Sporades · Greece

Round Trips from Volos and the Sporades


Here is where tracked sailing boats went on round trips from the bases in Volos and the Sporades during the complete 2025 season. This is a record of past trips, not a guide to future trips.

Observed Positions

Heat map of observed hourly positions on round trips from Volos and the Sporades. Colour is relative within this map.
Observed hourly positions · one observed fix per boat-hour; missing hours omitted; colour is relative within this view.

Top Overnight Stops

  1. Skopelos 96%
  2. Skiathos 67%
  3. Alonissos 31%
  4. Paleo Trikeri 11%
  5. Kyra Panagia 9%
  6. Peristera 7%
  7. Amaliapoli 3%
  8. Agia Kyriaki 3%

The percentage is the share of trips that spent at least one night there.

Week Shapes

Each shape names the three places where a trip spent the most nights, so other stops may be left out. The percentage is the share of round trips from this area with at least four known nights away from base that had that shape.

  • 1. Skiathos, Skopelos, Alonissos 28% of these trips
  • 2. Skiathos, Skopelos 19% of these trips
  • 3. Skopelos, Alonissos 9% of these trips

First Nights

Skopelos41%
Skiathos23%
Paleo Trikeri17%
Elsewhere19%

Last Nights

Skopelos39%
Skiathos38%
Paleo Trikeri4%
Elsewhere19%

Shares are of trips whose first or last night was recorded, respectively.

Furthest From Base

  1. under 20 nm 11%
  2. 20 to 40 nm 54%
  3. over 40 nm 35%

The furthest point reached on each trip, measured in a straight line from base in nautical miles. This is not the distance sailed.

Following Nights

For each favourite stop, this shows where boats spent the following night, as a share of those following nights.

After Skopelos
Skiathos21%
Alonissos13%
Peristera2%
Agia Kyriaki1%
Platania1%
Stayed Another Night41%
Back to Base17%
Other Places4%
After Skiathos
Skopelos41%
Alonissos4%
Paleo Trikeri2%
Stayed Another Night17%
Back to Base29%
Other Places7%
After Alonissos
Skopelos56%
Kyra Panagia7%
Skiathos7%
Peristera5%
Stayed Another Night16%
Back to Base7%
How We Worked This Out

We used AIS positions bought from Datalastic for the 2025 season, covering sailing yachts and catamarans based in the area. A trip is the nights away between two nights at base, so only round trips are included. A place is shown only when enough different boats went there, and no single boat can be picked out. Place names and coastline come from OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aggregated AIS ship-tracking data for the sailing area. No individual boat is shown, and these patterns do not predict future routes.

© OpenStreetMap contributors

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