Cheapest€19.04
- Blue Star BS741310:479h 44m20:31ATHENS (ALL PORTS)KAVALA
Door to door 11h 14mCO2 38.4 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee
Athens to Kavala ferry
Ferries from Athens to Kavala start at €22.34 and take 11h 14m at their fastest.
Check dates and fares
Fares and seats move by the day. Price Athens to Kavala on the date you actually want, rather than on the date this page was built.
The Ferries from Athens to Kavala starts at €22.34 and takes 11h 14m door to door, run by 1 operator over 334 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 21 days before departure.
- 11h 14mDoor to door
- 9h 44mMoving
- €22.34 to €51.49From
- 16:00 to 16:00First and last departure
- 1Per day
- 38.4 kgCO2
First and last are the departures the operators themselves filed for September 29, 2026, across 1 services on the day.
€22.34 to €51.49 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 September 29, 2026
Real sailings, with the fares the operator is charging. Check the season before you count on one.
16:0018:0026h
BLUE STAR FERRIESVessel BLUE STAR MYCONOSDirect
PIRAEUS → KAVALA
from €72.00deckseat €94.00
Fares by date
What the operator is charging, by departure date.
September 29, 2026
€72.00
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 cheapest and the fastest on October 6, 2026
Ferry operators
| Operator | From | Fastest | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Blue Star | €19.04 | 11h 14m | 33 km/h | Changeable | Bar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms |
The ferry gets you into Kavala. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.
A room in Kavala for the night the ferry gets in
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When to book Athens to Kavala
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €21.2490 days
- €19.5960 days
- €21.2445 days
- €21.7930 days
- €19.0421 days
- €22.3414 days
- €26.747 days
- €37.193 days
- €43.241 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 21 days ahead, at €19.04.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 127 percent. The most expensive point is €43.24, 1 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.
Which departure day costs least
Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
- €29.49Sun
- €24.54Mon
- €22.34Tue
- €26.74Wed
- €33.34Thu
- €30.04Fri
- €35.54Sat
Where you leave from and where you arrive
Athens
Ferry
- ATHENS (ALL PORTS)
Kavála
Ferry
- KAVALA
- NEAPOLIS
What the journey actually looks like
- Direct or connecting
- 71% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 29% involve one connection.
- How far it really runs
- The route covers 334 km against 334 km in a straight line, a detour of 2 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
- Where the change is
- Connections are made at Alexandroupoli, Thessaloníki, Mykonos, Évosmos. The gap between arriving and leaving is 52 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.
- First and last departure
- The first service of the day leaves Athens at 06:33 and the last at 18:18, across 5 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 | 4h 1m | 51m | 3h 10m | €34.95 | 84.6 kg | 7 |
| Ferry | 11h 14m | 9h 44m | 1h 30m | €22.34 | 38.4 kg | 5 |
Questions about Athens to Kavala
The questions people actually ask about this trip, 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 Athens to Kavala take?
The Ferry from Athens to Kavala takes 11h 14m door to door, of which 9h 44m is spent moving. The route runs 334 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 Athens to Kavala cost?
The Ferry from Athens to Kavala starts at €22.34 for one passenger, as of September 15, 2026. A typical fare is €21.79. 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 Athens to Kavala?
1 operators run the Ferry from Athens to Kavala: Blue Star. Between them they file around 5 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 Athens to Kavala use?
The Ferry from Athens to Kavala leaves from ATHENS (ALL PORTS) and arrives at KAVALA. 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 Athens to Kavala?
Traveling from Athens to Kavala by Flight costs €34.95 and takes 4h 1m door to door, against 11h 14m 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 Athens to Kavala?
Fares for the Ferry from Athens to Kavala bottom out around 21 days ahead, at €19.04. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 127 percent, measured on September 15, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
How much CO2 does the Ferry from Athens to Kavala produce?
The Ferry from Athens to Kavala produces about 38.4 kg of CO2 per passenger over 334 km, which works out at roughly 115 grams per passenger kilometer. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveler, not for the vehicle.
What is provided on board the Ferry from Athens to Kavala?
Operators on the Ferry from Athens to Kavala publish Bar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 11h 14m 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 Athens to Kavala on September 15, 2026: 334 km of route against 334 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €22.34, and 11h 14m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
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