There are 10 ways to get from Crete to France by plane, busferry, bus, train, car ferry, or car
Select an option below to see step-by-step directions and to compare ticket prices and travel times in Rome2Rio's travel planner.
Fly to Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport
best- Fly from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER) to Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport (CDG)HER - CDG
6h 30m€83–263Fly to Marseille Provence Airport
cheapest- Fly from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER) to Marseille Provence Airport (MRS)HER - MRS
6h 8m€74–259Bus and ferry, bus, train
- Take the busferry from Heraklion Port to Tirana
- Take the bus from Tirana to Montpellier
- Take the train from Montpellier Saint-Roch to Paris Gare De LyonTgv
47h 11mCar ferry, drive
- Take the car ferry from Heraklion Port to Port of Piraeus
- Drive from Port of Piraeus to Paris
35h 10m€580–840Fly to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport
- Fly from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER) to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport (LYS)HER - LYS
6h 8m€96–236Fly to Paris Orly Airport
- Fly from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER) to Paris Orly Airport (ORY)HER - ORY
6h 29m€124–274Fly to Nantes Atlantique Airport
- Fly from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER) to Nantes Atlantique Airport (NTE)HER - NTE
6h 39m€78–243Fly to Stuttgart Airport, train
- Fly from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER) to Stuttgart Airport (STR)HER - STR
- Take the train from Hauptbahnhof to Strasbourg Bahnhof
8h 6m€118–317Bus and ferry, bus via Thessaloníki
- Take the busferry from Heraklion to Thessaloniki
- Take the bus from Thessaloníki to Tirana
- Take the bus from Tirana to Paris Gare de Lyon
2d 3hBus and ferry, bus
- Take the busferry from Heraklion Port to Tirana
- Take the bus from Tirana to Paris Nord
2d 9h
Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER) to Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport (CDG) flights
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Crete to France is to fly which costs €70 - €260 and takes 6h 8m.
The fastest way to get from Crete to France is to fly which takes 6h 8m and costs €95 - €240.
No, there is no direct bus from Crete to France. However, there are services departing from Heraklion Port and arriving at Châtelet / Coutellerie via Tirana and Gare du Nord. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 2 days 9h.
The distance between Crete and France is 2421 km.
The best way to get from Crete to France without a car is to bus and ferry and bus and train which takes 47h 11m and costs .
It takes approximately 6h 30m to get from Crete to France, including transfers.
Crete to France bus services, operated by Alb Trans, depart from Heraklion Port station.
Crete to France bus services, operated by Alb Trans, arrive at Tirana station.
France is 1h behind Crete. It is currently 6:43 AM in Crete and 5:43 AM in France.
There are 22926+ hotels available in France.
What companies run services between Crete, Greece and France?
Sky Express, easyJet, and two other airlines fly from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER) to Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport (CDG) 5 times a day.
- Website
- en.aegeanair.com
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 45m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- €85–320
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport via Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 12m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €85–320
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 15m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- €70–190
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport via Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 18m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- €70–230
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Marseille Provence Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 10m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- €50–220
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Marseille Provence Airport via Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 17m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- €50–270
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Nantes Atlantique Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 5m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- €40–210
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Stuttgart Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €50–170
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Stuttgart Airport via Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 30m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- €90–180
- Website
- skyexpress.gr
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- €65–200
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport via Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €65–200
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 15m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €75–170
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Marseille Provence Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 5m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €45–260
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Nantes Atlantique Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 50m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €95–340
- Website
- volotea.com
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 45m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- €85–320
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 15m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- €70–190
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Marseille Provence Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 10m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- €50–220
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Nantes Atlantique Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 5m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- €40–210
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Nantes Atlantique Airport via Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 40m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- €40–210
- Website
- transavia.com
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- €95–440
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Marseille Provence Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 15m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- €95–440
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Paris Orly Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €110–550
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Nantes Atlantique Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- €110–490
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 45m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- €60–260
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €80–170
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Nantes Atlantique Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- €110–330
- Website
- airfrance.com
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 45m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €100–480
- Website
- ita-airways.com
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Paris Orly Airport via Milan Linate
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 20m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €100–350
- Website
- eurowings.com
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Stuttgart Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €50–170
- Website
- condor.com
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Stuttgart Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €85–410
- Website
- tui.com
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Stuttgart Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 10m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €160–410
- Phone
- +33 1 84 94 36 35
- Website
- sncf-connect.com
Train from Montpellier Saint-Roch to Paris Gare De Lyon
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 28m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €55–160
- Website
- https://www.sncf-connect.com/en-en
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Contact Details
- Phone
- +33 1 84 94 36 35
- Website
- track.effiliation.com
Train from Montpellier Saint-Roch to Paris Gare De Lyon
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 27m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €90–190
- Website
- https://track.effiliation.com/servlet/effi.redir?id_compteur=23007591&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sncf-connect.com%2Fen-en%2F
- Phone
- +49 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Hauptbahnhof to Strasbourg Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 23m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- €35–75
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +355 42 239 203 / +355 69 400 4075
- albtrans06@yahoo.com
- Website
- facebook.com
Busferry from Heraklion Port to Tirana
- Ave. Duration
- 24h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Website
- https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063548259783
- Phone
- +355 69 232 8000
- info@anumitravel.com
- Website
- facebook.com
Bus from Tirana to Montpellier
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 36m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Schedules at
- facebook.com
Bus from Tirana to Paris Nord
- Ave. Duration
- 32h
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Schedules at
- facebook.com
- Phone
- +30 2810 24 50 20
- info@ktelherlas.gr
- Website
- ktelherlas.gr
Busferry from Heraklion to Thessaloniki
- Ave. Duration
- 16h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €60–85
- Schedules at
- ktelherlas.gr
- Phone
- +355 67 604 2191
- Website
- facebook.com
Bus from Thessaloníki to Tirana
- Ave. Duration
- 8h
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Schedules at
- autobus.al
- Phone
- +355 68 20 63 724
- info@arjanitravel.com
- Website
- arjanitravel.com
Bus from Tirana to Paris Gare de Lyon
- Ave. Duration
- 25h 6m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Schedules at
- arjanitravel.com
- Phone
- +30 210 710 7 710
- reservations.dpt@seajets.gr
- Website
- seajets.com
Car ferry from Heraklion Port to Port of Piraeus
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 30m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €89–90
- Website
- https://www.seajets.com/
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