: Blue Star. Between them they file around 4 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 Sitia to Athens use?

The Ferry from Sitia to Athens leaves from SITIA 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 Sitia to Athens?

Fares for the Ferry from Sitia to Athens bottom out around 21 days ahead, at €26.19. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 139 percent, measured on 14 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Ferry from Sitia to Athens produce?

The Ferry from Sitia to Athens produces about 47.4 kg of CO2 per passenger over 412 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 Sitia to Athens?

Operators on the Ferry from Sitia to Athens publish Bar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Toilets. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 15h 7m 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 Sitia to Athens on 14 September 2026: 412 km of route against 375 km in a straight line, 4 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €30.04, and 15h 7m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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