Sitia to Heraklion runs about 1 times a day, with the first departure around 23:50 and the last around 23:50. One passenger pays €11.88, every fee included. The fastest door to door is 4h 35m over 97 km, on services run by 1 operator across 1 mode.
What one seat costs
Every operator we hold on this corridor starts at €11.88, so there is no spread to show.
Typical fares
€11.88
- 37%Moves across the booking window
When it runs, leaving Sitia
First and last sailing as the operators themselves filed them for September 17, 2026, counted in this direction only. The return crossing runs on its own timetable and this page does not speak for it.
- 23:50First departure
- 23:50Last departure
- 1Services per day
- 100%Run direct
Sailings on September 17, 2026
Real sailings, with the fares the operator is charging. Check the season before you count on one.
23:5002:152h 25m
BLUE STAR FERRIESVessel BLUE STAR CHIOSDirect
SITIA → HERAKLIO
from €15.00deckseat €17.00 €40.50
E ticketVehicles carriedPets carried
Fares on the crossing run from €15.00 to €40.50 on September 17, 2026, depending on the sailing and on whether you take a deck space, a seat or a cabin.
Blue Star 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 the operator is charging, by departure date.
September 17, 2026
€15.00
BLUE STAR FERRIES
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 ferry gets you into Heraklion. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.
A room in Heraklion for the night the ferry 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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When to book Sitia to Heraklion
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
- €11.8814 days
- €11.887 days
- €16.293 days
- €14.641 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 37 percent. The most expensive point is €16.29, 3 days out.
- What that means
- Today sits outside the cheap window, which opens around 90 days before departure. There is no advantage to booking this minute.
Book now Fares on this route are lowest around 7 days ahead, so there is no rush yet.
This corridor, specifically
Facts that apply to Sitia 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
97 km
88 km as the crow flies, 10% further by the route services actually take. The bearing runs west.
Who lives at each end
8,707 → 137,154
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
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
- 33% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 67% involve one connection.
- How far it really runs
- The route covers 97 km against 88 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 Karpathos, Firá. The gap between arriving and leaving is 73 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 13 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 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.
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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 Police Department
Most of the points near Police Department open before the first train and close after the last one.
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Questions about Sitia 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 Sitia to Heraklion?
The fastest journey from Sitia to Heraklion takes 4h 35m door to door, of which 3h 28m is spent moving, on the ferry. Most services take around 4h 49m, 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 Sitia to Heraklion?
The cheapest fare from Sitia to Heraklion is €11.88, as of September 14, 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €11.88. 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 Sitia to Heraklion?
The cheapest way from Sitia to Heraklion is by ferry, at €11.88 for one passenger on September 21, 2026. That journey takes 4h 58m 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 Sitia to Heraklion?
Fares from Sitia to Heraklion 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 37 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 Sitia to Heraklion?
Sunday is the cheapest day to depart from Sitia to Heraklion, at €11.88. 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 Sitia to Heraklion?
October is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from Sitia to Heraklion, 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 Sitia to Heraklion?
1 operators sell services from Sitia to Heraklion across 1 mode: Blue Star. 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 Sitia to Heraklion?
33 percent of the services we sell from Sitia to Heraklion are direct. The rest connect at Karpathos, Firá, with about 73 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 Sitia to Heraklion use?
Services from Sitia to Heraklion by ferry leave from SITIA and arrive at HERAKLIO. 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 Sitia to Heraklion?
1 of the 1 operators we sell from Sitia 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 Sitia to Heraklion on September 14, 2026: 97 km of route against 88 km in a straight line, 3 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €11.88, and 4h 35m 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.
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.
See Heraklion on GetYourGuideOr browse Viator
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The two ends, compared
Sitia reaches 6 places in 1 countries on services we hold, over distances from 88 to 375 km. Heraklion reaches 134 places in 32 countries, from 88 to 3,566 km.
Other ways to make this journey
Leaving Sitia
- 6Places you can leave for
- 1Countries
- 1Operators
Arriving in Heraklion
Leaving Heraklion
- 134Places you can leave for
- 32Countries
- 82Operators