Compare trains, buses, flights and ferries from Kassel to Heraklion. From €182.39, fastest 6h 24m, with the total price and every fee shown up front.
Traveling from Kassel to Heraklion costs €182.39 at the cheapest and takes 6h 24m door to door at the fastest, across 1 mode and 1 operator. The route covers 2,238 km. Cheapest is by flight, fastest is by flight.
Journey times below are door to door, so they include getting to the terminal and away from it at the other end. Fares are the cheapest we currently sell on September 28, 2026.
| Mode | Door to door | Moving | At the ends | From | CO2 | Per day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flight | 6h 51m | 3h 41m | 3h 10m | €249.71 | 550.5 kg | 1 |
Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.
Changes at Frankfurt am Main, with 55 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.
Door to door 7h 20mCO2 541.3 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes
Door to door 6h 51mCO2 550.5 kgChanges 0Fixed, no changes
Live from the operators' own published timetables, through the open transit feeds they publish. Times and services are real. Fares are modeled until our booking connectors are live.
Live from the operators' own published timetables, through the open transit feeds they publish. Times and services are real. Fares are modeled until our booking connectors are live.
Live from our own engine, refreshed on every request. The cheapest days for each way of traveling are marked.
| Cheapest fare by mode and day for Kassel to Heraklion | SunSep 13 | MonSep 14 | TueSep 15 | WedSep 16 | ThuSep 17 | FriSep 18 | SatSep 19 | SunSep 20 | MonSep 21 | TueSep 22 | WedSep 23 | ThuSep 24 | FriSep 25 | SatSep 26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Train | €499.74 | €385.34 | €351.79 | €335.29 | €383.69 | €321.54 | €341.34 | €280.29 | €215.39 | €211.54 | €245.64 | €313.84 | €275.34 | €300.09 |
| Flight | €594.27 | €422.58 | €321.69 | €357.09 | €472.73 | €335.26 | €335.85 | €315.79 | €249.71 | €303.40 | €309.89 | €293.37 | €277.44 | €335.85 |
Cheapest day: 2026-09-28 · €182.39
The flight gets you into Heraklion. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.
Hotels and apartments near downtown, most of them with free cancellation, on a map that shows what is walkable.
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The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
Book now Fares on this route are lowest around 45 days ahead. You are inside that window.
Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
The same journey priced on the fifteenth of each of the next six months.
Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.
The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.
Landing at HER after the trains have stopped is the case this solves. We do not run cars.
Settled in advance, so the ride into Heraklion costs what it said it would rather than what the cab stand says.
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Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.
| Operator | From | Fastest | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Sundair | €190.71 | 6h 24m | 740 km/h | Fixed fare | Not published |
Every part of the total, so the number at checkout is the number here.
| Part | Amount | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Operator fare | €164.00 | 90% |
| Taxes | €16.40 | 9% |
| Our service fee | €1.99 | 1% |
| Total you pay | €182.39 | 100% |
The flight gets in hours before any room is ready. Holding a bag is not what we sell.
Stores, cafes and hotels that take luggage, with the hours on the map so you know what is still open when you come back.
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The fastest journey from Kassel to Heraklion takes 6h 24m door to door, of which 3h 41m is spent moving, on the flight. Most services take around 6h 38m, because that average includes slower stopping services and journeys with a connection. Times include reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end.
The cheapest fare from Kassel to Heraklion is €182.39, checked on September 12, 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €303.40. Both figures are the total for one passenger, including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so nothing is added at checkout.
The cheapest way from Kassel to Heraklion is by flight, at €249.71 for one passenger on September 28, 2026. That journey takes 6h 51m 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.
Fares from Kassel to Heraklion bottom out around 45 days before departure, at €143.34. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the most expensive lead time is 249 percent, measured on September 12, 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.
Tuesday is the cheapest day to depart from Kassel to Heraklion, at €211.54. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, checked on September 12, 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.
February is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from Kassel to Heraklion, at €146.64 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.
1 operators sell services from Kassel to Heraklion across 1 mode: Sundair. 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.
20 percent of the services we sell from Kassel to Heraklion are direct. The rest connect at Frankfurt am Main, Nuremberg, Erfurt, Munich, with about 55 minutes between the two services. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is rebooked at no charge.
Services from Kassel to Heraklion by flight leave from Kassel KSF 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.
0 of the 1 operators we sell from Kassel 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.
Observed service A carrier record shows this named operator serving this named pair, and we carry that through unchanged.
Schedules, seat counts and fares are generated by our own model until the supplier contracts are signed. Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance are real. We would rather say that on every page than let a modeled number pass for a filed one.
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The flight is the simple part. What you do once you are in Heraklion is somebody else's catalog.
Timed entry, guided walks and half-day trips out of Heraklion, with free cancellation on most of it.
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