Náxos to Heraklion ferry

Ferries from Náxos to Heraklion start at €19.04 and take 8h 15m at their fastest.

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The Ferries from Náxos to Heraklion starts at €19.04 and takes 8h 15m door to door, run by 1 operator over 219 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 30 days before departure.

Checked September 14, 2026Priced for October 5, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 8h 15mDoor to door
  • 6h 45mMoving
  • €19.04 to €32.79From
  • 14:00 to 14:00First and last departure
  • 1Per day
  • 25.2 kgCO2

First and last are the departures the operators themselves filed for September 17, 2026, across 1 services on the day.

€19.04 to €32.79 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.

  1. 14:0017:253h 25m

    SEAJETSVessel CHAMPIONS LEAGUE JET 1Direct

    NAXOSHERAKLIO

    from €107.70seat €107.70business seat €119.70VIP seat €139.70

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Fares by date

What the operator is charging, by departure date.

September 17, 2026

€107.70

SEAJETS

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.

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on October 5, 2026

Cheapest€16.84
  1. Seajets S638206:456h 45m13:30NAXOSHERAKLIO

Door to door 8h 15mCO2 25.2 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Carriers

Ferry operators

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorFromFastestTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
Seajets€16.848h33 km/hChangeableBar, Bicycles, Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms

The ferry gets you into Heraklion. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.

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Booking window

When to book Náxos to Heraklion

The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.

  1. €19.5990 days
  2. €13.5460 days
  3. €20.6945 days
  4. €12.4430 days
  5. €16.8421 days
  6. €19.0414 days
  7. €22.347 days
  8. €32.243 days
  9. €23.991 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €12.44.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 159 percent. The most expensive point is €32.24, 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.
Day of the week

Which departure day costs least

Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.

  1. €20.69Sun
  2. €19.04Mon
  3. €23.44Tue
  4. €24.54Wed
  5. €24.54Thu
  6. €27.84Fri
  7. €23.44Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Náxos

Ferry
  • NAXOS

Irákleion

Ferry
  • HERAKLIO
  • Worldchampion Jet & Champions League Jet 1
  • Ηράκλειο
The journey

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 219 km against 199 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 Kos, Páros, Mílos, Mykonos. The gap between arriving and leaving is 64 minutes, of which about 14 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 15 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 Náxos at 06:45 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 Náxos to Heraklion

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 Náxos to Heraklion take?

The Ferry from Náxos to Heraklion takes 8h 15m door to door, of which 6h 45m is spent moving. The route runs 219 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 Náxos to Heraklion cost?

The Ferry from Náxos to Heraklion starts at €19.04 for one passenger, as of September 14, 2026. A typical fare is €26.73. 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 Náxos to Heraklion?

1 operators run the Ferry from Náxos to Heraklion: Seajets. 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 Náxos to Heraklion use?

The Ferry from Náxos to Heraklion leaves from NAXOS and arrives at HERAKLIO. 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 Náxos to Heraklion?

Fares for the Ferry from Náxos to Heraklion bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €12.44. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 159 percent, measured on September 14, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Ferry from Náxos to Heraklion produce?

The Ferry from Náxos to Heraklion produces about 25.2 kg of CO2 per passenger over 219 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 Náxos to Heraklion?

Operators on the Ferry from Náxos to Heraklion publish Bar, Bicycles, Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 8h 15m 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.

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On this page
Every figure above was computed for Náxos to Heraklion on September 14, 2026: 219 km of route against 199 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €19.04, and 8h 15m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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