Day Trips
From Santorini

Santorini is more than the caldera and the sunset. The island has volcanic beaches, ancient ruins, cliff-top villages, w...

Two days is tight for Santorini but enough to hit the highlights: the caldera hike, the Oia sunset, a volcano or caldera...

Three days is the sweet spot for Santorini: enough to hike the caldera, cruise past the volcano, explore the villages, s...

Four days is the luxury stay on Santorini. You get the caldera hike, the volcano cruise, Akrotiri, the beaches, the wine...

Santorini has a reputation as one of Greece's most expensive islands, and it's not entirely undeserved. But the caldera ...

Santorini is small enough to drive across in 30 minutes but awkward enough that getting around requires a plan. The publ...

The best time to visit Santorini is late September: the sea is still summer-warm, the air has cooled to the mid-20s Cels...

Santorini is not the most obvious family destination in Greece: it's hilly, it's crowded in summer, and the caldera vill...

Santorini's best beaches are Perissa and Perivolos for a proper black-sand beach day, Kamari for resort facilities and a...

Perissa is the beach most visitors to Santorini should head to first: a 4 km stretch of jet-black volcanic sand backed b...

Kamari is Santorini's most organised beach resort: a long promenade of restaurants and bars, a Blue Flag pebble-and-sand...

Santorini's most photographed beach is a dramatic cove of rust-red volcanic cliffs and dark pebbles, wedged into the sou...

Perivolos is Santorini's longest beach, its most organised, and the one with the best beach club scene on the island: fi...

Vlychada is the most visually dramatic beach on Santorini and one of the quietest: a long black-sand beach backed by scu...

Santorini's two most popular beaches sit on opposite sides of the same volcanic mountain, separated by Mesa Vouno. Both ...

White Beach is Santorini's most remote and least crowded beach: a small, secluded cove backed by pale white limestone cl...

Monolithos is Santorini's most family-friendly beach: shallow water, fine black sand, a playground, sports courts, and a...

Oia is the white-and-blue village on every Santorini postcard: a maze of cave houses, blue-domed churches, and art galle...

Imerovigli sits at the highest point of the caldera rim, about 2 km north of Fira on the walking path towards Oia. It ha...

Perched on the highest point of Santorini, with 360-degree views that stretch from the caldera to the open Aegean, Pyrgo...

Megalochori is Santorini's most traditional village and the centre of the island's winemaking heritage: a compact labyri...

Emporio is Santorini's biggest village and one of its least-visited treasures: a 15th-century Venetian fortress with a s...

The caldera cruise is one of the most popular things to do on Santorini, and it is worth every euro: sailing inside a fl...

A 20-minute boat ride from Fira's old port drops you on Nea Kameni, a barren volcanic island at the centre of the calder...

Santorini's hot springs are strange, memorable, and unlike any swim you've had before. A short boat ride from Fira bring...

The single best thing you can do on Santorini that costs nothing is a 10 km trail along the caldera rim connecting Fira ...

Forget fighting for space at the Oia castle. The best sunset on Santorini is from the deck of a catamaran, with a glass ...

Santorini produces some of Greece's most distinctive wines from vines trained flat against the volcanic soil in basket-s...

Santo Wines sits on the caldera rim near Pyrgos with a terrace view that makes it impossible to focus on what's in your ...

Santorini's food scene runs on volcanic soil, a few ingredients you won't find anywhere else, and tavernas that haven't ...

A hands-on cooking class in a Santorini cave house or family farm is one of the best half-days on the island: you learn ...

Naxos is everything Santorini isn't: wide sandy beaches, green mountains, ancient temples, and a Venetian old town that ...

Paros is the quintessential Cycladic island: whitewashed villages with blue shutters, golden sandy beaches, a fishing ha...

Ios is 35 minutes by fast ferry from Santorini, close enough for a comfortable day trip to an island with some of the be...

Mykonos is about 2 hours by fast ferry from Santorini, and the idea of visiting both famous islands in one trip is tempt...

Crete is about 2 hours south of Santorini by fast ferry, and it's an entirely different world: ancient palaces, proper c...

Folegandros is one of those islands people describe as "what the Cyclades used to be like": a cliffside village with no ...

Anafi is Santorini's closest neighbour to the east: a volcanic island with empty beaches, one village, and almost no tou...

Directly across the caldera from Santorini, close enough to see every detail of its cliff-face villages, Thirassia is wh...

Akrotiri is the most important archaeological site on Santorini and one of the best-preserved prehistoric settlements in...

Perched 370 metres above the sea on the ridge of Mesa Vouno, Ancient Thera is an archaeological site spanning Dorian, He...

An ATV (quad bike) is the most popular way to explore Santorini independently. Renting one costs from around 15 EUR per ...

A sea kayak puts you at water level inside the caldera, looking up at 300-metre cliffs that most people only see from th...

Santorini's volcanic caldera isn't just dramatic from the surface. Underwater, the island offers lava formations, caves,...

Santorini has no cruise berth. Every passenger arrives by tender, and most land at the Old Port directly below Fira, whe...