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Cluj-Napoca to Heraklion

Compare trains, buses, flights and ferries from Cluj-Napoca to Heraklion. From €97.53, fastest 5h 14m, with the total price and every fee shown up front.

Cluj-Napoca to Heraklion runs about 15 times a day, with the first departure around 06:29 and the last around 17:35. One passenger pays between €108.70 and €127.58, every fee included, depending on the operator and the way you travel. The fastest door to door is 5h 14m over 1,317 km, on services run by 5 operators across 1 mode.

Checked September 13, 2026Priced for September 29, 2026One passenger, all fees included

What one seat costs

The spread between the cheapest and dearest typical fare on this corridor, across 5 operators and 1 way of making the journey. The operator sets the price on the day.

Typical fares

€108.70 to €127.58

  • 201%Moves across the booking window

When it runs, leaving Cluj-Napoca

No operator has filed a timetable for this direction yet, so the first and last departure below follow the pattern of the corridor. Read them as the shape of the service day rather than as times to turn up for.

  • 06:29First departure
  • 17:35Last departure
  • 15Services per day
  • 100%Run direct

Fares by date

What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.

Typical fares

  1. about €225.52Mon14
  2. about €182.23Tue15
  3. about €193.23Wed16
  4. about €215.78Thu17
  5. about €197.20Fri18
  6. about €174.53Sat19
  7. about €147.03Sun20
  8. about €115.68Mon21
  9. about €127.58Tue22
  10. about €118.43Wed23
  11. about €166.83Thu24
  12. about €142.63Fri25
  13. about €142.08Sat26
  14. about €145.38Sun27
  15. about €114.03Mon28
  16. about €97.53Tue29
  17. about €118.14Wed30
  18. about €125.58Thu1
  19. about €117.88Fri2
  20. about €125.22Sat3
  21. about €120.50Sun4

Based on what this route has cost recently. The operator sets the price on the day, and the live fare is confirmed when you book.

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

A hotel room

A room in Heraklion for the night the flight gets in

Sort by distance from Police Department and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Cluj-Napoca to Heraklion

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

  1. €119.5390 days
  2. €109.8860 days
  3. €94.5445 days
  4. €74.9830 days
  5. €120.5021 days
  6. €145.3814 days
  7. €147.037 days
  8. €193.233 days
  9. €225.521 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €74.98.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 201 percent. The most expensive point is €225.52, 1 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.
€225.52€74.981371421304560

Book now Fares on this route are lowest around 30 days ahead. You are inside that window.

This corridor, specifically

Facts that apply to Cluj-Napoca to Heraklion and to no other route on the site.

Clocks

Both ends keep the same time, so the arrival is the departure plus the journey.

The shape of it

1,317 km

1,278 km as the crow flies, 3% further by the route services actually take. The bearing runs south.

Who lives at each end

286,598137,154

Population at the departure city and at the arrival city, which is usually what decides how often anything runs.

How we know

Observed

Every operator on this corridor is named in a carrier record.

The route

Cluj-NapocaCluj-NapocaIrákleionIrákleion
The journey

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
79% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 21% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 1,317 km against 1,278 km in a straight line, a detour of 3 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Timişoara, Craiova, Sofia, Bucharest. The gap between arriving and leaving is 78 minutes, of which about 14 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.

The fare from HER into Heraklion is the one price on this trip we cannot show you, because it is not ours.

A taxi stand outside an airport terminal

A car waiting when you land in Heraklion

Settled in advance, so the ride into Heraklion costs what it said it would rather than what the cab stand says.

Partner links. We do not operate transfers. We earn a commission on a booking, and the fare is the same as going direct.

Who runs this route

The flight gets in hours before any room is ready. Holding a bag is not what we sell.

Left luggage lockers

Baggage storage near Police Department

Most of the points near Police Department open before the first train and close after the last one.

Partner links. We do not run these networks. We earn a commission on a booking, and the price is the same as going direct.

Questions about Cluj-Napoca 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 it take to get from Cluj-Napoca to Heraklion?

The fastest journey from Cluj-Napoca to Heraklion takes 5h 14m door to door, of which 2h 5m is spent moving, on the flight. Most services take around 5h 22m, because that average includes slower stopping services and journeys with a connection. Times include reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end.

How much does it cost to travel from Cluj-Napoca to Heraklion?

The cheapest fare from Cluj-Napoca to Heraklion is €97.53, as of September 13, 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €184.81. Both figures are the total for one passenger, including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so nothing is added at checkout.

What is the cheapest way to get from Cluj-Napoca to Heraklion?

The cheapest way from Cluj-Napoca to Heraklion is by flight, at €127.58 for one passenger on September 29, 2026. That journey takes 5h 15m door to door. Cheaper is rarely faster on this corridor, and the comparison table on this page shows what each mode costs against what it saves.

When should I book Cluj-Napoca to Heraklion?

Fares from Cluj-Napoca to Heraklion bottom out around 30 days before departure, at €74.98. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the most expensive lead time is 201 percent, measured on September 13, 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.

Which day of the week is cheapest for Cluj-Napoca to Heraklion?

Monday is the cheapest day to depart from Cluj-Napoca to Heraklion, at €115.68. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, as of September 13, 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.

Which month is cheapest for Cluj-Napoca to Heraklion?

February is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from Cluj-Napoca to Heraklion, at €86.28 for one passenger. Each month is priced on its fifteenth, so the comparison is like for like rather than a mix of weekends and midweek departures.

Who runs service from Cluj-Napoca to Heraklion?

5 operators sell services from Cluj-Napoca to Heraklion across 1 mode: Aegean Airlines, Blue Air, HiSky Europe, Tarom, Wizz Air Malta. Journey times, fares and fare conditions differ between them, and the operator table on this page compares all of them on speed, flexibility and what is provided on board.

Is there a direct service from Cluj-Napoca to Heraklion?

79 percent of the services we sell from Cluj-Napoca to Heraklion are direct. The rest connect at Timişoara, Craiova, Sofia, Bucharest, with about 78 minutes between the two services. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is rebooked at no charge.

Which station or terminal do services from Cluj-Napoca to Heraklion use?

Services from Cluj-Napoca to Heraklion by flight leave from Cluj-Napoca CLJ and arrive at Irákleion HER. Allow about 3h 10m in total for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one, which is already included in every door to door time on this page.

Can I change or refund a ticket from Cluj-Napoca to Heraklion?

0 of the 5 operators we sell from Cluj-Napoca to Heraklion allow a change or a refund. A change on a changeable fare costs €5.00. The operator table on this page names which is which, and the condition is shown again before you pay.

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, Distances

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Cluj-Napoca to Heraklion on September 13, 2026: 1317 km of route against 1278 km in a straight line, 19 services a day, 5 operators a cheapest fare of €97.53, and 5h 14m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

Being on the water gives Heraklion a set of days out that do not start at a station. We do not sell those either.

A guided tour group

Day trips out of Heraklion and across Greece

Day trips that leave Heraklion in the morning and cover a good part of Greece by evening.

Partner links. We do not sell tours or tickets. We earn a commission on a booking, and it never changes the price.

The two ends, compared

Cluj-Napoca reaches 101 places in 30 countries on services we hold, over distances from 64 to 2,796 km. Heraklion reaches 134 places in 32 countries, from 88 to 3,566 km.

Other ways to make this journey

Leaving Cluj-Napoca

  • 101Places you can leave for
  • 30Countries
  • 19Operators

Arriving in Heraklion

Leaving Heraklion

  • 134Places you can leave for
  • 32Countries
  • 82Operators

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