Cheapest€37.19
- Dodekanisos Seaways DS655506:0920h 33m02:42CHALKIEsperides
Door to door 22h 3mCO2 76.8 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee
Chálki to Rhodes ferry
Ferries from Chálki to Rhodes start at €45.44 and take 22h 3m at their fastest.
Check dates and fares
Fares and seats move by the day. Price Chálki to Rhodes on the date you actually want, rather than on the date this page was built.
The Ferries from Chálki to Rhodes starts at €45.44 and takes 22h 3m door to door, run by 1 operator over 668 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 30 days before departure.
- 22h 3mDoor to door
- 20h 33mMoving
- €45.44 to €119.14From
- 17:05 to 17:05First and last departure
- 1Per day
- 76.8 kgCO2
First and last are the departures the operators themselves filed for September 17, 2026, across 1 services on the day.
€45.44 to €119.14 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 17, 2026
Real sailings, with the fares the operator is charging. Check the season before you count on one.
17:0518:151h 10m
DODEKANISOS SEAWAYSVessel DODEKANISOS EXPRESSDirect
CHALKI → RODOS
from €24.00
Fares by date
What the operator is charging, by departure date.
September 17, 2026
€24.00
DODEKANISOS SEAWAYS
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 5, 2026
Fastest€53.14
- Blue Star BS857207:306h 39m14:09CHALKIATHENS (ALL PORTS)
- Aegean Airlines AA201715:511h 4m16:55Athens ATHRhodes RHO
Changes at Athens, with 102 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.
Door to door 11h 45mCO2 135.7 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes
Ferry operators
| Operator | From | Fastest | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dodekanisos Seaways | €37.19 | 20h 44m | 33 km/h | Changeable | Bar, Bicycles, Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms |
The ferry gets you into Rhodes. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.
A room in Rhodes for the night the ferry gets in
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When to book Chálki to Rhodes
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €52.5990 days
- €43.2460 days
- €47.6445 days
- €34.9930 days
- €37.1921 days
- €50.3914 days
- €66.347 days
- €119.143 days
- €83.941 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €34.99.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 240 percent. The most expensive point is €119.14, 3 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.
Which departure day costs least
Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
- €65.79Sun
- €50.39Mon
- €45.44Tue
- €55.34Wed
- €62.49Thu
- €59.19Fri
- €66.34Sat
Where you leave from and where you arrive
Chálki
Ferry
- CHALKI
Rhodes
Ferry
- Esperides
- RODOS
- RODOS (ALL PORTS)
- Rhodes Town (Mandraki)
- SKALA KAMIROU(RHO)
What the journey actually looks like
- Direct or connecting
- 20% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 80% involve one connection.
- How far it really runs
- The route covers 668 km against 607 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 Pátmos, Kos, Piraeus, Athens. The gap between arriving and leaving is 53 minutes, of which about 5 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 Chálki at 06:09 and the last at 07:30, across 5 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
Questions about Chálki to Rhodes
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 Chálki to Rhodes take?
The Ferry from Chálki to Rhodes takes 22h 3m door to door, of which 20h 33m is spent moving. The route runs 668 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 Chálki to Rhodes cost?
The Ferry from Chálki to Rhodes starts at €45.44 for one passenger, as of September 14, 2026. A typical fare is €49.28. 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 Chálki to Rhodes?
1 operators run the Ferry from Chálki to Rhodes: Dodekanisos Seaways. 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 Chálki to Rhodes use?
The Ferry from Chálki to Rhodes leaves from CHALKI and arrives at Esperides. 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 Chálki to Rhodes?
Fares for the Ferry from Chálki to Rhodes bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €34.99. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 240 percent, measured on September 14, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
How much CO2 does the Ferry from Chálki to Rhodes produce?
The Ferry from Chálki to Rhodes produces about 76.8 kg of CO2 per passenger over 668 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 Chálki to Rhodes?
Operators on the Ferry from Chálki to Rhodes publish Bar, Bicycles, Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 22h 3m 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 Chálki to Rhodes on September 14, 2026: 668 km of route against 607 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €45.44, and 22h 3m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
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