Kissamos (Greek: Κίσσαμος) is a town and a municipality in the west of the island of Crete, Greece.

It is part of the Chania regional unit and of the former Kissamos Province which covers the northwest corner of the island.

[3] The Peutinger Table distinguishes two port towns in Crete called Cisamus,[4] Modern Kissamos (at 35°29′38″N 23°39′25″E) is much further west than where Aptera is now placed (at 35°27′46″N 24°8′31″E).

It was excluded already by Pashley in 1837 as being, of the two ancient maritime Cretan cities named Kisamos, the one associated with Aptera.

[7][8] Ancient Cisamus became a Christian bishopric, a suffragan of the metropolitan see of Gortyna, the capital of the Roman province of Crete.