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Hillside village

Fira to Vourvoulos bus: timetable, fare and return times

Fira ↔ Vourvoulos is a current published corridor with limited service: the maintained timetable lists a 14:00 departure from Fira and 07:40 and 14:10 departures from Vourvoulos. The sources publish no guaranteed connection with another corridor, so plan any change in Fira as a separate journey.

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Getting to Vourvoulos

Fira ↔ Vourvoulos is a current published corridor with limited service: the maintained timetable lists a 14:00 departure from Fira and 07:40 and 14:10 departures from Vourvoulos. The sources publish no guaranteed connection with another corridor, so plan any change in Fira as a separate journey.

  • Ordinary fare listed by KTEL: €2.20.
  • The maintained publication lists 14:00 from Fira, and 07:40 and 14:10 from Vourvoulos.
  • No guaranteed connection is published; allow your own margin for a separate departure in Fira.

Source: KTEL Thiras / Santorini Public Buses: Interactive route table (updated 18 May 2026) () · KTEL Thiras / Santorini Public Buses: Printable current timetable () · KTEL Thiras / Santorini Public Buses: Official fare table ()

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Before you go

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Take the route and return guidance for this destination offline. Recheck the official timetable on your travel day because published departures change with the season.

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White houses of Vourvoulos spread across a hillside in Santorini
Photo: Κλέαρχος Π. Καπούτσης, Attribution-only permission (Wikimedia Commons)

Worth your time

What Vourvoulos does best

Vourvoulos is a different kind of Santorini destination: a lived-in village of white houses spread across the slope, away from the caldera-centre itinerary. KTEL includes it among the nine current corridors from Fira, but the maintained publication shows only a limited set of departures. Build the return leg into the visit rather than treating the bus as a turn-up-and-go service.

A village on the slope

Vourvoulos spreads in tiers of white houses rather than along the caldera rim. Its everyday village scale is the point: this is a stop for seeing another side of the island, not racing between headline sights.

A slower bus day

The limited published departures make the journey part of the plan. Check both directions before leaving Fira and decide in advance which return departure fits your day.

Fira as the connection

The official network is centred on Fira. If Vourvoulos is one part of a longer day, treat the next corridor as a fresh trip with your own time margin.

Good to know

  • Do not infer frequency from other Santorini corridors: Vourvoulos has its own limited directional list.
  • The maintained times are departures, not arrival promises; recheck the current PDF on the day you travel.
  • For airport or Athinios travel, changing in Fira means separate legs with no guaranteed connection.

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