A private transfer from Chania Airport to Sitia Airport covers 269.0 km (167.1 mi) in about 3 hr 55 min and costs a fixed fare from €350 per vehicle, not per person.
One booking covers the journey in either direction: arrival from Chania Airport, or the departure run back from Sitia Airport at the same fixed fare.
Fares are per vehicle, not per person, and cover the whole car, so a family of four pays once. The price you see is the price confirmed on your voucher; it does not change with traffic, time of day, or a delayed flight.
| Vehicle | Typical models | Passengers | Bags | Fare | |
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SUV | Skoda Karoq | up to 4 | 4 | €350 |
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Premium | Mercedes E Class, Skoda Kodiaq, Jeep Compass | up to 4 | 4 | €370 |
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Minivan | Peugeot Traveller, Mercedes Vito | up to 8 | 8 | €410 |
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Minibus | Mercedes Sprinter | up to 18 | 18 | €495 |
The same fare applies in both directions: Sitia Airport back to Chania Airport costs the same as the arrival leg. Child and booster seats are added at booking, at no extra charge.
The line is the road a driver actually takes from Chania Airport (CHQ) to Sitia Airport: 269.0 km (167.1 mi), about 3 hr 55 min door to door. Pickup and drop-off are marked at the coordinates the booking engine quotes against, not at the centre of the nearest town.
Your driver meets you inside the arrivals hall at Chania Airport, holding a sign with your name and the company name on it. Your transfer starts there rather than at a taxi rank, so there is no queue and no fare to agree on the spot.
Chania International Airport (CHQ) sits on the Akrotiri peninsula, on high ground east of the city. Chania International Airport handled 1,574,043 international arrivals in 2025, which makes it the island's second gateway after Heraklion and the natural entry point for western Crete.
The airport's position matters for what happens next. The road down from Akrotiri joins the national road just east of Chania, so Rethymno, Georgioupolis and the whole north coast run east without entering the city, while Platanias, Kissamos and the west coast run through or around it.
Chania Airport is a single-terminal airport, so the walk from baggage reclaim to the meeting point is short even when several flights land together.
Inside the arrivals hall, at the exit, where your driver waits with a name board.
Look for the board rather than heading for the taxi rank. If your flight arrives late at night, the driver is still there: the pickup is set against the flight, not the schedule.
Give us your flight number at booking. Your pickup is scheduled against that flight, and we track it, so a delayed landing moves the pickup rather than costing you the transfer.
Tell us as early as you can when a flight is cancelled or rerouted, so the driver can be reassigned.
Sitia Airport is the small public airport serving the far east of Crete, a few kilometres north of Sitia town. Sitia Airport handles domestic flights and a limited number of seasonal international services, so most visitors to this end of the island still arrive at Heraklion and drive.
The terminal is small and the road to it short, with the town and its port both within a few minutes.
Its value is for anyone connecting from Athens or the islands rather than flying in directly from abroad.
We drop you at the departures entrance, or meet you in the arrivals area with a board showing your name.
Flights here are few and the terminal empties quickly. Give the flight number at booking so the driver is there for the actual arrival rather than the scheduled one.
The drive crosses the island end to end, 269.0 kilometres in about 3 hr 55 min, from the western airport to the small terminal at the eastern tip.
This is a transfer between two airports that no aircraft connects. Sitia handles domestic services and a limited seasonal international schedule, so passengers making this journey are usually continuing through Athens or on to the islands, and the road is the only link between the two terminals.
Your driver meets you in the arrivals hall and the car comes down off Akrotiri onto the national road east of Chania. Aptera and Souda Bay open the run, the Apokoronas villages follow, and Rethymno passes at 70.3 kilometres.
Panormos, Bali and Fodele take the headlands, Ammoudara opens the Heraklion coast at 139.0 kilometres, and the city goes by on the bypass at roughly half distance.
Malia comes at 180.0 kilometres, Sissi at 189.0, and the coast empties before Mirabello Bay. Agios Nikolaos is passed at 219.0, the road climbs into the eastern hills for the last hour, and the airport turning arrives before the descent into the town.
Sitia's terminal is small and its road short, and the drop is at the departures entrance rather than at the back of a queue.
Flights here are few, which changes what the pickup has to be built around. A departure missed at Sitia is not recovered later the same day, so the time on your voucher is worked back from the check-in your airline asks for rather than from a round hour.
The town, the port and the airport are quoted identically from this hub, at 269.0 kilometres and the same fare in every vehicle class, so the choice between them changes the door and nothing else.
No public route connects the two airports on a schedule a flight could rely on.
Chania's bus station, close to three hours to Heraklion, three and a half more to Sitia, and then a local taxi out to the terminal, come to most of a day and three changes. Every leg has to hold for the flight to be caught.
The return leg is the same journey in reverse: 269.0 km (167.1 mi), about 3 hr 55 min, and the same fixed fare from €350 per vehicle. Your driver collects you from your accommodation in Sitia Airport at the agreed time and takes you straight to Chania Airport.
Sitia Airport back to Chania Airport covers the same 269.0 kilometres at the same fixed price.
A small terminal empties in minutes, so the car is moving almost as soon as the aircraft is down. Westbound the eastern hills are the slow section and the Akrotiri climb waits at the end, where a delay is hardest to recover.
Book both directions together and the return is held at the same fare. Switch the form at the top of this page to Departure, or select a return when you book.
Allow about 3 hr 55 min of driving, the check-in time your airline asks for at Sitia, and a real margin for the eastern hills and the three city approaches.
Give us both flight numbers at booking, the one you land on here and the one you leave on there. We track arrivals, so a late inbound moves the pickup rather than costing you the transfer.
The fare covers the whole vehicle rather than each seat, so 4 people pay the same as 1. The price on your voucher is the price you pay, with no booking fee and no card surcharge.
Your driver waits in the arrivals hall holding a sign with your name on it. You walk out of baggage reclaim straight to the car, without joining a taxi rank or agreeing a fare on the spot.
Child seats cost nothing extra. Reserve the seat in the booking form and state the child's age, so the correct seat is fitted before the driver sets off.
Cancel at least 24 hours before your pickup time and you pay nothing. Plans change; the booking does not lock you in.
The vehicle carries your party and nobody else. It runs from the pickup point to your exact address, with no intermediate stops and no waiting for other passengers.
Your pickup is set against your flight number, not a clock time. Transfers run at any hour, which covers night landings and pre-dawn departures.
Every booking is confirmed by a person and carries a voucher showing your route, vehicle, pickup time and fare.
These are the questions guests ask most often about the Chania Airport to Sitia Airport transfer, answered with this route's own distance, duration and fares.
Anything not covered here is answered when we confirm the booking.
A private transfer from Chania Airport to Sitia Airport costs a fixed €350 for an SUV carrying up to 4 passengers. A Minivan for up to 8 people is €410.
Not a scheduled one. Sitia handles domestic services and a limited seasonal international schedule, so the road is the connection between these terminals.
No. From this hub the town, the port and the airport are all 269.0 kilometres and the same fare, so name the one you need.
Far closer, by roughly half. Sitia lies at the eastern end of the island and Heraklion is the airport that serves that end of it.
Work back from the departure: about 3 hr 55 min of driving plus your airline's check-in requirement plus a margin. Send the flight number and the exact time goes on the voucher.
Per vehicle. The fare covers the car and everyone in it, up to that vehicle's passenger and luggage limit. Two people and four people pay the same €350 for a Standard car to Sitia Airport.
Yes, at no extra charge. Reserve the seat in the booking form and state the child's age so the correct infant, child or booster seat is fitted before the driver sets off.
Give us your flight number when you book. We track the flight and move the pickup to match the actual landing time, so a delay does not cost you the transfer.
Inside the arrivals hall, at the exit, where the driver waits with a board showing your name. You do not need to find a taxi rank or a car park level.
Yes. Cancel at least 24 hours before your pickup time and there is no charge.
Pay by card online when you book, or in euros in cash to the driver. There is no card surcharge and no booking fee either way.
You receive a confirmation email with your route, vehicle, pickup time and fare on it. Check the details and tell us if anything is wrong. An automated receipt on its own is not the confirmation. The emailed voucher is.
Yes. Chania Airport to Sitia Airport and Sitia Airport to Chania Airport are the same journey at the same fixed €350, and both directions are booked from this page. Select a return when you book and the price is held for both legs.
Those routes are priced the same way as this one: a fixed fare per vehicle, confirmed before you travel. The same applies to every Crete taxi we run, from the airports and ports to the resorts and villages along both coasts.