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Karpathos to Kos

1 operator run this water, from 8 h 00 to 13 h 00 — a difference of 5 h 00 on the same crossing. Kos has an airport 21 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.

Blue Star Ferries Karpathos → Kos 155 km crossing 8 h 00 rate not held 19 km/h average
Operator not recorded Karpathos → Kos 155 km crossing 13 h 00 daily 12 km/h average

Other ways to reach Kos

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

Bodrum – Kos 15 min Dentur Avrasya, Exas Shipping Services
Pserimos – Kos 30 min Anem Ferries
Turgutreis – Kos 30 min Dentur Avrasya
Kalymnos – Kos 35 min Anem Ferries, Blue Star Ferries
Nisyros – Kos 45 min Anem Ferries, Blue Star Ferries
Panormitis – Kos 1 h 20 Dodekanisos Seaways
Leros – Kos 1 h 25 Anem Ferries, Blue Star Ferries
Symi – Kos 1 h 25 Blue Star Ferries, Dodekanisos Seaways
Tilos – Kos 1 h 30 Blue Star Ferries, Dodekanisos Seaways
Astypalea – Kos 1 h 50 Blue Star Ferries, Dodekanisos Seaways

And other ways to reach Karpathos

Diafani – Karpathos 42 min Anek Lines, Blue Star Ferries
Kasos – Karpathos 1 h 15 Anek Lines, Blue Star Ferries
Chalki – Karpathos 2 h 31 Anek Lines, Blue Star Ferries
Sitia – Karpathos 3 h 30 Anek Lines, Blue Star Ferries
Rhodes – Karpathos 4 h 17 Anek Lines, Blue Star Ferries
Heraklion – Karpathos 6 h 15 Anek Lines, Blue Star Ferries
Anafi – Karpathos 7 h 47 Anek Lines, Blue Star Ferries
Kalymnos – Karpathos 9 h 49 Blue Star Ferries
Santorini (Thira) – Karpathos 10 h 15 Blue Star Ferries

Where else these quays go

Also from Karpathos

Anafi · Chalki · Diafani · Heraklion · Kalymnos · Kasos · Leros · Lipsi · Milos · Naxos · Paros · Patmos · Piraeus-Athens · Rhodes

Also from Kos

Agathonisi · Agios Kirikos · Amorgos · Arki · Astypalea · Bodrum · Chalki · Didim · Evdilos · Fournoi · Kalymnos · Karlovassi · Kasos · Kastelorizo

Which months this runs

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

Our records for the Karpathos–Kos 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 Blue Star Ferries at 8 h 00 and the slowest at 13 h 00 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.