Cheapest€21.24
- Blue Star BS336206:109h 58m16:08KALYMNOSATHENS (ALL PORTS)
Door to door 11h 28mCO2 39.1 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee
Kálymnos to Athens ferry
Ferries from Kálymnos to Athens start at €25.09 and take 11h 28m at their fastest.
Check dates and fares
Fares and seats move by the day. Price Kálymnos to Athens on the date you actually want, rather than on the date this page was built.
The Ferries from Kálymnos to Athens starts at €25.09 and takes 11h 28m door to door, run by 1 operator over 340 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 21 days before departure.
- 11h 28mDoor to door
- 9h 58mMoving
- €25.09 to €51.49From
- 21:35 to 21:35First and last departure
- 1Per day
- 39.1 kgCO2
First and last are the departures the operators themselves filed for September 17, 2026, across 1 services on the day.
€25.09 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 17, 2026
Real sailings, with the fares the operator is charging. Check the season before you count on one.
21:3508:2510h 50m
BLUE STAR FERRIESVessel BLUE STAR 1Direct
KALYMNOS → PIRAEUS
from €76.50deckseat €81.50 €133.00
Fares by date
What the operator is charging, by departure date.
September 17, 2026
€76.50
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 September 29, 2026
Fastest€52.59
- Blue Star BS316007:304h 25m11:55KALYMNOSEsperides
- Aegean Airlines AA944413:051h14:05Rhodes RHOAthens ATH
Changes at Rhodes, with 70 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.
Door to door 8h 55mCO2 125.7 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes
Ferry operators
| Operator | From | Fastest | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Blue Star | €21.24 | 11h 28m | 33 km/h | Changeable | Bar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms |
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When to book Kálymnos to Athens
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €30.5990 days
- €23.4460 days
- €27.2945 days
- €25.0930 days
- €22.3421 days
- €30.0414 days
- €34.997 days
- €51.493 days
- €44.881 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 21 days ahead, at €22.34.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 130 percent. The most expensive point is €51.49, 3 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.
- €33.34Sun
- €30.04Mon
- €25.09Tue
- €31.69Wed
- €38.28Thu
- €32.79Fri
- €36.64Sat
Where you leave from and where you arrive
Kálymnos
Ferry
- KALYMNOS
- KALYMNOS (ALL PORTS)
Athens
Ferry
- ATHENS (ALL PORTS)
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 340 km against 309 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 Sými, Pátmos, Kos, 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.
- First and last departure
- The first service of the day leaves Kálymnos at 06:10 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 Kálymnos to Athens
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 Kálymnos to Athens take?
The Ferry from Kálymnos to Athens takes 11h 28m door to door, of which 9h 58m is spent moving. The route runs 340 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 Kálymnos to Athens cost?
The Ferry from Kálymnos to Athens starts at €25.09 for one passenger, as of September 14, 2026. A typical fare is €34.98. 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 Kálymnos to Athens?
1 operators run the Ferry from Kálymnos to Athens: 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 Kálymnos to Athens use?
The Ferry from Kálymnos to Athens leaves from KALYMNOS and arrives at ATHENS (ALL PORTS). 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 Kálymnos to Athens?
Fares for the Ferry from Kálymnos to Athens bottom out around 21 days ahead, at €22.34. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 130 percent, measured on September 14, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
How much CO2 does the Ferry from Kálymnos to Athens produce?
The Ferry from Kálymnos to Athens produces about 39.1 kg of CO2 per passenger over 340 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 Kálymnos to Athens?
Operators on the Ferry from Kálymnos to Athens publish Bar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 11h 28m 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 Kálymnos to Athens on September 14, 2026: 340 km of route against 309 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €25.09, and 11h 28m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
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