Can I stay overnight on Delos?

No. Delos has no hotels or residents, and the boats bring every visitor back the same day, with the last departures from Delos at 20:00 in midsummer and 18:00 by late October. If you want to see it in the best light, take the afternoon boat at 17:00 in summer (15:00 in late October) and come back on the last one.

Do I need to book Mykonos ferries in advance?

Only for peak dates. Pre-booking matters from mid-July to late August, around Pentecost, and above all around August 15, when the Tinos pilgrimage fills boats that stop at both islands. The rest of the year you can usually buy a day or two ahead. In autumn and winter, check with the operator on the day, because storms can cancel sailings, as they did from Piraeus, Rafina and Lavrio on October 2, 2026.

Is Mykonos worth it outside summer?

In April, May and October, yes, if Delos and the town matter more to you than beach clubs. The Delos boats run from April 1 to November 30, and the site opens 08:00 to 20:00 from April through August. From November to March most of Chora's restaurants and shops shut, buses to the airport stop, and in winter 2026-27 the airport closes on Thursdays, so it's a quiet, rainy island with few services.

Which port do Mykonos ferries use?

Most ferries from Piraeus and Rafina, and most inter-island boats, dock at the New Port at Tourlos, though check your ticket because some high-speed boats have used the Old Port, 2 kilometers north of Chora. The SeaBus runs every 30 minutes from April to October for €2.50, the bus runs hourly to the Old Port, and you can walk it in about 45 minutes along a road without a sidewalk. Delos boats leave from the Old Port in town, which the SeaBus also serves.

Is there free time at the Mykonos museums and Delos?

Delos and the Archaeological Museum are both free on March 6, April 18, May 18, the last weekend of September and October 28. Delos is also free on the first Sunday of each month from November to March, and the museum on the first and third Sundays. The boat still costs €25.

Mykonos Travel Guide

Updated October 2026

BootsnAll Scorecard

4.8 / 10

Mykonos scores low on value and timing because the island is priced for its peak and empties in winter, but Delos, a compact town and a usable summer bus network make it work for a short, well-timed stop.

Value: 3; Near the 2 anchor, with one hostel on Hostelworld charging about $31 for a dorm bed even in October and sunbeds at Psarou starting at €25, though €1 to €3 bus rides and the €45 Delos day keep it off the floor.
Getting around: 6; Above the 5 anchor because KTEL buses run every 30 to 60 minutes in season from Fabrika and the Old Port to the south-coast beaches, Ano Mera and the airport, but the north coast needs a car and the island has only about 30 taxis.
Crowds and timing: 3; Close to 2, since the airport handled 426,229 passengers in August 2026 against 6,988 in December 2025, July and August are the meltemi months, and much of the island shuts between November and April.
Safety and hassle: 6.5; Between 5 and 8, with little crime against visitors but real road risk on quads and narrow roads, long taxi queues, padded bills on Matogianni Street and only a health center, so serious injuries go to Athens by air.
Food and drink: 5.5; Just above 5, because kopanisti cheese, Kiki's grill at Agios Sostis and the Ano Mera tavernas are excellent, but the waterfront and beach-club eating is overpriced and easy to fall into.
Indie fit: 5; At the 5 anchor, since Delos, the buses and Ano Mera are easy to do alone, but the island's money runs through villas, beach clubs and cruise shore excursions, and locals are outnumbered for half the year.

Editorial scores, 1 to 10, against the same written anchors for every city. Half points allowed. The overall is the plain average of the six.

Overview and Things to Consider

Mykonos is a granite island of 85.5 square kilometers with no rivers, a top point of 341 meters and a wind problem that the islanders turned into a brand. Its 2021 census counted 10,704 people, most of them in Chora, the white port town everyone means when they say Mykonos. The airport, run by Fraport Greece, handled 1,581,742 passengers in 2025, and cruise ships add a second crowd on top of that. The water you shower in partly comes out of reverse-osmosis plants, which turn about 4,500 cubic meters of seawater into fresh water a day.

You'll love Mykonos if you want a party island with real architecture under it, a gay scene with decades of history, or a base for Delos. You'll hate it if you came to Greece for cheap rooms, empty beaches and village tavernas where nobody has a card machine. July and August bring loud beach clubs at Paradise and Super Paradise, cruise passengers shoulder to shoulder in Little Venice at sunset, and a taxi queue in Manto Square that can run for hours.

The 2026 moment is a busier, pricier version of the same island. Air traffic is running 6.6 percent ahead of 2025 for January to August, with August alone at 426,229 passengers. Greece now charges each cruise passenger €20 to step ashore here in summer, the highest rate in the country alongside Santorini, and every hotel night carries a climate resilience fee. The island's planning office was sealed by prosecutors in September 2026 over a backlog of unauthorized-construction cases, which tells you how the building boom has gone.

The overrated part is the sunset in Little Venice from a cocktail bar, which you share with every cruise passenger in port. Watch it from the Kato Mili windmills or from the Delos boat coming back instead. The underrated part is everything ten minutes from the harbor, especially Ano Mera, the island's only inland village.

How Mykonos Got Here

Mykonos has always lived off its neighbor. Delos, 2 kilometers away, was the most sacred island in the Greek world as the birthplace of Apollo and Artemis, and after the Persian Wars it hosted the Delian League, whose treasury sat there from 478 BC until Pericles moved it to Athens in 454 BC. In 426 BC the Athenians purified Delos by moving every grave to Rheneia next door and banning births and deaths on the sacred island. Rome made Delos a free port in 166 BC, and by about 90 BC some 30,000 people from across the Mediterranean lived on an island 5 kilometers long. Forces of Mithridates VI sacked it in 88 and 69 BC, and it never recovered. Mykonos, rocky and poor, supplied it.

After 1204 the Ghisi family held the island, and in 1207 they built a castle around the Kastro quarter, which is why the church next to its old gate is called Paraportiani. Venice ruled directly from 1390 until Barbarossa took the island for the Ottomans in 1537, and it stayed Ottoman until 1830. The captains' houses of Little Venice date from that era. In the War of Independence, Manto Mavrogenous spent her family fortune on ships and men, and she led the island's part in the revolt. Her statue stands in the square named for her, by the taxi rank.

Shipping declined in the late 19th century, and many islanders emigrated, a lot of them to the United States. Tourism arrived through archaeology, after the French School began digging on Delos in 1873. The jet set came in the 1960s, nude-beach Americans in the 1970s and gay travelers in the 1980s, and the island grew from 3,863 people in 1971 to 10,704 in 2021.

Getting There and Around

Most visitors come from Athens, and the ferry is the classic way. From Piraeus, Blue Star Ferries and Seajets run daily all year, taking 2 hours 40 minutes on a fast boat to 5 hours 50 minutes on a conventional ferry, with deck seats from €53 (about $60) and economy seats from €58 in 2026. From Rafina, the smaller port east of the city, Golden Star Ferries, Fast Ferries and Seajets run up to 10 crossings a day in summer, in 1 hour 50 minutes to 4 hours 40, from €35.50 (about $40). If you land at Athens airport, Rafina is the smart move, a 20-minute taxi from the terminal at €35 to €50. From the airport, the X96 bus runs to Piraeus. Most ferries land at the New Port at Tourlos, 2 kilometers north of Chora.

Flying takes about 35 minutes from Athens, and in summer charter and low-cost flights come in direct from much of Europe. Mykonos Airport (JMK) sits about 4 kilometers from Chora. KTEL buses run hourly between the airport and the Fabrika bus station from 09:00 to 22:00 on the 2026 summer timetable, and you can walk the 2.5 kilometers if your bag rolls. Watch the winter calendar, because Fraport is rebuilding the runway and the airport closes every Thursday from November 19, 2026 to March 18, 2027, except December 24 and 31 and January 7.

Entry follows Schengen rules. Citizens of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia stay visa-free for 90 days in any 180, and EU citizens just walk through. Your passport must be less than 10 years old on arrival and valid 3 months past your departure. The EU's Entry/Exit System has been running at every Schengen border since April 10, 2026, which means a fingerprint and photo scan on your first entry instead of a stamp, though Greece says it won't take biometrics from UK travelers. ETIAS, the €20 online pre-authorization, is now expected in 2027 and isn't required yet.

On the island, the KTEL bus network works from two terminals that are a 15- to 20-minute walk apart. Fabrika, at the top of town, serves Ornos, Agios Ioannis, Platys Gialos, Paraga, Paradise and the airport. The Old Port terminal serves the New Port, Agios Stefanos, Ano Mera, Elia, Kalo Livadi and Kalafatis. Fares are €1 to €3 by distance, bought from the driver or terminal booths. Cars aren't allowed into Chora. From the New Port, the Mykonos SeaBus runs every 30 minutes from April to October and takes you to the Old Port in about 12 minutes for €2.50. In summer, caiques from Platys Gialos and Ornos hop along the south-coast beaches.

Taxis are the weak link. Wikivoyage counts only about 30 on the whole island, gathered at the rank in Manto Square, with fixed fares posted on a board rather than meters, and the evening wait can run for an hour or more. Most hotels sell transfers, and booking one when you book the room is the cheapest way to dodge the queue at the port. If you rent anything, take a small car over a quad. A billionaire tech founder was airlifted to Athens after a quad crash in August 2025, and the island's roads are narrow, steep and busy.

What's Changed Since 2016

Traffic is up by half. The airport counted 1,017,539 passengers in 2016 and 1,581,742 in 2025, a rise of about 55 percent, and January to August 2026 ran another 6.6 percent ahead of 2025. Nearly all the growth is international and nearly all of it lands between May and October. Domestic passengers fell 9.7 percent in 2025, which looks a lot like Greeks being priced out of their own most famous island.

Cruise passengers pay. From July 21, 2025, Greece charges a per-passenger fee at every port of call, and Mykonos and Santorini sit in their own top band at €20 a head from June 1 to September 30, €12 in April, May and October and €4 from November to March, against €5, €3 and €1 at other islands. Cruise lines fold it into the fare.

Rooms cost more on paper. In 2025 Greece raised its per-night climate resilience fee and stretched it over a longer season. From April to October it is now €2 a night in one- and two-star hotels and rented rooms, €5 at three-star, €10 at four-star and €15 at five-star hotels and villas, and Mykonos has a lot of four- and five-star beds. The short-term rental version rose from €1.50 to €8 a night in summer.

Rules changed for visitors. Since April 10, 2026 the Entry/Exit System has replaced passport stamps at Schengen borders with biometric records, and ETIAS slipped again to 2027. In February 2024 Greece legalized same-sex marriage, the first Orthodox Christian majority country to do so, which matters on an island that built a chunk of its tourism around gay travelers.

Getting there has new gaps. The direct ferry from Çeşme on the Turkish coast no longer runs, and Ferryhopper now routes that trip through Chios. And from November 19, 2026 to March 18, 2027 the airport shuts every Thursday for runway reconstruction, so a winter visit depends more than ever on the ferries.

What the Usual Advice Gets Wrong

"Delos is closed on Mondays, so plan your visit for another day." That's old guidebook advice still repeated online. The Ministry of Culture lists no weekly closing day, only six holidays, and Delos Tours runs a 10:00 boat on Mondays in 2026 from April 1 to November 30.

"Book a guided Delos excursion from your cruise ship or hotel." The boat from the Old Port is €25 return and the site ticket is €20, so €45 gets you there and in. The 2026 half-day guided tour costs €79 with the entrance included, which makes sense if you want a guide but not if you just want to see the place.

"Mykonos is the Greek Ibiza, all clubs and celebrities." That's the south coast in July and August. Ano Mera has tavernas around a square and the 1542 monastery of Panagia Tourliani, and Fokos, Agios Sostis and Lia on the north and east coasts often have more locals than sunbeds.

"Taxis are easy to find, just grab one at the port." The island has only about 30 taxis, and the airport alone handled more than 1.2 million passengers between May and August 2026. Use the SeaBus (€2.50) from the New Port, the hourly airport bus, or book a hotel transfer in advance.

"You can hop over from Turkey on the Çeşme ferry." Direct Çeşme to Mykonos sailings have stopped, and Ferryhopper now routes the trip via Chios.

"Little Venice is the place to watch the sunset." It is if you enjoy a crowd and cocktail prices to match. The Kato Mili windmills on the ridge above it give a wider view for free, and the late-afternoon boat back from Delos puts you on the water as the light goes.

Ideas to Consider for Your Visit

Have you thought about giving Delos a full morning instead of a rushed excursion? Take the first boat from the Old Port at 10:00 with Delos Tours, which takes 30 minutes and costs €25 return, and come back on the 13:30, or the 15:00 from Tuesday to Sunday, since tickets work on any of the joint boats. Buy the €20 ticket at the site entrance. Walk the Sacred Way to the Terrace of the Lions, where seven of the original marble lions remain, then the theater and the merchants' houses with their mosaic floors, and finish in the museum. Swimming off Delos isn't allowed, and water comes only from vending machines at the port and the museum, so bring a hat and a bottle.

Ride the Old Port bus to Ano Mera, about 8 kilometers inland, every 30 minutes or so in season. The monastery of Panagia Tourliani was founded in 1542, and the square around it is lined with tavernas where Mykonians eat. Artisti Prozymi on the main square is a bakery with a full menu priced low for Mykonos. Fokos beach is signposted from Ano Mera, and its taverna cooks one dish a day plus grilled meat and fish and a long list of salads.

If food is your priority, order kopanisti, the spicy PDO cheese of Mykonos and its neighbors, kneaded three or four times while it ripens. Locals eat it in mostra, rusk with chopped tomato and olive oil, with ouzo. Louza, the island's cured pork, is the other thing to ask for. In Chora, To Ma'ereio on Kalogera Street, behind the Alpha Bank on Matogianni, serves Mykonian dishes in a tiny room that's almost always full. Kiki's, above Agios Sostis beach, has room for about two dozen people, cooks on an outdoor grill and closes before dusk because there's no electricity.

Walk Chora in the morning before the boats arrive. Start at Paraportiani, five churches stacked into one white mass, begun in the 15th century, then the Kastro quarter above Little Venice, the Tria Pigadia wells dug in 1722, and Lena's House, a 19th-century home kept as it was. The Aegean Maritime Museum next door explains why a rocky island got rich. The Archaeological Museum (€5, closed Tuesdays) holds grave statues and funerary urns from Rheneia, the island that took Delos's dead, and the Mykonos vase, made on Tinos and decorated with scenes from the fall of Troy.

Take a day on Tinos, 15 to 35 minutes away by ferry. It's the island Greeks go to for the church of Panagia Evangelistria, where some pilgrims crawl from the harbor to the icon on August 15, and for about 80 windmills, 1,000 carved dovecotes and 50 lived-in villages. Avoid August 15, when the pilgrimage fills every boat.

In summer, rent a car for one day and do the north and east. Agios Sostis, on Panormos Bay, has no sunbeds and no hotels and needs your own transport, with Kiki's up the hill. Kalafati, on six Old Port buses a day, is the windsurfers' beach. Armenistis lighthouse, still working, stands 6.5 kilometers from Chora. On the south coast, Agios Ioannis, where Shirley Valentine was filmed, looks straight at Delos and Rheneia and is on the Fabrika bus line.

The Part Most Guides Miss

Most guides treat Delos as a half-day add-on to a beach holiday. It's the other way around. Delos is the reason to come, a UNESCO site since 1990 that preserves an entire Hellenistic port town, with houses, mosaics, markets and temples to Egyptian, Syrian and Roman gods alongside Apollo's sanctuary, all on an island nobody lives on. The Ministry of Culture describes it as a place where almost every Mediterranean people lived side by side around 90 BC. From Mykonos you can see it from Agios Ioannis beach, and in October the site opens 08:00 to 18:30 or 18:00, with the last Delos Tours boat back leaving Delos at 18:30 until October 15 and 18:00 after that.

Where to Base Yourself

Chora (Mykonos Town). The obvious base and the right one for a first visit without a car. Both bus terminals, the Delos boats, the SeaBus and nearly every restaurant are here, and you can walk everything. The catch is noise, cruise-day crowds by the Old Port and prices for anything with a sea view. The island's only hostel on Hostelworld, Mycocoon, is about 400 meters from the center.

Ornos and Agios Ioannis. Ornos is 3.5 kilometers south of Chora on a sheltered bay, with a supermarket, bakery and pharmacy, and buses from Fabrika every 30 minutes in season, the last at 00:30. Agios Ioannis, past it, is quieter and faces Delos. They suit families and couples who want a beach every day and town at night. The catch is that this side is fully built up, and you'll pay resort prices.

Platys Gialos and Psarou. Platys Gialos is the busy family beach where the caiques to Paraga, Paradise, Super Paradise, Agrari and Elia leave, 15 minutes from Chora by frequent bus. Psarou next door is the upscale one, home of Nammos, where sunbeds start at €25. Stay here if beach-hopping by boat is the plan. The catch is that it's a resort strip with little of the island's own life.

Ano Mera. The only inland village, about 8 kilometers east of Chora, built around a square of tavernas and the Tourliani monastery. It suits travelers with a car who want the north-coast beaches nearby and evenings among Mykonians instead of cruise passengers. The catch is the bus, which stops around 22:00, so nights in town mean a car or a taxi you might not find.

Realities to Be Aware Of

Money is the first reality. Summer here has no real budget tier. A frugal day built on the one hostel dorm (about €27, or $31, in October), buses at €1 to €3, gyros and souvlaki from the shops in town, and one paid sight lands around €60 to €80 on our math. Add a €45 Delos day and a €25 sunbed and you're past €100 without a sit-down dinner. Add the climate resilience fee to every quote, from €2 a night in a rented room to €15 at a five-star hotel.

Crime against visitors is low, and the real risk is the roads. When a tech founder crashed a quad in August 2025, he went from the island's health center to Athens by medical aircraft, because serious cases leave the island, which is the case for travel insurance with air evacuation. Wikivoyage warns about one restaurant on Matogianni Street known for overcharging, so check bills there and anywhere with a waterfront view. Beach vendors with fake bags leave after one firm no.

Mykonos is one of Europe's most established gay destinations, with Elia and Super Paradise the beaches with the biggest gay crowds, and Greece has recognized same-sex marriage since February 2024. Nudity is tolerated at Paraga's far end, the right side of Super Paradise and Agios Sostis. The small beach between Elia and Agrari is the one Wikivoyage calls the island's only true gay beach. At night the gay clubs, Jackie O' and Babylon among them, sit side by side on the Paraportiani waterfront, and the scene is more polished than rowdy.

The wind runs the island. The meltemi blows hard from the north in July and August, which keeps the heat down and makes the north-coast beaches rough, and it's why the best swimming is on the south coast. Autumn storms are a different matter. On October 2, 2026, gale-force winds of up to 10 Beaufort shut the ports of Rafina and Piraeus for most of the day. Leave a spare day before any flight home from Athens.

What things cost in Mykonos

Prices checked October 2026. Each links to where we read it.

Item	Price	Source
Ferry, Piraeus to Mykonos	From €53 (about $60) deck seat, €58 economy seat	Ferryhopper, Oct 2026
Ferry, Rafina to Mykonos	From €35.50 (about $40)	Ferryhopper, Oct 2026
Boat to Delos and back	€25 (about $28) return, 30 minutes each way	Delos Tours, 2026 schedule
Delos archaeological site and museum	€20 (about $22) per person	Delos Tours, 2026 tour terms
Hostel dorm bed, Mycocoon (the island's only hostel listing)	From about $31 (€27) a night	Hostelworld, Oct 2026
KTEL island bus, single ride	€1-3 (about $1-3) by distance	Mykonos Beaches Guide, Sept 2026
SeaBus, New Port to Chora	€2.50 (about $2.80)	Mykonos SeaBus, 2026
Sunbeds at Psarou beach	From €25 (about $28)	Mykonos Beaches Guide, 2026
Climate resilience fee, April to October	€2-15 (about $2-17) per room per night by hotel class	Keep Talking Greece, Sept 2024

Dollar figures use the European Central Bank reference rate of October 2, 2026, about $1.12 to €1.

If Mykonos Is Part of a Longer Trip

Mykonos sits in the middle of the Cyclades ferry web, so it slots into an island-hopping route easily. Tinos is 15 to 35 minutes away with daily boats all year, and Syros has daily sailings too. Naxos is 35 minutes to 1 hour 25 minutes by Golden Star, Fast Ferries or Seajets from March to November, with fares from €30, and Paros has boats more than once a day in season. A sensible loop from Athens runs Rafina, Tinos, Mykonos, Naxos and Paros, then back to Piraeus, without doubling back once.

For a longer Greece trip, Athens is the hub for everything beyond the Cyclades, so plan to pass back through it. Turkey is closer than it looks on a map, but the direct boat from Çeşme, near Izmir, no longer runs, so the practical crossing is Mykonos to Chios by ferry, then Chios to Çeşme, and from there north to Istanbul. If you're stringing Mykonos into a multi-country route, AirTreks can build an itinerary that flies into Athens and out of Istanbul so you never retrace your steps.

Yearly Things to Consider

The season is a cliff. The airport handled 426,229 passengers in August 2026 and 6,988 in December 2025, a sixty-fold swing, and most restaurants and shops close for renovation until May. Ferries thin out after October, and in winter 2026-27 the airport closes on Thursdays. The meltemi wind blows hardest in July and August, which keeps highs around 82°F (28°C) but whips up the north coast. Greek holidaymakers pile in around Pentecost in late May or early June and around August 15, when the Tinos pilgrimage fills the boats.

The counterintuitive advice is to come in late May, early June or the second half of September. The buses and Delos boats still run full schedules, the beach bars are open, and you skip the August peak and its prices. October is a gamble worth taking for Delos alone, with the site open until 18:00 or 18:30 and highs of 72°F (22°C), but expect closed beach bars and the risk of a storm day at the ports.

Mykonos month by month

Month	Temp	Rainfall	Season	Notes
January	58°F (15°C)	2.6 in	Low	Wettest month. Most hotels and restaurants closed, fewer ferries.
February	59°F (15°C)	2.3 in	Low	Quiet locals' island. Delos free on the first Sunday.
March	61°F (16°C)	1.4 in	Low	Shops start renovating. Free Delos on the first Sunday.
April	66°F (19°C)	0.7 in	Shoulder	Delos boats and SeaBus restart April 1. Shops reopen.
May	73°F (23°C)	0.2 in	Shoulder	Good value window. Buses go to summer timetables mid-May.
June	79°F (26°C)	0.1 in	High	Cruise fee rises to €20. Pentecost crowds some years.
July	82°F (28°C)	0.0 in	High	Meltemi wind, peak clubs, peak prices.
August	82°F (28°C)	0.1 in	High	Busiest month. Book ferries early around August 15.
September	78°F (26°C)	0.4 in	High	Warm sea, slightly thinner crowds after mid-month.
October	72°F (22°C)	1.0 in	Shoulder	Season winds down. Storms can halt ferries.
November	67°F (19°C)	1.4 in	Low	Delos open 08:00-16:00. Airport closes Thursdays from Nov 19.
December	61°F (16°C)	2.2 in	Low	Shuttered town, no airport buses, ferries only.

Ideas for Itineraries

3 Days in Mykonos

Arrive from Rafina on a morning boat and take the SeaBus into Chora. Spend the afternoon on foot, Paraportiani, the Kastro quarter, the Tria Pigadia and Lena's House, and watch the sunset from the Kato Mili windmills. Day two is Delos, out on the 10:00 boat and back on the 13:30, then the Fabrika bus to Agios Ioannis for a late swim facing the island you just walked. Day three, ride the Old Port bus to Ano Mera for the Tourliani monastery and lunch on the square, then a south-coast beach by bus from Fabrika.

5 Days in Mykonos

Do the three-day plan, then rent a small car for day four and drive the north and east. Start at Agios Sostis with lunch at Kiki's before it closes at dusk, then on to Fokos for a swim, and Armenistis lighthouse for the late light. On day five, start at the Archaeological Museum (09:00 to 16:00, closed Tuesdays), then take the caique from Platys Gialos along the south coast, getting off at Paraga or Agrari rather than the club beaches, and end with a Mykonian dinner at To Ma'ereio.

1 Week in Mykonos

Split the week. Give Mykonos four nights on the five-day plan minus one beach day, then take the short ferry to Tinos for three nights. Tinos has the Panagia Evangelistria church, about 50 lived-in villages, the Venetian ruins on Exomvourgo and much lower room prices. Ferries back to Rafina leave from Tinos too, so you end the week closer to Athens airport without another stop on Mykonos.

2 Weeks or More in Mykonos

Two weeks on Mykonos alone is too long for most people and too expensive for nearly everyone. Use it as the center of a Cyclades loop instead, with three nights each on Tinos, Mykonos, Naxos and Paros and a night in Rafina at either end. If you do want to settle in, come in May or late September, rent a room in Ano Mera or Ornos by the week, and build days around Delos visits, the Archaeological Museum, walks out to Armenistis and ferry day trips to Tinos and Syros.

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