Alicante to Tarifa ferry

Ferries from Alicante to Tarifa start at €47.63 and take 19h 9m at their fastest.

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The Ferries from Alicante to Tarifa starts at €47.63 and takes 19h 9m door to door, run by 1 operator over 549 km, with around 2 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 21 days before departure.

Checked 15 September 2026Priced for 6 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 19h 9mDoor to door
  • 16h 36mMoving
  • €47.63 to €99.89From
  • 07:30 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 2Per day
  • 63.3 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on 6 October 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€47.63 to €99.89 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Worked out from this corridor rather than held for anybody. The operator sets the price on the day.

Fares by date

What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.

Typical fares

  1. about €61.94Wed16
  2. about €99.89Thu17
  3. about €67.99Fri18
  4. about €74.59Sat19
  5. about €69.08Sun20
  6. about €58.63Mon21
  7. about €50.93Tue22
  8. about €48.18Wed23
  9. about €65.78Thu24
  10. about €64.14Fri25
  11. about €61.39Sat26
  12. about €49.83Sun27
  13. about €47.63Mon28
  14. about €48.18Tue29

Based on what this route has cost recently. The operator sets the price on the day, and the live fare is confirmed when you book.

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 6 October 2026

Cheapest€37.73
  1. Baleària B561207:3014h 4m21:34ALICANTEFerry to Marbella
  2. Baleària B707722:582h 54m01:52Ferry to MarbellaTARIFA

Changes at Marbella, with 84 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 19h 52mCO2 63.4 kgChanges 1Changeable for a fee

Carriers

Ferry operators

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorFromFastestTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
BaleàriaNoneNone33 km/hChangeableBar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Toilets
  • Baleària

The ferry gets you into Tarifa. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.

A hotel room

A room in Tarifa for the night the ferry gets in

Sort by distance from Terminal de Autobuses de Tarifa and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Alicante to Tarifa

The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.

  1. €46.5390 days
  2. €38.2860 days
  3. €44.3345 days
  4. €42.1330 days
  5. €37.7321 days
  6. €48.1814 days
  7. €50.937 days
  8. €67.993 days
  9. €61.941 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 21 days ahead, at €37.73.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 80 percent. The dearest point is €67.99, 3 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 21 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Day of the week

Which departure day costs least

Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.

  1. €49.83Sun
  2. €47.63Mon
  3. €48.18Tue
  4. €48.18Wed
  5. €65.78Thu
  6. €64.14Fri
  7. €61.39Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Alicante

Ferry
  • ALICANTE
  • Alicante-Isla de Tabarca
  • Cruise Terminal

Tarifa

Ferry
  • TARIFA
  • Terminal Marítima de Tarifa
The journey

What the journey actually looks like

Direct or connecting
0% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 100% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 549 km against 523 km in a straight line, a detour of 5 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at La Línea de la Concepción, Marbella. The gap between arriving and leaving is 63 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 15 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is ours to fix and you are rebooked at no charge.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Alicante at 07:30 and the last at 07:30, across 2 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Alicante to Tarifa

The questions people actually ask about this journey, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.

How long does the Ferry from Alicante to Tarifa take?

The Ferry from Alicante to Tarifa takes 19h 9m door to door, of which 16h 36m is spent moving. The route runs 549 km. The difference between the two times is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end, which every time on this page includes.

How much does the Ferry from Alicante to Tarifa cost?

The Ferry from Alicante to Tarifa starts at €47.63 for one passenger, as of 15 September 2026. A typical fare is €39.38. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.

Who runs the Ferry from Alicante to Tarifa?

1 operators run the Ferry from Alicante to Tarifa: Baleària. Between them they file around 2 departures a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.

Which terminal does the Ferry from Alicante to Tarifa use?

The Ferry from Alicante to Tarifa leaves from ALICANTE and arrives at TARIFA. Allow about 1h 30m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.

When should I book the Ferry from Alicante to Tarifa?

Fares for the Ferry from Alicante to Tarifa bottom out around 21 days ahead, at €37.73. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 80 percent, measured on 15 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Ferry from Alicante to Tarifa produce?

The Ferry from Alicante to Tarifa produces about 63.3 kg of CO2 per passenger over 549 km, which works out at roughly 115 grams per passenger kilometre. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveller, not for the vehicle.

What is provided on board the Ferry from Alicante to Tarifa?

Operators on the Ferry from Alicante to Tarifa publish Bar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Toilets. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 19h 9m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.

Where these numbers come from

Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance on this page are real and come from open data. Where a corridor has a filed timetable the departure times are real too, and ferry fares are the prices the operators publish themselves.

Derived from service area No carrier record names this exact pair. The operators listed publish a service area covering both places at a distance their mode plausibly carries people, which is evidence that the corridor is served and not evidence of a specific service. Pages state which, because presenting the two as the same thing would be dishonest.

Where no operator publishes a fare for a corridor, the price here is our own estimate, worked out from the real distance and the real operator through a fare curve that follows lead time, day of the week and season. It tells you roughly what the journey costs. It is not a seat anyone has agreed to sell, and the payment step will not take it.

Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Alicante to Tarifa on 15 September 2026: 549 km of route against 523 km in a straight line, 2 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €47.63, and 19h 9m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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