Cheapest€11.88
- Hellenic Seaways HS374106:414h 41m11:22KEAIOS
Door to door 6h 11mCO2 16.6 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee
Kéa to Íos ferry
Ferries from Kéa to Íos start at €11.89 and take 6h 11m at their fastest.
Check dates and fares
Fares and seats move by the day. Price Kéa to Íos on the date you actually want, rather than on the date this page was built.
The Ferries from Kéa to Íos starts at €11.89 and takes 6h 11m door to door, run by 1 operator over 144 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 90 days before departure.
- 6h 11mDoor to door
- 4h 41mMoving
- €11.89 to €23.99From
- 08:10 to 08:10First and last departure
- 1Per day
- 16.6 kgCO2
First and last are the departures the operators themselves filed for September 25, 2026, across 1 services on the day.
€11.89 to €23.99 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 25, 2026
Real sailings, with the fares the operator is charging. Check the season before you count on one.
08:1019:1011h
HELLENIC SEAWAYSVessel ARTEMISDirect
KEA → IOS
from €18.00deck
Fares by date
What the operator is charging, by departure date.
September 25, 2026
€18.00
HELLENIC 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 September 29, 2026
Ferry operators
| Operator | From | Fastest | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hellenic Seaways | €11.88 | 5h 53m | 33 km/h | Changeable | Bar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms |
The ferry gets you into Íos. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.
A room in Íos for the night the ferry gets in
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When to book Kéa to Íos
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €11.8890 days
- €11.8860 days
- €11.8845 days
- €11.8830 days
- €11.8821 days
- €12.4414 days
- €11.897 days
- €22.343 days
- €21.791 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €11.88.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 88 percent. The most expensive point is €22.34, 3 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.
- €14.64Sun
- €11.89Mon
- €11.89Tue
- €15.74Wed
- €16.29Thu
- €15.74Fri
- €16.84Sat
Where you leave from and where you arrive
Kéa
Ferry
- KEA
- KEA (ALL PORTS)
Íos
Ferry
- IOS
- IOS (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 144 km against 131 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 Síkinos, Kýthnos, Páros, Náxos. The gap between arriving and leaving is 58 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 16 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 Kéa at 06:41 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 Kéa to Íos
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 Kéa to Íos take?
The Ferry from Kéa to Íos takes 6h 11m door to door, of which 4h 41m is spent moving. The route runs 144 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 Kéa to Íos cost?
The Ferry from Kéa to Íos starts at €11.89 for one passenger, as of September 14, 2026. A typical fare is €21.77. 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 Kéa to Íos?
1 operators run the Ferry from Kéa to Íos: Hellenic 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 Kéa to Íos use?
The Ferry from Kéa to Íos leaves from KEA and arrives at IOS. 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 Kéa to Íos?
Fares for the Ferry from Kéa to Íos bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €11.88. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 88 percent, measured on September 14, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
How much CO2 does the Ferry from Kéa to Íos produce?
The Ferry from Kéa to Íos produces about 16.6 kg of CO2 per passenger over 144 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 Kéa to Íos?
Operators on the Ferry from Kéa to Íos publish Bar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 6h 11m 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 Kéa to Íos on September 14, 2026: 144 km of route against 131 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €11.89, and 6h 11m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
Related journeys
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