Cheapest€20.69
- Blue Star BS956006:109h 37m15:47SoudaKos
Door to door 11h 7mCO2 38.0 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee
Chania to Kos ferry
Ferries from Chania to Kos start at €24.54 and take 11h 7m at their fastest.
The Ferries from Chania to Kos starts at €24.54 and takes 11h 7m door to door, run by 1 operator over 330 km, with around 4 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 90 days before departure.
- 11h 7mDoor to door
- 9h 37mMoving
- €24.54From
- 38.0 kgCO2
The cheapest and the fastest on September 29, 2026
Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.
Ferry operators
Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.
| Operator | From | Fastest | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Blue Star | €20.69 | 11h 7m | 33 km/h | Changeable | Bar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms |
Kos is small enough to walk across, so almost anywhere downtown works. We still do not sell the room.
A room in Kos for the night the ferry gets in
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When to book Chania to Kos
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €21.2490 days
- €25.0960 days
- €22.8945 days
- €26.7430 days
- €26.1921 days
- €26.1914 days
- €31.697 days
- €50.393 days
- €56.441 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €21.24.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 166 percent. The most expensive point is €56.44, 1 days out.
- What that means
- Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 90 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.
- €33.34Sun
- €33.89Mon
- €24.54Tue
- €26.19Wed
- €40.49Thu
- €36.64Fri
- €41.04Sat
Where you leave from and where you arrive
The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.
Chaniá
Ferry
- Souda
Kos
Ferry
- Kos
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 330 km against 330 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 Athens, Voúla, Bodrum, Artémida. The gap between arriving and leaving is 52 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 Chania 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.
Ferries against the other ways to make this journey
The same corridor, door to door, with every mode that runs it.
| Mode | Door to door | Moving | At the ends | From | CO2 | Per day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flight | 4h 5m | 55m | 3h 10m | €40.85 | 83.6 kg | 2 |
| Ferry | 11h 7m | 9h 37m | 1h 30m | €24.54 | 38.0 kg | 4 |
Questions about Chania to Kos
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 Chania to Kos take?
The Ferry from Chania to Kos takes 11h 7m door to door, of which 9h 37m is spent moving. The route runs 330 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 Chania to Kos cost?
The Ferry from Chania to Kos starts at €24.54 for one passenger, checked on September 29, 2026. A typical fare is €42.14. 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 Chania to Kos?
1 operators run the Ferry from Chania to Kos: 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 Chania to Kos use?
The Ferry from Chania to Kos leaves from Souda and arrives at Kos. 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 Chania to Kos?
Traveling from Chania to Kos by Flight costs €40.85 and takes 4h 5m door to door, against 11h 7m 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 Chania to Kos?
Fares for the Ferry from Chania to Kos bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €21.24. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 166 percent, measured on September 29, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
How much CO2 does the Ferry from Chania to Kos produce?
The Ferry from Chania to Kos produces about 38.0 kg of CO2 per passenger over 330 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 Chania to Kos?
Operators on the Ferry from Chania to Kos publish Bar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 11h 7m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.
Where these numbers come from
Observed service A carrier record shows this named operator serving this named pair, and we carry that through unchanged.
Schedules, seat counts and fares are generated by our own model until the supplier contracts are signed. Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance are real. We would rather say that on every page than let a modeled number pass for a filed one.
Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon
- On this page
- Every figure above was computed for Chania to Kos on September 9, 2026: 330 km of route against 330 km in a straight line, 4 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €24.54, and 11h 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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Being on the water gives Kos a set of days out that do not start at a station. We do not sell those either.
Day trips out of Kos and across Greece
Timed entry, guided walks and half-day trips out of Kos, with free cancellation on most of it.
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