It is situated on the seafront (at the beginning of Trion Navarchon street), opposite the temple of Saint Andrew.

The first wooden lighthouse of Patras was built in the dock of Agios Nikolaos in 1858 and was destroyed by a storm in 1865.

[4] It was demolished in 1972 in the period of the military junta during the port's modernization.

In 1999 the coastal zone council decided to rebuild the lighthouse in a southern location near Saint Andrew's cathedral.

The reconstructed Patras lighthouse does not have a maritime usage but is one of the city's symbols and main sights.