Cheapest€23.99
- Blue Star BS222406:1011h 31m17:41SoudaRhodes Town (Mandraki)
Door to door 13h 1mCO2 45.0 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee
Chania to Rhodes ferry
Ferries from Chania to Rhodes start at €31.14 and take 13h 1m at their fastest.
The Ferries from Chania to Rhodes starts at €31.14 and takes 13h 1m door to door, run by 1 operator over 391 km, with around 4 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.
- 13h 1mDoor to door
- 11h 31mMoving
- €31.14From
- 45.0 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 | €23.99 | 12h 52m | 33 km/h | Changeable | Bar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms |
Rhodes is small enough to walk across, so almost anywhere downtown works. We still do not sell the room.
Where to stay in Rhodes
Hotels and apartments near downtown, most of them with free cancellation, on a map that shows what is walkable.
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When to book Chania to Rhodes
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €37.1990 days
- €21.7960 days
- €22.3445 days
- €23.4430 days
- €31.6921 days
- €33.3414 days
- €47.647 days
- €35.543 days
- €66.341 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €21.79.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 204 percent. The most expensive point is €66.34, 1 days out.
- What that means
- Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 60 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.
- €37.19Sun
- €39.94Mon
- €31.14Tue
- €36.09Wed
- €44.34Thu
- €33.89Fri
- €33.34Sat
Where you leave from and where you arrive
The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.
Chaniá
Ferry
- Souda
Rhodes
Ferry
- Rhodes Town (Mandraki)
- Esperides
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
- 43% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 57% involve one connection.
- How far it really runs
- The route covers 391 km against 391 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 Piraeus, Voúla, Artémida, Athens. The gap between arriving and leaving is 84 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 12 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 7m | 57m | 3h 10m | €47.34 | 99.1 kg | 3 |
| Ferry | 13h 1m | 11h 31m | 1h 30m | €31.14 | 45.0 kg | 4 |
Questions about Chania 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 Chania to Rhodes take?
The Ferry from Chania to Rhodes takes 13h 1m door to door, of which 11h 31m is spent moving. The route runs 391 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 Rhodes cost?
The Ferry from Chania to Rhodes starts at €31.14 for one passenger, checked on September 29, 2026. A typical fare is €52.32. 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 Rhodes?
1 operators run the Ferry from Chania to Rhodes: 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 Rhodes use?
The Ferry from Chania to Rhodes leaves from Souda and arrives at Rhodes Town (Mandraki). 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 Rhodes?
Traveling from Chania to Rhodes by Flight costs €47.34 and takes 4h 7m door to door, against 13h 1m 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 Rhodes?
Fares for the Ferry from Chania to Rhodes bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €21.79. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 204 percent, measured on September 29, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
How much CO2 does the Ferry from Chania to Rhodes produce?
The Ferry from Chania to Rhodes produces about 45.0 kg of CO2 per passenger over 391 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 Rhodes?
Operators on the Ferry from Chania to Rhodes publish Bar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 13h 1m 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 Rhodes on September 12, 2026: 391 km of route against 391 km in a straight line, 4 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €31.14, and 13h 1m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
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Our job ends at the platform. What fills the days in Rhodes afterward does not belong to us.
Things to do in Rhodes
Timed entry, guided walks and half-day trips out of Rhodes, with free cancellation on most of it.
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