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

Salamina is not a holiday island and its bus network does not pretend to be one. It sits about five minutes by ferry from Perama, at the edge of the Athens port sprawl, and works as a commuter suburb rather than a resort — so KTEL Salamina (ΚΤΕΛ Σαλαμίνας) runs a dense, numbered, year-round network of eight lines, 25 stops and 639 departures, built around getting people to the boat rather than the beach. For a visitor — here for the site of the 480 BC Battle of Salamis, the Faneromeni monastery, or a swim within an hour of Athens — that is all upside: frequent, live-tracked, and running in February as well as August.

The Salamina bus network at a glance

There is one hub and it is the ferry quay. Every route starts at Paloukia, where the Perama boats land, so you step off the ramp straight onto the network — no walk into town, no bus station to find. The lines are numbered 1 to 8: north-west to Faneromeni, west and south-west to Aianteio, Vasilika and the beaches, south-east to Ampelakia and Selinia. Salamina Town is a stop on the trunk line, not the hub.

Two things make this network unusually easy for a Greek island. It runs year-round with no summer/winter split: the current programme dates from Monday 15 June 2026, weekday tables are identical Monday to Friday, and one table covers Saturday and Sunday. And the operator runs live tracking, on its own citybus platform and an Android app.

Main Salamina bus routes

• Line 1 — Paloukia ↔ Salamina Town ↔ Paralia Aianteiou: the trunk service and by a long way the busiest: 191 departures, roughly a third of the island's total, linking ferry, capital and the Aianteio beach strip — route details.

• Line 2 — Paloukia ↔ Agios Grigorios ↔ Faneromeni: the one most visitors want, north-west to Steno Faneromenis for the Faneromeni monastery, the island's best-known sight — route details.

• Line 6 — Paloukia ↔ Aianteio ↔ NATO ↔ Flevariotissa: the second-busiest, down the west side through Aianteio village and its beach to the stop named after the naval facility — route details.

• Line 7 — Paloukia ↔ Kaki Vigla ↔ Gyala ↔ Limniona: the beach line proper. The return does not retrace the outbound: buses come back from Limniona via Gyala and Kaki Vigla, then cross to the west-coast road — route details.

• Line 5 — Paloukia ↔ Ampelakia ↔ Selinia: south-east around the bay to Ampelakia and the Selinia seafront — route details.

• Line 3 — Paloukia ↔ Vasilika ↔ Ano Vasilika ↔ Batsi: the north-west villages and Vasilika beach. Some departures turn at Batsi, others work to the Paralia Vasilikon end, so check the destination board — route details.

• Line 8 — Paloukia ↔ Aianteio ↔ Peristeria ↔ Kolones: the second Aianteio-side line — route details.

• Line 4 — Paloukia ↔ Ergatikes Katoikies ↔ Deilina ↔ Xeno: a residential line through the housing districts — essential if you are staying there — route details.

All eight lines, both directions, are on the full Salamina bus timetable.

Arriving from Perama

The crossing from Perama to Paloukia takes a few minutes: a commute, not a voyage. Every line begins at the quay, so the bus is simply the second half of the journey — and in reverse, wherever you are, the bus you want is the one signed Paloukia.

Beaches you can reach by bus

More than you would expect. Line 7 covers Kaki Vigla and Gyala; lines 1, 6 and 8 reach the Paralia Aianteiou strip; line 3 serves Paralia Vasilikon; line 5 runs to Selinia. The gap is Kanakia on the far west coast: the operator's system carries a Kanakia line entry, but no routes and no times are published anywhere, so treat it as a taxi destination.

The commuter timetable, and early starts

This is a working island's schedule, and it shows in the first hour. On weekdays several lines begin not at Paloukia but at the far end, running inbound to catch the early boats: line 7 from Gyala at 05:30, line 4 from Ergatikes Katoikies at 05:40, lines 2, 5 and 6 from Agios Georgios, Selinia and NATO at 05:50, line 1 from Paralia Aianteiou at 05:55 and line 3 from Vasilika at 06:00. These are Monday-to-Friday workings with no weekend equivalent, so a Sunday start from an outlying village is much later.

Printed table or live tracking?

Use both, but know which is authoritative. Checked against the printed programme, the platform's Paloukia departures matched exactly and the far termini agreed within a minute or two — but at intermediate stops it interpolates, and can be several minutes out either way. Plan from the printed timetable; use the live map to see whether your bus has left.

Tickets and fares

You pay the driver on board, in cash. KTEL Salamina revised its fares in March 2026 and publishes them on its own site; we carry no fare figures, so ask the driver rather than trusting an amount quoted elsewhere. Salamina tickets are not sold online through Greek Island Buses; where an operator does sell through us the price is identical and you board with a QR code on your phone.

How current is this?

This programme started on 15 June 2026, replacing one that had run since 1 May. No end date is published and there is no seasonal changeover. Check the current Salamina timetable before planning around a departure, and see our Salamina island page for what the lines reach.