Heraklion to Karpathos runs about 1 times a day, with the first departure around 02:30 and the last around 02:30. One passenger pays between €13.54 and €16.29, every fee included, depending on the operator and the way you travel. The fastest door to door is 7h 40m over 207 km, on services run by 1 operator across 1 mode.
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
€13.54 to €16.29
- 190%Moves across the booking window
When it runs, leaving Heraklion
First and last sailing as the operators themselves filed them for 17 September 2026, counted in this direction only. The return crossing runs on its own timetable and this page does not speak for it.
- 02:30First departure
- 02:30Last departure
- 1Services per day
- 100%Run direct
Sailings on 17 September 2026
Real sailings, with the fares the operator is charging. Check the season before you count on one.
02:3009:156h 45m
BLUE STAR FERRIESVessel BLUE STAR CHIOSDirect
HERAKLIO → KARPATHOS
from €17.00deckseat €19.00 €52.50 €52.50
E ticketVehicles carriedPets carried
Fares on the crossing run from €17.00 to €52.50 on 17 September 2026, depending on the sailing and on whether you take a deck space, a seat or a cabin.
Blue Star runs this service and does not sell it here. AFerry takes the payment.
Buying this journey
AFerry holds the sailings between these two ports, with the crossing times and the fares.
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Fares by date
What the operator is charging, by departure date.
17 September 2026
€17.00
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.
The ferry gets you into Karpathos. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.
A room in Karpathos for the night the ferry gets in
Sort by distance from KARPATHOS and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.
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When to book Heraklion to Karpathos
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €20.1490 days
- €15.1960 days
- €14.6445 days
- €12.4430 days
- €17.9421 days
- €21.2414 days
- €26.747 days
- €28.943 days
- €36.091 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €12.44.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 190 percent. The dearest point is €36.09, 1 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.
Book now Fares on this route are lowest around 30 days ahead. You are inside that window.
This corridor, specifically
Facts that apply to Heraklion to Karpathos and to no other route on the site.
Clocks
Both ends keep the same time, so the arrival is the departure plus the journey.
The shape of it
207 km
189 km as the crow flies, 10% further by the route services actually take. The bearing runs east.
Who lives at each end
137,154 → 7,790
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
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
- 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 207 km against 189 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 Sitia, Firá, Rhodes. The gap between arriving and leaving is 45 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 20 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.
Who runs this route
Karpathos is small enough to see in an afternoon, which is easier without the luggage. Storing it is not our business.
Left luggage near KARPATHOS
Most of the points near KARPATHOS open before the first train and shut after the last one.
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Questions about Heraklion to Karpathos
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 Heraklion to Karpathos?
The fastest journey from Heraklion to Karpathos takes 7h 40m door to door, of which 6h 57m is spent moving, on the ferry. Most services take around 8h 10m, 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 Heraklion to Karpathos?
The cheapest fare from Heraklion to Karpathos is €13.54, as of 13 September 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €21.24. 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 Heraklion to Karpathos?
The cheapest way from Heraklion to Karpathos is by ferry, at €16.29 for one passenger on 29 September 2026. That journey takes 8h 27m 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 Heraklion to Karpathos?
Fares from Heraklion to Karpathos bottom out around 30 days before departure, at €12.44. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the dearest lead time is 190 percent, measured on 13 September 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.
Which day of the week is cheapest for Heraklion to Karpathos?
Tuesday is the cheapest day to depart from Heraklion to Karpathos, at €16.29. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, as of 13 September 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.
Which month is cheapest for Heraklion to Karpathos?
January is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from Heraklion to Karpathos, at €12.99 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 Heraklion to Karpathos?
1 operators sell services from Heraklion to Karpathos across 1 mode: Blue Star. 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 Heraklion to Karpathos?
25 percent of the services we sell from Heraklion to Karpathos are direct. The rest connect at Sitia, Firá, Rhodes, with about 45 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 Heraklion to Karpathos use?
Services from Heraklion to Karpathos by ferry leave from HERAKLIO and arrive at KARPATHOS. Allow about 1h 30m 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 Heraklion to Karpathos?
1 of the 1 operators we sell from Heraklion to Karpathos 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 Heraklion to Karpathos on 13 September 2026: 207 km of route against 189 km in a straight line, 4 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €13.54, and 7h 40m 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 Karpathos a set of days out that do not start at a station. We do not sell those either.
Day trips out of Karpathos and across Greece
Day trips that leave Karpathos in the morning and cover a good part of Greece by evening.
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The two ends, compared
Heraklion reaches 134 places in 32 countries on services we hold, over distances from 88 to 3,566 km. Karpathos reaches 8 places in 1 countries, from 106 to 611 km.
Other ways to make this journey
Leaving Heraklion
- 134Places you can leave for
- 32Countries
- 82Operators
Arriving in Karpathos
Leaving Karpathos
- 8Places you can leave for
- 1Countries
- 1Operators