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You have three options: the passenger ferry from Kish to Charak, a flight from Kish airport, or, if you are taking a car, the landing craft from Kish to Charak or Aftab. Ferry tickets are sold only on the official Kish Ports portal; AzKish is not a ticket seller.
There are two separate services between Kish and Charak: a passenger ferry for people and a landing craft for cars. Tickets for both are sold only on the official Kish Ports portal; AzKish is not a ticket seller. Times change daily, so check the schedule for your date.
Aftab is one of the two car-ferry ports for Kish (the other is Charak). Landing-craft tickets are sold only on the official Kish Ports portal. A secondary source (1404 / 2025-26) puts the crossing at about 1.5 hours; check the portal for today's schedule and price.
For a short trip, renting on Kish is usually simpler; bringing your own car makes sense when you carry cargo or special equipment. The round-trip landing-craft fare alone was several million toman (1404 reference rate, secondary), and the car's stay on the island is capped. Use the cost estimator for your own numbers.
Renting on Kish is easy if you settle four things before signing: documents, the deposit amount and return time, the insurance level and whether the company is licensed. Terms differ by company, so get everything in the written contract. Figures here are market reports (2026-09-11), not an official tariff.
Junctions on Kish end in roundabouts and cameras are active; honking, reversing, a dirty car and driving off paved roads can be fined (secondary source). Fines on a rental car usually must be settled on the island. The rule for Kish-plate cars leaving Hormozgan changed several times in 1405; always check the current position.
Check live arrivals and departures on Kish airport's official site. Flight service to Kish has fluctuated, so recheck your own flight on the day. To reach town you can rent a car; ask in writing before booking whether airport pickup is possible.
From the airport you can cover six stops in half a day with about 35 km and 55 minutes of driving: the Greek Ship, the anthropology museum, the Panj Badgir cistern, Harireh and the Kariz. Four more (City Park, French Market, Dolphin Park and the Marina) make a full day. Times are computed without traffic.
Charak is one of the two coastal ports for Kish ferries; both the car landing craft and the passenger ferry leave from it. It is about 278 km (about 3 h 43 min without traffic) from Bandar Abbas and about 524 km (about 6 h 51 min) from Shiraz. Tickets are sold only on the official Kish Ports portal; AzKish is not a ticket seller.
Aftab, next to Charak, is one of two coastal origins for the car landing craft to Kish. Our data shows no separate passenger ferry from Aftab. The car must be at reception 30 minutes before departure, personal and plate details must match the ticket, and tickets are sold only on the official Kish Ports portal.
The vehicle entry and exit pier on Kish is about 2 km from the town centre on the map. Without a car you continue by taxi (white phone taxi, yellow line taxi, or ride-hailing); with a car you clear formalities and tolls at the port reception gate. If you want a car on the island you can rent one through Kish Rent Car.
The official portal has only a few short rules: valid ID, passengers one hour and cars 30 minutes before departure, and details matching the ticket. Rules on live animals, gas appliances and children are quoted by a secondary source from port advisories. We found no luggage weight limit or child fare; ask the official portal.
Yes. Per the official portal trips run only when weather allows and one should be patient when the sea turns stormy. The only definitive source is Kish Ports: the official portal and its official channel on the Bale messenger. We have no citable data on a wind season and give no guessed figure.
Kish has white phone taxis, yellow line taxis, minibuses and the Snapp and Tapsi apps. Without a car it works if your destinations are few and close; if you want several distant sights in a day or more freedom, a rental is easier. Fares come from a secondary source and date from 1404.
We found no citable official source for Kish petrol prices or parking rates, so we give no figure. Sourced numbers: a reference round-trip car-ferry fare of about 4,650,000 toman from Charak and 4,200,000 from Aftab (secondary, 1404), a 10-day permitted car stay and 100,000 toman per extra day (secondary). The official portal does not state the entry toll.
In our data the overland leg starts from the coast: a ferry from Kish to Charak (or the landing craft to Charak or Aftab), then the road. From Charak to central Bandar Abbas is about 278 km and about 223 minutes without traffic. We have not computed Bandar Lengeh and do not guess. A direct ferry from Kish to Bandar Abbas or Bandar Lengeh is not in our sources; check the official portal.
Sajad Shayanfar
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