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Pérama

Perama is a coastal town and a suburb of Piraeus.

Pérama
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The place

Perama is a coastal town and a suburb of Piraeus. It belongs to the Piraeus regional unit and is the southwestern limit of Athens-Piraeus urban area. It lies on the southwest edge of the Aegaleo mountains, on the Saronic Gulf coast. It is 8 km northwest of Piraeus, and 14 km west of the center of Athens. The municipality has an area of 14.729 km2. It forms the western terminus of the Port of Piraeus, and there is also a passenger port that provides ferry services to Salamis Island.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Pérama

Airports
Athens Eleftherios Venizelos (ATH), 33 km · Santorini (JTR), 243 km · Chania (CHQ), 276 km
  • Santorini Island → Pérama
    241 km · quickest by ferry, 10h 5m · €61–181
  • Souda → Pérama
    59 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · €9–12
  • Thessaloniki → Pérama
    302 km · quickest by air, 5h 24m · €130–200
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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.

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No local-transport research exists yet for Pérama

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 Pérama. 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

    165 km
  2. 02
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    196 km
  3. 03
    Mount AthosGR

    9 ways of moving, 21 sources

    252 km
  4. 04
    GökçeadaTR

    11 ways of moving, 39 sources

    313 km
  5. 05
    ThasosGR

    10 ways of moving, 17 sources

    327 km

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Next door to Pérama

Pérama is 14 km from Athens, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.