There are 10 ways to get from Nice to Crete by plane, train, busferry, bus, car ferry, or ferry
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Fly Nice Côte D'Azur International Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
best- Fly from Nice Côte D'Azur International Airport (NCE) to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER)plane NCE - HER
7h 55m€98–246Train, bus and ferry, bus, car ferry
- Take the train from Ventimiglia to Milano Centraletrain Ic
- Take the train from Milano Centrale to Anconatrain Fr
- Take the busferry from Ancona to Durrësbusferry
- Take the bus from Durrës to Piraeusbus
- Take the carferry from Port of Piraeus to Heraklion Portcarferry
45h 16mFly Nice Côte D'Azur International Airport to Sitia Airport
- Fly from Nice Côte D'Azur International Airport (NCE) to Sitia Airport (JSH)plane NCE - JSH
16h 28m€182–414Fly Nice Côte D'Azur International Airport to Chania International Airport
- Fly from Nice Côte D'Azur International Airport (NCE) to Chania International Airport (CHQ)plane NCE - CHQ
5h 58m€109–344Train to Marseille Provence Airport, fly to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Take the train from Nice Ville to Marseille St Charlestrain
- Fly from Marseille Provence Airport (MRS) to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER)plane MRS - HER
7h 59m€112–358Train to Marseille Provence Airport, fly to Chania International Airport
- Take the train from Nice Ville to Marseille St Charlestrain
- Fly from Marseille Provence Airport (MRS) to Chania International Airport (CHQ)plane MRS - CHQ
8h 43m€128–456Train, bus and ferry, bus
- Take the train from Ventimiglia to Roma Ostiensetrain Ic
- Take the busferry from Roma, Autostazione Tiburtina to Vlorëbusferry
- Take the bus from Vlorë to Ioanninabus
- Take the busferry from Ioannina to Heraklionbusferry
45h 52mBus, bus and ferry
- Take the bus from Nice to Beogradbus
- Take the bus from Beograd, Autobuska stanica to Thessaloniki, Station Monastirioubus
- Take the busferry from Thessaloniki to Heraklionbusferry
2d€240–590Bus and ferry, bus
- Take the busferry from Ventimiglia to Kavajëbusferry
- Take the bus from Kavajë to Tiranabus
- Take the busferry from Tirana to Heraklion Portbusferry
2d 10hTrain, bus and ferry, bus, ferry
- Take the train from Ventimiglia to Savonatrain Ic
- Take the busferry from Savona FS to Durrësbusferry
- Take the bus from Durrës to Piraeusbus
- Take the ferry from Port of Piraeus to Heraklionferry Hsw
2d 15h€220–340
Nice Côte D'Azur International Airport (NCE) to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER) flights
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Nice to Crete is to fly which costs €95 - €250 and takes 7h 55m.
The fastest way to get from Nice to Crete is to fly which takes 5h 58m and costs €100 - €350.
No, there is no direct bus from Nice to Crete. However, there are services departing from Nice and arriving at Heraklion via Savski most, Blok 28, Beograd, Autobuska stanica and Thessaloniki. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 2 days 0h.
The distance between Nice and Crete is 1804 km.
The best way to get from Nice to Crete without a car is to train and bus and ferry and bus and car ferry which takes 45h 16m and costs .
It takes approximately 7h 55m to get from Nice to Crete, including transfers.
Nice to Crete bus services, operated by Lasta, depart from Nice station.
Nice to Crete bus services, operated by Lasta, arrive at Beograd station.
Crete is 1h ahead of Nice. It is currently 10:47 PM in Nice and 11:47 PM in Crete.
There are 3057+ hotels available in Crete.
What companies run services between Nice, France and Crete, Greece?
Aegean Airlines, easyJet, and two other airlines fly from Nice Côte D'Azur International Airport (NCE) to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER) twice daily.
- Website
- en.aegeanair.com
Flights from Nice Côte D'Azur International Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” via Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 12m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €95–230
Flights from Nice Côte D'Azur International Airport to Sitia Airport via Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 10m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €140–450
Flights from Nice Côte D'Azur International Airport to Sitia Airport via Rome, Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 55m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €130–440
Flights from Nice Côte D'Azur International Airport to Sitia Airport via Naples, Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 5m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- €110–420
Flights from Marseille Provence Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 55m
- When
- Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €55–170
Flights from Marseille Provence Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” via Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 12m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €55–220
Flights from Marseille Provence Airport to Chania International Airport via Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €75–310
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Marseille Provence Airport to Chania International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 50m
- When
- Wednesday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €60–220
Flights from Marseille Provence Airport to Chania International Airport via Naples
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 40m
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €60–220
Flights from Marseille Provence Airport to Chania International Airport via Malta
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 55m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €60–220
Flights from Marseille Provence Airport to Chania International Airport via Bologna
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 5m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- €60–220
- Website
- olympicair.com
Flights from Nice Côte D'Azur International Airport to Sitia Airport via Rome, Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 55m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €130–440
Flights from Nice Côte D'Azur International Airport to Sitia Airport via Naples, Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 5m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- €110–420
- Website
- flyulendo.com
Flights from Nice Côte D'Azur International Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 40m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- €45–230
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Nice Côte D'Azur International Airport to Chania International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 40m
- When
- Tuesday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €70–210
- Website
- wizzair.com
Flights from Nice Côte D'Azur International Airport to Chania International Airport via Belgrade
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 55m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- €65–270
- Website
- volotea.com
Flights from Marseille Provence Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 55m
- When
- Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €55–170
- Website
- skyexpress.gr
Flights from Marseille Provence Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 40m
- When
- Monday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €60–210
- Website
- transavia.com
Flights from Marseille Provence Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 55m
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €85–390
- Phone
- +39 06 68475475
- Website
- Trenitalia Intercity
Train from Ventimiglia to Milano Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 50m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- €30–65
- Website
- Trenitalia Intercity
Train from Milano Centrale to Ancona
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 8m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €45–95
- Website
- Trenitalia Intercity
Train from Ventimiglia to Roma Ostiense
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 43m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- €65–140
- Website
- Trenitalia Intercity
Train from Ventimiglia to Savona
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 21m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €11–23
- Website
- Trenitalia Intercity
- Phone
- +39.06.5210550
- Website
- Trenitalia
Train from Ventimiglia to Milano Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 30m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €35–60
- Website
- Trenitalia
Train from Ventimiglia to Savona
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 57m
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €12–20
- Website
- Trenitalia
- Phone
- +39 06 68475475
- Website
- Trenitalia Frecce
Train from Milano Centrale to Ancona
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 52m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €60–130
- Schedules at
- Trenitalia Frecce
- Phone
- +33 1 84 94 36 35
- Website
- TGV inOui
Train from Nice Ville to Marseille St Charles
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 37m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- €45–75
- Website
- TGV inOui
Train from Nice Ville to Marseille St Charles
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 37m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- €45–75
- Website
- TGV inOui
- Phone
- +33 4 13 94 30 50
- Website
- Zou! Lignes Express Régionales
Train from Nice Ville to Marseille St Charles
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 39m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €55–110
- Website
- Zou! Lignes Express Régionales
Train from Nice Ville to Marseille St Charles
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 39m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €55–110
- Website
- Zou! Lignes Express Régionales
- Phone
- +355697278670
- mb.travel@hotmail.com
- Website
- facebook.com
Busferry from Ancona to Durrës
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 29m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Schedules at
- autobus.al
Busferry from Ventimiglia to Kavajë
- Ave. Duration
- 30h
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Schedules at
- autobus.al
- Phone
- +2105203350
- Website
- top-lines.gr
Bus from Durrës to Piraeus
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 51m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €45
- Schedules at
- top-lines.gr
- Phone
- +30 210 8215414
- info@rucitours.com
- Website
- rucitours.com
Busferry from Roma, Autostazione Tiburtina to Vlorë
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 50m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Schedules at
- rucitours.com
- Phone
- +355 68 407 6607
- komatastours.al@gmail.com
- Website
- facebook.com
Bus from Vlorë to Ioannina
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 1m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Schedules at
- facebook.com
Bus from Durrës to Piraeus
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 13m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €50
- Schedules at
- facebook.com
- Phone
- +30 2810 246530
- info@ktelherlas.gr
- Website
- ktelherlas.gr
Busferry from Ioannina to Heraklion
- Ave. Duration
- 16h
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- €75–110
- Schedules at
- ktelherlas.gr
Busferry from Thessaloniki to Heraklion
- Ave. Duration
- 16h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €80–120
- Schedules at
- ktelherlas.gr
- Phone
- +381 800 334 334
- iuc@lasta.rs
- Website
- lasta.rs
Bus from Nice to Beograd
- Phone
- + 381 011 7555 675
- info@axiostravel.com
- Website
- Axios Travel
Bus from Beograd, Autobuska stanica to Thessaloniki, Station Monastiriou
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 45m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €55–70
- Website
- Axios Travel
- Phone
- +359 0885700870
- support@citylines.eu
- Website
- Citylines
Bus from Beograd, Autobuska stanica to Thessaloniki, Station Monastiriou
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 45m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €35–50
- Website
- Citylines
- Phone
- +30-2310540970
- info@simeonidistours.gr
- Website
- Simeonidis Tours
Bus from Beograd, Autobuska stanica to Thessaloniki, Station Monastiriou
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 56m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €50–75
- Website
- Simeonidis Tours
- Phone
- +383 38 616 161
- Website
- travel.gjirafa.com
Bus from Kavajë to Tirana
- Ave. Duration
- 45 min
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €3–4
- Schedules at
- travel.gjirafa.com
- Phone
- +383 38 616 161
- travel@gjirafa.com
- Website
- gjirafa.com
Bus from Kavajë to Tirana
- Ave. Duration
- 1h
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €3–8
- Schedules at
- Linja të autobusëve Gjirafa
- Phone
- +355 69 930 4724
- basharodolf@gmail.com
- Website
- visit-gjirokastra.com
Bus from Kavajë to Tirana
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 26m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Schedules at
- travel.gjirafa.com
- Phone
- +355 68 402 3400
- info@shpresa.al
- Website
- group.shpresa.al
Bus from Kavajë to Tirana
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 5m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- €4–6
- Schedules at
- group.shpresa.al
- Phone
- +355 69 671 6168
- Website
- travel.gjirafa.com
Bus from Kavajë to Tirana
- Ave. Duration
- 1h
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Schedules at
- travel.gjirafa.com
- Phone
- +355 42 239 203 / +355 69 400 4075
- albtrans06@yahoo.com
- Website
- Alb Trans
Busferry from Tirana to Heraklion Port
- Ave. Duration
- 24h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Website
- Alb Trans
- Phone
- +355696383030
- Website
- firenzelines.com
Busferry from Savona FS to Durrës
- Ave. Duration
- 35h 4m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €100
- Schedules at
- firenzelines.com
- Phone
- +30 210 710 7 710
- info@seajets.gr
- Website
- Seajets
Car ferry from Port of Piraeus to Heraklion Port
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 50m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €130–320
- Website
- Seajets
- Phone
- +30 210 89 19 800
- hellenicseaways@hellenicseaways.gr
- Website
- Hellenic Seaways
Ferry from Port of Piraeus to Heraklion
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 50m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €50–75
- Website
- Hellenic Seaways
- Airplane Type Seats
- €50–75
- Phone
- +30 21 0891 9800
- bluestarferries@bluestarferries.com
- Website
- Blue Star Ferries
Ferry from Port of Piraeus to Heraklion
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 25m
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- €65–150
- Website
- Blue Star Ferries
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