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Village outside Fira

How to get to Karterados by bus

KTEL lists Karterados on the fare row "Fira – Karterados – Messaria" and on the PDF fare panel. The fare table also publishes through fares from Karterados to Perissa, Emporio, Vlychada, Akrotiri (beach) and Athinios port, so tickets to those places are sold from here.

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By bus

Getting to Karterados

KTEL lists Karterados on the fare row "Fira – Karterados – Messaria" and on the PDF fare panel. The fare table also publishes through fares from Karterados to Perissa, Emporio, Vlychada, Akrotiri (beach) and Athinios port, so tickets to those places are sold from here.

  • Fare from Fira: €2.20 ordinary (fare table row "Fira – Karterados – Messaria"; PDF panel "Karterados 2,20 €").
  • Published through fares from Karterados: Perissa €2.30 (17.1 km), Emporio €2.20 (14.0 km), Vlychada €2.50 (18.7 km), Akrotiri beach €2.20 (16.3 km), Athinios port €2.20 (12.4 km).
  • OpenStreetMap maps a KTEL stop named Karterados on the Fira – Airport and Fira – Kamari relations; KTEL publishes no stop sequence, so confirm the stop with the driver.

Source: KTEL Thiras / Santorini Public Buses: Official fare table (last update 19/05/2026) () · KTEL Thiras / Santorini Public Buses: Printable timetable PDF (last update 15/09/2026) () · OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): Overpass export of KTEL Santorini bus relations and stations

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Worth your time

What Karterados does best

Karterados is the residential village immediately south-east of Fira. KTEL sells tickets from here towards the south coast, the port and Emporio, which makes it a practical base for anyone who wants to avoid the Fira hub queue yet still reach the beaches by bus.

Staying here instead of Fira

Cheaper rooms and a short hop into the capital; the through fares mean the south coast is one ticket away rather than two.

The old village core

Below the main road the older lanes drop into a small ravine of traditional houses that most visitors never see.

Good to know

  • Buses towards Fira and buses away from Fira use opposite sides of the main road; ask which shelter serves your direction.
  • No published departure column names Karterados: times on this site are the Fira departures of the routes that carry through fares from here.

Keep exploring

Three blue church domes above the caldera in Oia, Santorini Caldera village Oia The postcard village at the island’s northern tip — blue domes, white lanes, and the sunset everyone queues for. Plan the ride Whitewashed buildings of Fira stacked along the caldera cliff edge The island hub Fira Santorini’s capital and the centre of its bus network — every published corridor starts and ends here. Plan the ride Kamari's black-sand beach with sunbeds beneath the Mesa Vouno headland Black-sand resort Kamari A long black-sand beach with a proper seafront promenade, an open-air cinema, and ancient Thera on the mountain above. Plan the ride

Bus routes serving Karterados

From the current KTEL timetable. KTEL publishes no stop list, so the evidence behind each route is stated. Timetable PDF last updated .

Published fares naming Karterados: Fira – Karterados – Messaria €2.20. All fares.

Through fares KTEL publishes from Karterados: Athinios Port €2.20; Perissa €2.30; Emporio €2.20; Vlychada €2.50; Akrotiri beach (Red Beach) €2.20.

Stop coordinates 36.40997, 25.44175 (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); KTEL publishes no stop coordinates.