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

Evia (Euboea) is Greece's second-largest island and the one most visitors reach without ever boarding a ferry: bridges at Chalkida cross the Euripus Strait, the narrow channel whose current famously reverses direction several times a day. That single fact shapes the buses. There is no island loop and no coastal circuit here — KTEL Evia (ΚΤΕΛ ΝΟΜΟΥ ΕΥΒΟΙΑΣ Α.Ε.) runs an intercity operation, and the 7 routes and 12 stops in our Evia timetables all radiate from a single station in Chalkida along an island that runs roughly 180 km down the mainland coast. Plan for distances that feel mainland-sized, because they are.

The Evia bus network at a glance

The hub is the KTEL Evia station in Chalkida, at Styron 1, and practically every journey on this page begins or ends there. The network is a fan, not a ring: buses head north-west through Prokopi to Limni, Rovies and the spa town of Loutra Edipsou; east and south-east to Eretria, Amarynthos, Aliveri, Avlonari and Kymi; and once a day deep south to Karystos. No service joins the north to the far south, so getting from Edipsos to Karystos means riding back into Chalkida and starting again.

Two other operations are easy to confuse with this one. Chalkida has its own urban bus network (Astiko KTEL Chalkidas), covering the city and its suburbs with different stops and a separate timetable. And KTEL Evia runs coaches off the island altogether — Chalkida to Athens, Thessaloniki and Patra, plus direct Athens services to Kymi, Aidipsos and Eretria. Neither appears in our island timetables, though the mainland coaches are often the fastest way in.

One habit worth adopting: the operator publishes one time per departure, taken at the origin of that route, and intermediate times are simply not printed. If you are joining at Prokopi, Istiaia or Amarynthos rather than at Chalkida, ask the station counter or the driver when the bus passes your stop. The Saturday timetable also asks passengers to be at the station 15 minutes before departure.

Main Evia bus routes

• Chalkida ↔ Eretria ↔ Amarynthos: the busiest corridor in our data, running down the near stretch of the east coast to ancient Eretria and on to the seaside town of Amarynthos — route details.

• Chalkida ↔ Aliveri: the other high-frequency line and the workhorse of the east coast; Aliveri is also the junction where the Kymi buses call — route details.

• Chalkida ↔ Kymi: via Aliveri to Kymi, the balcony town above the east coast and the jumping-off point for the ferry to Skyros — route details.

• Chalkida ↔ Avlonari: the central-east villages inland of Kymi, surprisingly well served for a rural corridor — route details.

• Chalkida ↔ Limni ↔ Rovies: the north-west line, inland through Prokopi and then along the Evian Gulf to two likeable small coastal towns — route details.

• Chalkida ↔ Loutra Edipsou: the long haul to the north tip via Prokopi and Istiaia, for Greece's best-known thermal spa town; only a handful of runs, so this one needs planning — route details.

• Chalkida ↔ Karystos: the full length of southern Evia to the harbour town under Mount Ochi. A single published round trip on weekdays and nothing at weekends — read the section below before you count on it — route details.

KTEL Evia publishes more on-island services than these seven — commuter and village lines towards Psachna, Mantoudi, Steni, Gymno, Vasilika and elsewhere — but the corridors above are the ones travellers actually use. See the full Evia bus timetable for every departure we hold.

Arriving on Evia: a road island with one ferry town

Because of the bridges, Evia has no arrivals hall and no single ferry gateway. Nearly everyone comes in through Chalkida, by car or on a mainland coach, and the KTEL Evia station is where you change onto the island network; flying into Athens, the sequence is airport, coach to Chalkida, island bus. Evia's own ferry town is Kymi, which links the island to Skyros — see below, because there is a catch.

Tickets and fares

Fares are distance-based and set by the operator; we publish no euro figures for Evia, so buy at the counter rather than trusting an amount quoted on a blog. At Chalkida you buy at the station kiosk before boarding; from a village stop you generally pay the driver, so carry cash. KTEL Evia also sells seats through its own online booking system. Evia tickets are not yet available through Greek Island Buses — where we do sell them, the price is identical to the counter and you board with a QR code on your phone. What we hold for Evia is the current departure list for every route: the Evia bus timetable.

Kymi, and the ferry to Skyros

The Chalkida–Kymi bus is the on-island link towards Skyros, with one gap to plan around. The buses serve Kymi town; the ferry sails from Paralia Kymis, the port around 4 km below, and no local times are published for that last stretch. Budget for a taxi on sailing day. KTEL Evia also runs a dedicated, date-by-date Athens–Paralia Kymis coach programme timed to the Skyros sailings; that is a mainland service outside our island timetables, but for many Skyros travellers it is the simpler option. In the other direction, one Saturday departure from Avlonari to Chalkida is marked as a through coach off the Skyros boat continuing to Athens.

North Evia: Prokopi, Limni, Rovies and the Edipsos spas

The north is the part of Evia that Greeks themselves travel for: Prokopi, the gulf-side towns of Limni and Rovies, and Loutra Edipsou, whose hot springs have drawn bathers since antiquity. Both lines are far thinner than the east-coast corridors, and the weekend is where people come unstuck: the Saturday table carries no Chalkida to Loutra Edipsou departure at all, and the Sunday within-prefecture table shows no return from Aidipsos. Check both directions before committing to a weekend spa trip. On the Limni and Rovies line, one Saturday return is published with a change at Mantoudi rather than as a through run.

Karystos and the far south

Karystos is the most misjudged destination on this network. The published service is a single weekday round trip — out in the early afternoon, back before dawn the next morning — with no Saturday or Sunday departures in the day tables, so as a day trip by bus it simply does not work. Most travellers reach Karystos and Marmari from Athens instead, on the ferry from Rafina to Marmari at the island's southern tip; that crossing is outside our timetables, but it is the honest answer. If you do ride the Chalkida–Karystos bus, plan on staying the night.

Seasons, weekends and the small print

The summer 2026 programme has been in force since 13 June 2026, and KTEL Evia publishes three separate tables — Monday to Friday, Saturday and Sunday — with Sunday consistently the thinnest. Two departures on the Eretria–Amarynthos–Aliveri corridor carry their own narrower window, 15 June to 11 September 2026, and stop before the rest of the summer service does. Several runs are marked as passing services or as journeys requiring a change, so a line on the timetable is not always a through bus. The winter 2026/27 timetable had not been published when we last checked in August 2026.

Plan your trip

Browse the complete Evia bus timetable for current departures on every route, and see things to do on Evia. On an island this long, the return departure matters more than the outbound one — check it before you set off.