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Drapetsóna

Drapetsona is a coastal town, a suburb and a former municipality in the southwestern part of the Piraeus regional unit in the Athens Urban Area.

Drapetsóna
Drapetsóna · Nikolaos Diakidis
The place

Drapetsona is a coastal town, a suburb and a former municipality in the southwestern part of the Piraeus regional unit in the Athens Urban Area. Since the 2011 local government reform, it is part of the municipality Keratsini-Drapetsona, of which it is a municipal unit.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Drapetsóna

Airports
Athens Eleftherios Venizelos (ATH), 28 km · Santorini (JTR), 238 km · Chania (CHQ), 273 km
  • Santorini Island → Drapetsóna
    236 km · quickest by ferry, 10h · €53–169
  • Souda → Drapetsóna
    277 km · quickest by air, 4h 55m · €130–190
  • Thessaloniki → Drapetsóna
    305 km · quickest by air, 5h 12m · €140–210
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Drapetsóna

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Drapetsóna. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inPiraeus metro station is an interchange station between Athens metro Lines 1 and 3, near E6 gate of the port, from there it's a short walk to the Saronic Gulf ferries, hydrofoils and catamarans, or a free shuttle-bus ride to the ships sailing to Crete and the Dodecanses.
  • Get inCentral Cyclades ferries sail from just across the metro station.
  • Get inFrom the terminal, you could take a taxi, or you might find a city bus going toward the Metro terminal (ask in the terminal); otherwise, you face a walk with entrances to ferry and freight docks on the shore side, and various commercial and civic buildings on the other side of the very busy street.
  • Go nextFrom here flying dolphins and ships leave for the Saronic Gulf Islands (Gate Ε8), high speed catamarans and conventional ferries for the Aegean Islands (Gates E6, E7, E9, E10), ferries and cruise ships for Crete, Lesvos, Chios and the Dodecanese (Gates E3, E2 and Gate E1 respectively) and bigger vessels for Cyprus and the Middle East (Gates E11, E12).

From Wikivoyage: Piraeus, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    MykonosGR

    12 ways of moving, 23 sources

    160 km
  2. 02
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    190 km
  3. 03
    Mount AthosGR

    9 ways of moving, 21 sources

    253 km
  4. 04
    GökçeadaTR

    11 ways of moving, 39 sources

    312 km
  5. 05
    ThasosGR

    10 ways of moving, 17 sources

    328 km

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Next door to Drapetsóna

Drapetsóna is 10 km from Athens, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.