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Ios to Piraeus-Athens

3 operators run this water, from 4 h 20 to 9 h 05 — a difference of 4 h 45 on the same crossing. Piraeus-Athens has an airport 20 km from the quay, so this is a crossing you can make one way and fly the other.

Every way across

One row per operator and speed. Where a service is sold as fast and its average does not clear 45 km/h, the word appears in quotation marks — the boat is fast craft, the crossing is not.

SeaJets Ios → Piraeus-Athens 195 km fast crossing 4 h 20 fast 2× daily 45 km/h average
Blue Star Ferries Ios → Piraeus-Athens 195 km conventional crossing 7 h 25 rate not held 26 km/h average
Operator not recorded Ios → Piraeus-Athens 198 km crossing 7 h 25 rate not held 27 km/h average
Cyclades Fast Ferries Ios → Piraeus-Athens 195 km fast crossing 9 h 05 "fast" rate not held 21 km/h average
Blue Star Ferries Ios → Piraeus-Athens 198 km crossing not held rate not held

Other ways to reach Piraeus-Athens

If this crossing does not suit, these quays also reach Piraeus-Athens without a change. It is the question a single-route page cannot answer about itself and an atlas can.

Aegina – Piraeus-Athens 35 min Aegean Flying Dolphins, Aegina Ferries
Agistri – Piraeus-Athens 50 min Aegean Flying Dolphins, Magic Sea Ferries
Methana – Piraeus-Athens 50 min Aegean Flying Dolphins, Magic Sea Ferries
Poros – Piraeus-Athens 1 h 05 Aegean Flying Dolphins, Alpha Lines
Hydra – Piraeus-Athens 1 h 10 Alpha Lines, Blue Star Ferries
Kythnos – Piraeus-Athens 1 h 35 Aegean Sea Lines, Cyclades Fast Ferries
Spetses – Piraeus-Athens 1 h 50 Alpha Lines, Blue Star Ferries
Syros – Piraeus-Athens 2 h 05 Blue Star Ferries, SeaJets
Ermioni – Piraeus-Athens 2 h 20 Blue Star Ferries, Hellenic Seaways
Tinos – Piraeus-Athens 2 h 25 Blue Star Ferries, SeaJets

And other ways to reach Ios

Sikinos – Ios 10 min Blue Star Ferries, Cyclades Fast Ferries
Andros – Ios 15 min Golden Star Ferries
Kea – Ios 15 min Blue Star Ferries, Hellenic Seaways
Lavrio – Ios 15 min Blue Star Ferries, Hellenic Seaways
Thirasia – Ios 15 min Blue Star Ferries
Folegandros – Ios 30 min Blue Star Ferries, Cyclades Fast Ferries
Santorini (Thira) – Ios 40 min Blue Star Ferries, Cyclades Fast Ferries
Naxos – Ios 45 min Blue Star Ferries, SeaJets
Paros – Ios 1 h 10 Blue Star Ferries, Golden Star Ferries
Thira (Santorini) – Ios 1 h 10 Blue Star Ferries

Where else these quays go

Which months this runs

Season not heldwe can say when we looked, not which months run

Our records for the Ios–Piraeus-Athens crossing were read on 11 August 2026 and describe the network as it ran that week. We hold no month-by-month variation, so this page cannot tell you whether a crossing runs in February.

If you are travelling well outside August 2026, confirm with the operator before you plan around it.

What we do not know

No fares. The choice between SeaJets at 4 h 20 and Cyclades Fast Ferries at 9 h 05 is mostly a price decision, and we hold no prices for either.

No departure times. A weekly rate is a lower bound on how often the crossing runs — never a clock.