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Groningen to Heraklion

Compare trains, coaches, flights and ferries from Groningen to Heraklion. From €191.89, fastest 6h 46m, with the total price and every fee shown up front.

Groningen to Heraklion runs about 2 times a day, with the first departure around 06:07 and the last around 14:49. One passenger pays between €191.89 and €282.75, every fee included, depending on the operator and the way you travel. The fastest door to door is 6h 46m over 2,537 km, on services run by 1 operator across 1 mode.

Checked 14 September 2026Priced for 5 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

What one seat costs

The spread between the cheapest and dearest typical fare on this corridor, across 1 operator and 1 way of making the journey. The operator sets the price on the day.

Typical fares

€191.89 to €282.75

  • 162%Moves across the booking window

When it runs, leaving Groningen

No operator has filed a timetable for this direction yet, so the first and last departure below follow the pattern of the corridor. Read them as the shape of the service day rather than as times to turn up for.

  • 06:07First departure
  • 14:49Last departure
  • 2Services per day
  • 100%Run direct

Fares by date

What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.

Typical fares

  1. about €499.87Tue15
  2. about €395.79Wed16
  3. about €503.59Thu17
  4. about €437.92Fri18
  5. about €436.74Sat19
  6. about €391.90Sun20
  7. about €335.85Mon21
  8. about €256.09Tue22
  9. about €278.09Wed23
  10. about €321.54Thu24
  11. about €329.36Fri25
  12. about €346.47Sat26
  13. about €282.75Sun27
  14. about €303.94Mon28
  15. about €235.55Tue29
  16. about €256.20Wed30
  17. about €262.69Thu1
  18. about €241.24Fri2
  19. about €265.05Sat3
  20. about €219.79Sun4
  21. about €191.89Mon5

Based on what this route has cost recently. The operator sets the price on the day, and the live fare is confirmed when you book.

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

A hotel room

A room in Heraklion for the night the flight gets in

Sort by distance from Police Department and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Groningen to Heraklion

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

  1. €248.9490 days
  2. €236.1460 days
  3. €229.0645 days
  4. €201.6430 days
  5. €191.8921 days
  6. €303.9414 days
  7. €335.857 days
  8. €503.593 days
  9. €499.871 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 21 days ahead, at €191.89.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 162 percent. The dearest point is €503.59, 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.
€503.59€191.891371421304560

Book now Fares on this route are lowest around 21 days ahead. You are inside that window.

This corridor, specifically

Facts that apply to Groningen to Heraklion and to no other route on the site.

Clocks

1 hours ahead on arrival. The clock moves even though you do not.

The shape of it

2,537 km

2,463 km as the crow flies, 3% further by the route services actually take. The bearing runs south-east.

Who lives at each end

244,807137,154

Population at the departure city and at the arrival city, which is usually what decides how often anything runs.

How we know

Observed

Every operator on this corridor is named in a carrier record.

The route

GroningenGroningenIrákleionIrákleion
The journey

What the journey actually looks like

Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.

Direct or connecting
33% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 67% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 2,537 km against 2,463 km in a straight line, a detour of 3 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Eindhoven, Maastricht. The gap between arriving and leaving is 51 minutes, of which about 14 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 18 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.

The fare from HER into Heraklion is the one price on this journey we cannot show you, because it is not ours.

A taxi rank outside an airport terminal

A car waiting when you land in Heraklion

Settled in advance, so the ride into Heraklion costs what it said it would rather than what the rank says.

Partner links. We do not operate transfers. We earn a commission on a booking, and the fare is the same as going direct.

Who runs this route

The flight gets in hours before any room is ready. Holding a bag is not what we sell.

Left luggage lockers

Left luggage near Police Department

Most of the points near Police Department open before the first train and shut after the last one.

Partner links. We do not run these networks. We earn a commission on a booking, and the price is the same as going direct.

Questions about Groningen 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 it take to get from Groningen to Heraklion?

The fastest journey from Groningen to Heraklion takes 6h 46m door to door, of which 3h 39m is spent moving, on the flight. Most services take around 7h 1m, because that average includes slower stopping services and journeys with a connection. Times include reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end.

How much does it cost to travel from Groningen to Heraklion?

The cheapest fare from Groningen to Heraklion is €191.89, as of 14 September 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €336.15. Both figures are the total for one passenger, including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so nothing is added at checkout.

What is the cheapest way to get from Groningen to Heraklion?

The cheapest way from Groningen to Heraklion is by flight, at €282.75 for one passenger on 5 October 2026. That journey takes 6h 49m door to door. Cheaper is rarely faster on this corridor, and the comparison table on this page shows what each mode costs against what it saves.

When should I book Groningen to Heraklion?

Fares from Groningen to Heraklion bottom out around 21 days before departure, at €191.89. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the dearest lead time is 162 percent, measured on 14 September 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.

Which day of the week is cheapest for Groningen to Heraklion?

Tuesday is the cheapest day to depart from Groningen to Heraklion, at €256.09. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, as of 14 September 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.

Which month is cheapest for Groningen to Heraklion?

February is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from Groningen to Heraklion, at €169.47 for one passenger. Each month is priced on its fifteenth, so the comparison is like for like rather than a mix of weekends and midweek departures.

Who runs services from Groningen to Heraklion?

1 operators sell services from Groningen to Heraklion across 1 mode: Corendon Airlines Europe. Journey times, fares and fare conditions differ between them, and the operator table on this page compares all of them on speed, flexibility and what is provided on board.

Is there a direct service from Groningen to Heraklion?

33 percent of the services we sell from Groningen to Heraklion are direct. The rest connect at Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Eindhoven, Maastricht, with about 51 minutes between the two services. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is rebooked at no charge.

Which station or terminal do services from Groningen to Heraklion use?

Services from Groningen to Heraklion by flight leave from Groningen GRQ and arrive at Irákleion HER. Allow about 3h 10m in total for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one, which is already included in every door to door time on this page.

Can I change or refund a ticket from Groningen to Heraklion?

0 of the 1 operators we sell from Groningen to Heraklion allow a change or a refund. A change on a changeable fare costs €5.00. The operator table on this page names which is which, and the condition is shown again before you pay.

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, Distances

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Groningen to Heraklion on 14 September 2026: 2537 km of route against 2463 km in a straight line, 6 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €191.89, and 6h 46m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

Being on the water gives Heraklion a set of days out that do not start at a station. We do not sell those either.

A guided tour group

Day trips out of Heraklion and across Greece

Day trips that leave Heraklion in the morning and cover a good part of Greece by evening.

Partner links. We do not sell tours or tickets. We earn a commission on a booking, and it never changes the price.

The two ends, compared

Groningen reaches 48 places in 8 countries on services we hold, over distances from 46 to 3,323 km. Heraklion reaches 134 places in 32 countries, from 88 to 3,566 km.

Other ways to make this journey

Leaving Groningen

  • 48Places you can leave for
  • 8Countries
  • 14Operators

Arriving in Heraklion

Leaving Heraklion

  • 134Places you can leave for
  • 32Countries
  • 82Operators

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