Íos to Kéa runs about 5 times a day, with the first departure around 06:41 and the last around 07:30. One passenger pays between €11.88 and €11.89, every fee included, depending on the operator and the way you travel. The fastest door to door is 5h 53m over 144 km, on services run by 1 operator across 1 mode.
What one seat costs
The spread between the cheapest and dearest typical fare on this corridor, across 1 operator and 1 way of making the journey. The operator sets the price on the day.
Typical fares
€11.88 to €11.89
- 130%Moves across the booking window
When it runs, leaving Íos
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.
- 06:41First departure
- 07:30Last departure
- 5Services per day
- 20%Run direct
Hellenic Seaways runs this service and does not sell it here. AFerry takes the payment.
Buying this trip
AFerry holds the sailings between these two ports, with the crossing times and the fares.
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Fares by date
What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.
Typical fares
- about €23.98Tue15
- about €21.24Wed16
- about €27.29Thu17
- about €16.84Fri18
- about €23.43Sat19
- about €19.04Sun20
- about €14.09Mon21
- about €11.89Tue22
- about €15.74Wed23
- about €16.29Thu24
- about €15.74Fri25
- about €16.84Sat26
- about €14.64Sun27
- about €14.64Mon28
- about €11.88Tue29
- about €12.44Wed30
- about €12.44Thu1
- about €15.19Fri2
- about €11.89Sat3
- about €11.88Sun4
- about €11.88Mon5
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 ferry gets you into Kéa. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.
A room in Kéa for the night the ferry gets in
Sort by distance from KEA and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.
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When to book Íos to Kéa
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
- €14.6414 days
- €14.097 days
- €27.293 days
- €23.981 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 130 percent. The most expensive point is €27.29, 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.
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This corridor, specifically
Facts that apply to Íos to Kéa 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
144 km
131 km as the crow flies, 10% further by the route services actually take. The bearing runs north-west.
Who lives at each end
2,024 → 0
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
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
- 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 Páros, Kýthnos, Síkinos, Náxos. 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.
Who runs this route
The ferry gets in hours before any room is ready. Holding a bag is not what we sell.
Baggage storage near KEA
Most of the points near KEA open before the first train and close after the last one.
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Questions about Íos to Kéa
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 Íos to Kéa?
The fastest journey from Íos to Kéa takes 5h 53m door to door, of which 4h 34m is spent moving, on the ferry. Most services take around 6h 9m, 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 Íos to Kéa?
The cheapest fare from Íos to Kéa is €11.88, as of September 14, 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €15.19. 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 Íos to Kéa?
The cheapest way from Íos to Kéa is by ferry, at €11.89 for one passenger on September 29, 2026. That journey takes 6h 4m 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 Íos to Kéa?
Fares from Íos to Kéa bottom out around 90 days before departure, at €11.88. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the most expensive lead time is 130 percent, measured on September 14, 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.
Which day of the week is cheapest for Íos to Kéa?
Tuesday is the cheapest day to depart from Íos to Kéa, at €11.89. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, as of September 14, 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.
Which month is cheapest for Íos to Kéa?
November is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from Íos to Kéa, at €11.88 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 Íos to Kéa?
1 operators sell services from Íos to Kéa across 1 mode: Hellenic Seaways. 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 Íos to Kéa?
20 percent of the services we sell from Íos to Kéa are direct. The rest connect at Páros, Kýthnos, Síkinos, Náxos, with about 45 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 Íos to Kéa use?
Services from Íos to Kéa by ferry leave from IOS and arrive at KEA. Allow about 1h 30m 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 Íos to Kéa?
1 of the 1 operators we sell from Íos to Kéa 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 Íos to Kéa 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 €11.88, and 5h 53m 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 Kéa a set of days out that do not start at a station. We do not sell those either.
Day trips out of Kéa and across Greece
Day trips that leave Kéa in the morning and cover a good part of Greece by evening.
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The two ends, compared
Íos reaches 14 places in 1 countries on services we hold, over distances from 15 to 198 km. Kéa reaches 9 places in 1 countries, from 26 to 131 km.
Other ways to make this journey
Leaving Íos
- 14Places you can leave for
- 1Countries
- 5Operators
Arriving in Kéa
Leaving Kéa
- 9Places you can leave for
- 1Countries
- 4Operators