Greece vs Croatia: How Old Is the Charter Fleet, and What Does a Newer Yacht Cost per Week?

Greece and Croatia are the largest of the six markets compared here, by number of listings, with 25,571 and 25,248 charter listings respectively. We compared the build years and the last recorded weekly rate for those listings, as of a snapshot taken on 6 October 2026. The headline: both fleets have a median build year of 2019, yet 21.4% of Greek listings date from before 2010 against 10.8% in Croatia. The median week costs €2,850 in Greece and €1,884 in Croatia.

How old is the fleet

Greece and Croatia together account for 50,819 of the 106,871 charter listings across these six countries. Their shares of boats built in 2020 or later are almost identical: 46.7% and 46.9%. The gap is at the other end of the age range. The share of pre-2010 boats in Greece, 21.4%, is roughly twice the Croatian figure of 10.8%. Italy sits close to Greece on both measures, with 47.2% built in 2020 or later and 23.4% built before 2010. France and Turkey have the oldest listings in the table, with median build years of 2014 and 2013 and pre-2010 shares of 38.0% and 38.4%. On price, the Greek median week of €2,850 is 51% above the Croatian €1,884. Croatia is the cheapest market here after France at €1,866, while Turkey is the most expensive at €5,304. The wider market figures are in our charter market overview, which calculates weekly rates by a different method, converting all currencies into EUR, so its price levels differ from the EUR-only medians here.

Greece and Croatia by boat type

Catamarans are the youngest segment in both countries. The median Greek catamaran was built in 2021, the median Croatian one in 2022, and 67.2% and 67.5% of them date from 2020 or later. Fewer than 4% of catamarans in either country were built before 2010. Sailing yachts make up almost half of each fleet: 11,659 of 24,073 dated listings in Greece (48.4%) and 11,407 of 23,856 in Croatia (47.8%). Here the age gap is clear. The median Greek sailing yacht was built in 2018 and 22.8% of them predate 2010; in Croatia the median is 2019 and the pre-2010 share is 9.3%. Gulets and mega yachts are the oldest groups on both sides. Greek gulets have a median build year of 1999 with 79.4% built before 2010, and Greek mega yachts a median of 2005 with 76.2% pre-2010. Croatian gulets and mega yachts are newer, with medians of 2005 and 2016, but still carry pre-2010 shares of 69.1% and 37.1%. Weekly prices are higher in Greece in the three largest types: sailing yachts, catamarans and yachts. A sailing yacht week has a median of €2,118 in Greece against €1,452 in Croatia, 46% more. A catamaran week is €4,350 against €2,772, 57% more, and a yacht week is €3,348 against €2,190, 53% more. Mega yachts and gulets run the other way: the median mega yacht week is €31,278 in Greece against €47,826 in Croatia, and a gulet week €13,356 against €15,948. Our fleet age by brand report shows how build years break down by manufacturer across the whole marketplace.

What a week on a newer yacht costs

A newer boat does not always mean a much higher weekly rate. In Croatia, a sailing yacht built in 2020 or later has a median week of €1,620 against €1,254 for one built before 2010, a difference of 29%. The two middle age groups sit close together at €1,338 and €1,370. In Greece the same comparison for sailing yachts is €2,454 against €2,076, or 18% more for the newest group. The cheapest Greek sailing yachts by median are not the oldest but those built in 2010–2014, at €1,707 per week. For Greek catamarans the newest and oldest groups are priced almost the same: €4,530 for 2020 or later against €4,632 for pre-2010, about 2% less, although across the four age groups the medians range from €3,822 to €4,632. The 2015–2019 group is lowest at €3,822. Croatian catamarans stand out by the size of the gap. Each age group is priced above the previous one, from €1,434 for pre-2010 (n = 43, the smallest group in the table) to €1,950, €2,544 and €3,078, so the newest group costs 115% more than the oldest, against 29% for Croatian sailing yachts. The newest group is 21% above the 2015–2019 group. The country gap holds within age groups too. For sailing yachts built in 2020 or later, the Greek median of €2,454 is 51% above the Croatian €1,620; for pre-2010 sailing yachts it is 66% above. Listings for the main Greek bases are on our Athens and Mykonos pages; for Croatia, see Split and Dubrovnik.

Methodology and limitations

The figures are a snapshot of GetBoat listings taken on 6 October 2026 at 13:23 UTC. The pool is every listing visible on GetBoat under the site's public listing rules, excluding four third-party platforms. A listing counts as a charter listing when it has its own weekly rate recorded. Build years outside 1950–2027 are excluded from the age figures, and a listing without a build year is counted in the total but not in the age figures. The weekly price is the last weekly rate recorded for the listing, in EUR only. Rates in other currencies are not included, and we do not distinguish between high and low season. Medians are shown only where at least 10 listings carry a price, and every median in this article has at least 30. All prices are asking rates on the marketplace: they are not bookings, not completed charters and not what clients paid. A listing's country is the country of the base where it is advertised on GetBoat, and the build year is the year stated in the listing. No individual boats or models are identified.