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

Poros has one bus, and it is smaller than most people expect: a free municipal mini bus running a one-way loop of eight stops around Poros Town, operated by the municipality as the Poros Municipal Bus (Δημοτική Συγκοινωνία Σφαιρίας — the municipal service of Sferia, the little peninsula the town is built on). There is no KTEL network and no island-wide line. Knowing that before you arrive is the most useful thing in this guide, because a good deal of what is written about Poros buses describes a service across the island that the municipality does not actually publish.

The Poros bus network at a glance

The loop starts at the new ferry port — the Αφετηρία, or starting point, on the municipality's own route map, opposite the Hotel Dionysos — and runs one way around the town: Cinema (Cine Diana), the Chatzopouleios Municipal Library, Heroes Square, Evangelismos, Solomonidis Square, Stavros and Agios Stefanos, then back to the port. Eight stops, one direction.

That last part matters. Because it is a one-way loop, there is no other direction to catch: if you miss your stop, or your destination is one stop behind you, you ride the rest of the circuit rather than crossing the road and going back. It is a short circuit around a small town, so this is an inconvenience rather than a disaster — but it catches people out.

The route

• Poros Town loop (New Port → Cinema → Library → Heroes Square → Evangelismos → Solomonidis Square → Stavros → Agios Stefanos → New Port): the island's only scheduled bus service, linking the ferry quay with the town squares and the Agios Stefanos waterfront — route details.

One important note about times: the municipality publishes operating hours by season, not a departure list. The individual departures shown on the full Poros bus timetable are derived from those published windows rather than copied from a printed table, so treat them as the shape of the service rather than a train schedule.

When the bus runs

In summer — from 1 June until schools reopen — the published operating hours are 09:00–14:00 and 19:40–00:20. That is a morning shift and a long evening one that covers dinner and gets you back to the port well after midnight, with nothing at all through the hottest part of the afternoon. From the school reopening until 31 October the autumn hours are 08:00–11:00, 13:00–14:15 and 19:00–24:00 on weekdays, and 10:00–15:00 and 19:00–24:00 at weekends. Winter, Easter and spring windows are published on the same municipal page.

How often the bus comes round within those windows is not something the municipality states. The island's visitor site describes the mini bus as running every 20 minutes from the new port, which divides the published summer windows exactly — a sound working assumption rather than an official headway. If your plan depends on it, the Municipality of Poros answers on +30 22983 20500.

Getting to Askeli, Kanali and the monastery

This is the section worth reading twice. The best-known trips on Poros — Askeli beach, Kanali, and the Zoodochos Pigi monastery — are on Kalavria, the large wooded half of the island across the narrow channel from the town. Several guides describe the municipal bus as a Kanali–Askeli–Monastiri circular. The municipality's own route graphic does not: it shows the eight-stop town loop above and nothing else, and no Askeli or monastery timetable is published anywhere on the municipal site. Taxis, water taxis and rented scooters cover that side of the island, and seasonal private minibuses may run — but they are not a published scheduled service, so arrange transport locally rather than waiting at a stop for a bus that may not be coming.

Arriving on Poros

There are two ways in, and both put you within reach of the loop. Ferries and fast boats from Piraeus come down the Saronic Gulf and dock in Poros Town, a few steps from the loop's starting point at the new port. From the Peloponnese, the crossing from Galatas is only a few hundred metres across the strait — small boats run back and forth all day, and the town is directly in front of you when you land. Either way, you arrive in the middle of the only area the bus serves.

Tickets and fares

There is nothing to buy. The municipal mini bus is described by the island's own visitor pages as a free service — the municipality publishes no fare at all, and there is no kiosk, no payment to the driver and no ticket to validate. Poros is not an island where Greek Island Buses sells tickets; where an operator does sell through us the price is identical to the counter and you board with a QR code on your phone. What we hold for Poros is the loop, its stops and the seasonal operating windows: see the full Poros bus timetable.

Is the loop worth catching?

Poros Town is small and most of it is walkable, so for a lot of visitors the honest answer is that you will use the bus twice: once arriving and once leaving. It earns its place when you have luggage and a room up the hill, and late in the evening, when the summer window runs past midnight and the walk back around the waterfront is longer than it looked at dinner. For everything beyond the town, plan on your own two feet, a taxi or a boat — and see our Poros island page for what is worth the effort.