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

Leros has exactly one bus. A single municipal line runs the length of the island, from Xirokampos in the south through Lakki, Platanos, Agia Marina and Alinda to Partheni and Blefouti in the north — 12 stops and 11 trips a day, Monday to Saturday, operated by Leros Municipal Bus (Δημοτικό Λεωφορείο Λέρου). It is a genuinely thin service, and this guide is honest about what it will and will not do for you.

The Leros bus network at a glance

There is no KTEL on Leros and no urban network: one small bus, one road, one line, out and back. That road happens to thread together almost everywhere a visitor wants to be. Lakki, the main port, is the extraordinary 1930s town built under Italian rule as a naval base and still standing as a near-complete piece of rationalist architecture. Platanos is the hillside centre below the castle, with Agia Marina on the water underneath it. Alinda, two stops further on, is the island's main beach strip. All of them are on the line, along with Temenia, Agyra, Vromolithos, Krithoni, Kamara, Partheni and Blefouti.

End to end takes about three quarters of an hour: the published running times are 46 minutes from Xirokampos up to Blefouti and 44 minutes back down.

The Leros bus route

• Xirokampos ↔ Lakki ↔ Platanos ↔ Alinda ↔ Partheni ↔ Blefouti: the island's only bus line, and the only public transport between the port, the two hill towns and the northern beaches — route details.

Every published departure in both directions is listed on the full Leros bus timetable.

Reading the timetable: two traps

Eleven trips means six one way and only five the other, and the two ends of the day are not symmetrical.

The first bus of the day does not start at Xirokampos. It begins mid-route at Platanos at 08:30 and heads north from there, so the southern end of the island has nothing until the middle of the morning.

The last northbound bus does not come back. The final departure out of Xirokampos, at 16:30, runs only as far as Kamara, arriving at 17:00 — it does not continue to Partheni or Blefouti, and there is no return working behind it. Take it and you are getting home some other way. Late afternoon is where people come unstuck on Leros; work out your return before you commit to the outward leg.

The Blefouti catch

Blefouti, the sheltered bay at the northern tip, is printed as the last stop and the timetable shows buses leaving it through the day. In practice, travellers report that outside July and August the bus often turns at the Partheni junction by the army barracks and never runs down to the beach at all. We publish the Blefouti times as printed, because that is what the timetable says — but if Blefouti is the whole point of your day, ask the driver on the way out whether he is going the full distance.

Tickets and fares

You pay the driver in cash on board; there is no kiosk and no machine. The summer 2026 timetable circulating on the island quotes €2 to €3.50 depending on distance, so a hop from Platanos to Alinda costs less than the full run up from Xirokampos. Treat that as indicative rather than official — see the note below on where the timetable comes from — and carry small notes and coins. Leros tickets are not yet sold online through Greek Island Buses; where an operator does sell through us the price is the same as on board and you travel with a QR code on your phone.

Days, seasons and where the timetable comes from

The service runs Monday to Saturday under the summer timetable introduced on 1 June 2026. No Sunday service is published at all — assume there is none and plan around it. Two things are worth saying plainly. The municipality's own bus pages are currently offline, so the summer timetable circulates as a photographed sheet rather than an official publication, and no winter timetable has appeared yet. The printed sheet on the bus itself and the board at the Platanos stand are the final authority; the municipality answers on +30 22470 23711, and the driver's number is published as +30 694 1538937.

When the bus does not fit your day

With eleven trips and nothing on a Sunday, some plans simply will not work by bus on Leros. Nothing in the timetable is marked as an airport connection, so arrange a taxi for flights, and remember that the last northbound run stops short in the late afternoon. What the line does do well is cover both harbours — Lakki and Agia Marina are both stops, so you are connected whichever one your boat uses — and put Alinda, Vromolithos and Krithoni within a few minutes of the two towns. Check the full Leros bus timetable before you set out, and see our Leros island page for what is worth walking to from each stop.