How to Get Around Chios by Bus (2026 Guide): Routes, Stops, Times & Fares

Chios runs two separate bus systems, and knowing which one you need is most of the battle. The urban operator, Chios City Buses, covers Chios Town and the ring of suburbs, beaches and the airport around it — that is the network we hold, 8 numbered lines and 241 stops, all starting from the bus station in the centre of town. The mastic villages of the south — Pyrgi, Mesta, Olympi — belong to a different company we do not list yet. This guide covers what the city buses do well, and where they stop being the answer.

Two operators on Chios — and only one of them is here

The network we publish is Chios City Buses — Αστικό ΚΤΕΛ Χίου Α.Ε., at chioscitybus.gr and on +30 22710 22079. Its numbered lines run north from Chios Town to Vrontados and Daskalopetra, and south through Kampos and Thymiana to Karfas beach and Chios Airport. Locals tell the two fleets apart by colour: the urban buses are the blue ones.

The green intercity buses belong to Υπεραστικό ΚΤΕΛ Χίου, a separate operator with its own terminal in Chios Town, and it serves the rest of the island: the mastic villages, the north at Kardamyla and Volissos, and the west. We do not list any of those routes. When our researchers checked on 5 August 2026 the intercity site, ktelchios.gr, returned a server certificate error and no timetable could be read, so nothing was published rather than guessed. Directory listings give the intercity station as 22710 24257 and 22710 27507 on Omirou street — confirm by phone, as none of it could be verified online.

One structural point: every city line is a one-way loop that leaves the town bus station, works round its corridor and finishes back on the town waterfront — so the way home is the later part of the same sequence, not a bus back the way you came. Paired lines run the same loop in opposite rotations (203 and 204 against 205 in the south; 104, 107 and 113 against 101 and 105 in the north), which is why the same beach appears on several route numbers.

Main Chios city bus lines

• Line 104 — Chios Town, Hospital, Foros, Erithiani, Daskalopetra: the workhorse of the network and much the busiest line we hold, running inland through Vrontados to Daskalopetra, the beach beside Homer's Stone — route details.

• Line 205 — Chios Town, Airport, Karfas, Megas Limnionas, Thymiana, Kampos: the busiest southern line, and the rotation that reaches the airport early in its loop — the one to look for if you are heading to a flight — route details.

• Line 204 — Chios Town, Kampos, Thymiana, Megas Limnionas, Karfas, Airport: the same corridor in the opposite rotation, taking in the citrus estates of Kampos and the beaches at Megas Limnionas and Agia Ermioni — route details.

• Line 105 — Chios Town, Hospital, Daskalopetra, Erithiani: the coastal way north to Daskalopetra, past Kastelo Beach and the Vrontados shore — route details.

• Line 107 — Chios Town, Hospital, Erithiani, Agios Markos, Daskalopetra: the Vrontados hillside working, for anyone staying above the coast road — route details.

• Line 113 — Chios Town, Hospital, Agios Markos, Daskalopetra: the coast-then-hillside variant — route details.

• Line 203 — Chios Town, Gkiazou, Neochori, Thymiana, Karfas, Airport: the inland southern variant via Neochori; a thin service, and it does not run on Sundays — route details.

• Line 101 — Chios Town, Hospital, Daskalopetra, Hospital, Chios Town: the thinnest of the northern group, a couple of runs along the coast road — route details.

Chios City Buses runs roughly fifty more route codes, including the 300s out to the Kampochora villages, which we have not published yet. What we hold is complete where it counts: between them these eight lines carry every departure the operator publishes this season to Daskalopetra and to Karfas and the airport — all on the full Chios bus timetable.

Getting from the airport and the port

Chios Airport (JKH) is close to town on the southern corridor, and three of our lines call there: 205, 204 and 203. Direction matters more than the number. On the 205 the airport comes early in the loop out of town, which makes it the practical choice for a departing flight; on the 204 and 203 it falls near the end, after Kampos, Thymiana and Karfas, so boarding those in town means a long ride round the south first. The operator's separate airport timetable sheet is a view over these same lines, not an extra service.

The ferry port is in Chios Town itself and the southern lines pass along the waterfront on their way out, so boat to bus is easy. Every line finishes its loop back on that waterfront.

Tickets and fares

Chios City Buses prices by zone, not by route. The operator's own ticket page lists Zone A at €1.30 (€0.70 reduced) and Zone B at €1.70 (€1.00 reduced), rising to €2.00 and €2.50 if you buy from the driver. Which line sits in which zone is not published, so buy before boarding where you can — the town station is the reliable place. Tickets are not yet sold online through Greek Island Buses; where a Greek operator does sell online, the price is identical and you board with a QR code on your phone.

Live times and reading the stops

Chios is unusual among Greek islands in having real-time information: the operator's platform at chios.mybus.gr shows the next buses due at each stop. Use it. Only the departures from the town station are printed values; times further along each line are modelled to within a minute or two.

Two things about the 241 stops we hold. The operator registers each side of the road as its own stop, same name, different code — so check you are on the side going your way, especially on the northern lines, which pass the same corridor twice in a trip. And stop names are transliterated from Greek, often naming a shop or a bridge rather than anywhere on a map, so match your stop by its position on the route.

Which days the buses run

The summer programme took effect on 1 July 2026 and no end date is published; the previous winter timetable was announced in late October, so expect a changeover in late September or early October. Check the operator's announcements page if you travel late in the season.

Sunday service is reduced, and four of our eight lines — 101, 107, 113 and 203 — do not run on Sundays at all. One quirk worth diarising: the operator prints its Sunday timetable as applying on Sundays and on 22 July and 15 August, so on 15 August, one of the busiest travel days of the Greek summer, buses run to the reduced schedule. Everything we hold is on the full Chios bus timetable.

The mastic villages: what the city buses cannot do

Pyrgi with its painted geometric facades, the medieval fortress village of Mesta, and Olympi are why many people come to Chios — and none is on the city network. Nor are Nea Moni, Kardamyla or Volissos. They belong to the green intercity buses of Υπεραστικό ΚΤΕΛ Χίου, from its own terminal in Chios Town, an operator whose timetables we could not obtain and so do not publish. Do not plan a mastic-village day from this site: go to the intercity terminal and ask for the day's departures and — the part that catches people out — the last bus back, since these are village services timed for residents, not day trippers. We will add those routes as soon as the operator's timetables can be read again.

Plan your trip

Browse the complete Chios bus timetable for every city line and stop we hold, check the live board before you commit, and remember the rule of this island: the blue buses are the town network, and everything beyond it is somebody else's timetable.