There are 9 ways to get from Edinburgh to Karpathos by train, plane, bus, ferry, or busferry
Select an option below to see step-by-step directions and to compare ticket prices and travel times in Rome2Rio's travel planner.
Train to Newcastle, fly to Karpathos Island National Airport
best- Take the train from Edinburgh Waverley to Newcastletrain
- Fly from Newcastle (NCL) to Karpathos Island National Airport (AOK)plane NCL - AOK
20h 43m€147–481Fly Edinburgh Airport to Rhodes International Airport, ferry
cheapest- Fly from Edinburgh Airport (EDI) to Rhodes International Airport (RHO)plane EDI - RHO
- Take the ferry from Rhodes to Karpathosferry
13h 34m€103–274Train, bus, ferry via Strasbourg
- Take the train from Edinburgh Waverley to King's Crosstrain
- Take the train from London St Pancras Intl to Paris Nordtrain Eil
- Take the train from Paris Est to Strasbourgtrain Tgv
- Take the bus from Strasbourg Bahnhof to Tiranabus
- Take the bus from Tirana, Terminali Lindor I Autobusave to Peiraiasbus
- Take the ferry from Port of Piraeus to Karpathosferry Bsf
2d 6hFly Edinburgh Airport to Karpathos Island National Airport
- Fly from Edinburgh Airport (EDI) to Karpathos Island National Airport (AOK)plane EDI - AOK
11h 22m€111–391Fly Edinburgh Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”, ferry
- Fly from Edinburgh Airport (EDI) to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER)plane EDI - HER
- Take the ferry from Heraklion to Karpathosferry
15h 8m€132–323Train to Glasgow Airport, fly to Karpathos Island National Airport
- Take the train from Edinburgh Waverley to Glasgow Queen Streettrain
- Fly from Glasgow Airport (GLA) to Karpathos Island National Airport (AOK)plane GLA - AOK
18h 38m€153–451Fly Edinburgh Airport to Dalaman Airport, bus, ferry
- Fly from Edinburgh Airport (EDI) to Dalaman Airport (DLM)plane EDI - DLM
- Take the bus from Dalaman Havalimanı to Marmaris Otogarbus
- Take the ferry from Port of Marmaris to Port of Rhodesferry
- Take the ferry from Rhodes to Karpathosferry
16h 56m€215–508Train, bus, ferry
- Take the train from Edinburgh Waverley to King's Crosstrain
- Take the bus from Bounds Green Road London to Tiranabus
- Take the bus from Tirana, Terminali Lindor I Autobusave to Peiraiasbus
- Take the ferry from Port of Piraeus to Karpathosferry Bsf
2d 13hTrain, bus and ferry, bus, ferry
- Take the train from Edinburgh Waverley to Manchester Piccadillytrain
- Take the busferry from Manchester Piccadilly to Arad, Autogara Transdarabusferry
- Take the bus from Arad, Autogara Transdara to Rusebus
- Take the bus from Ruse to Piraeusbus
- Take the ferry from Port of Piraeus to Karpathosferry Bsf
3d 10h€358–715
Newcastle (NCL) to Karpathos Island National Airport (AOK) flights
Comparing Your Travel Options
The cheapest way to get from Edinburgh to Karpathos is to fly and ferry which costs €100 - €280 and takes 13h 34m.
The fastest way to get from Edinburgh to Karpathos is to fly which takes 11h 22m and costs €110 - €400.
The distance between Edinburgh and Karpathos is 3323 km.
The best way to get from Edinburgh to Karpathos without a car is to train and bus and ferry via Strasbourg which takes 2 days 6h and costs .
It takes approximately 20h 43m to get from Edinburgh to Karpathos, including transfers.
Karpathos is 2h ahead of Edinburgh. It is currently 8:26 PM in Edinburgh and 10:26 PM in Karpathos.
There are 387+ hotels available in Karpathos.
What companies run services between Edinburgh, Scotland and Karpathos, Greece?
Eurowings, easyJet, and Olympic Air fly from Edinburgh Airport (EDI) to Karpathos Island National Airport (AOK) twice a week.
- Website
- en.aegeanair.com
Flights from Newcastle to Karpathos Island National Airport via Rhodes International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 25m
- When
- Saturday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €110–380
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Rhodes International Airport via Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 35m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €100–320
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Karpathos Island National Airport via Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 15m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- €100–380
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” via Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 5m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €110–330
- Website
- jet2.com
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Rhodes International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 40m
- When
- Tuesday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €70–240
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 25m
- When
- Monday and Thursday
- Estimated price
- €55–130
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Dalaman Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 40m
- When
- Monday, Friday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €130–390
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Rhodes International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 35m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- €60–140
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 30m
- When
- Tuesday, Wednesday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €75–270
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Dalaman Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 35m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €110–450
- Website
- flypgs.com
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Dalaman Airport via Sabiha Gokcen
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €100–460
- Website
- eurowings.com
Flights from Newcastle to Karpathos Island National Airport via Dusseldorf
- Ave. Duration
- 28h 10m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- €100–420
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Karpathos Island National Airport via Dusseldorf
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 10m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- €90–380
- Website
- tui.nl
Flights from Newcastle to Karpathos Island National Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 10m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €160–480
Flights from Glasgow Airport to Karpathos Island National Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 50m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €140–410
- Website
- olympicair.com
Flights from Newcastle to Karpathos Island National Airport via Rhodes International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 25m
- When
- Saturday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €110–380
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Karpathos Island National Airport via Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 15m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- €100–380
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Rhodes International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 30m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €70–240
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Rhodes International Airport via Budapest
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 40m
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €70–240
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Newcastle to Karpathos Island National Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 24h 55m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €170–700
- Website
- transavia.com
Flights from Glasgow Airport to Karpathos Island National Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 45m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- €140–650
- Website
- sunexpress.com
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Dalaman Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 35m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €120–360
Train from Edinburgh Waverley to Newcastle
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 21m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €45–70
- Website
- London North Eastern Railway Limited (LNER)
Train from Edinburgh Waverley to King's Cross
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 8m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €150–220
- Website
- London North Eastern Railway Limited (LNER)
Train from Edinburgh Waverley to King's Cross
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 8m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €150–220
- Website
- London North Eastern Railway Limited (LNER)
Train from Edinburgh Waverley to Newcastle
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 29m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €60–95
- Website
- Cross Country
Train from Edinburgh Waverley to Newcastle
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 44m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €40–70
- Website
- TransPennine Express
Train from Edinburgh Waverley to Manchester Piccadilly
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 15m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €75–130
- Website
- TransPennine Express
- Phone
- +44 330 060 0500
- Website
- Caledonian Sleeper
Train from Edinburgh Waverley to Newcastle
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 40m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €30–50
- Website
- Caledonian Sleeper
- Phone
- +44 (0)3432 186 186
- Website
- Eurostar
Train from London St Pancras Intl to Paris Nord
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 28m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €160–270
- Website
- Eurostar
- Phone
- +33 1 84 94 36 35
- Website
- TGV inOui
Train from Paris Est to Strasbourg
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 46m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €85–130
- Website
- TGV inOui
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Paris Est to Strasbourg
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 46m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- €80–170
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
- Phone
- +33 1 84 94 36 35
- Website
- Oui.SNCF
Train from Paris Est to Strasbourg
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 48m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €75–130
- Website
- Oui.SNCF
- Phone
- +44 (0)344 811 0141
- Website
- ScotRail
Train from Edinburgh Waverley to Glasgow Queen Street
- Ave. Duration
- 50 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €21–35
- Website
- ScotRail
- Phone
- 0345 528 0409
- customerexperience@lumo.co.uk
- Website
- Lumo
Train from Edinburgh Waverley to Glasgow Queen Street
- Ave. Duration
- 53 min
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €9–16
- Website
- Lumo
- Phone
- +355 68 20 63 724
- info@arjanitravel.com
- Website
- arjanitravel.com
Bus from Strasbourg Bahnhof to Tirana
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 52m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Schedules at
- arjanitravel.com
- Phone
- +355 69 617 8170
- diamanttravel88@gmail.com
- Website
- facebook.com
Bus from Tirana, Terminali Lindor I Autobusave to Peiraias
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 45m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €40–85
- Schedules at
- Diamant Travel
Bus from Tirana, Terminali Lindor I Autobusave to Peiraias
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 45m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €40–85
- Schedules at
- Diamant Travel
- Phone
- 4444801
- info@muttas.com.tr
- Website
- ulasim.muttas.com.tr
Bus from Dalaman Havalimanı to Marmaris Otogar
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 20m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €7–10
- Schedules at
- ulasim.muttas.com.tr
- Phone
- +355 69 232 8000
- anumitravel@gmail.com
- Website
- facebook.com
Bus from Bounds Green Road London to Tirana
- Ave. Duration
- 29h 39m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Schedules at
- facebook.com
- Phone
- 0040263701919
- latinoexpres@yahoo.com
- Website
- latinoexpres.ro
Busferry from Manchester Piccadilly to Arad, Autogara Transdara
- Ave. Duration
- 35h 54m
- Frequency
- 5 times a week
- Estimated price
- €65–170
- Schedules at
- latinoexpres.ro
- Phone
- +359 899199328
- omega_group@abv.bg
- Website
- bgrazpisanie.com
Bus from Arad, Autogara Transdara to Ruse
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 15m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €45–65
- Schedules at
- bgrazpisanie.com
- Phone
- 02 981 13 33
- outgoing@tourist-service.com
- Website
- Tourist Service Holding AD
Bus from Ruse to Piraeus
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 30m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- €80
- Website
- Tourist Service Holding AD
- Phone
- +359 0885700870
- support@citylines.eu
- Website
- Citylines
Bus from Ruse to Piraeus
- Ave. Duration
- 18h
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- €60–85
- Website
- Citylines
- Phone
- +30 21 0891 9800
- bluestarferries@bluestarferries.com
- Website
- Blue Star Ferries
Ferry from Port of Piraeus to Karpathos
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 30m
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- €110–270
- Website
- Blue Star Ferries
Ferry from Rhodes to Karpathos
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 35m
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- €30–80
- Website
- Blue Star Ferries
Ferry from Heraklion to Karpathos
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 35m
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- €45–110
- Website
- Blue Star Ferries
Ferry from Rhodes to Karpathos
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 35m
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- €30–80
- Website
- Blue Star Ferries
Ferry from Port of Piraeus to Karpathos
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 30m
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- €110–270
- Website
- Blue Star Ferries
Ferry from Port of Piraeus to Karpathos
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 30m
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- €110–270
- Website
- Blue Star Ferries
- Phone
- +30 22410 74 235
- info@seadreams.gr
- Website
- Sea Dreams
Ferry from Port of Marmaris to Port of Rhodes
- Ave. Duration
- 1h
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- €47
- Website
- Sea Dreams
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