Altea to Donostia / San Sebastian ferry

Ferries from Altea to Donostia / San Sebastian start at €34.99 and take 19h 55m at their fastest.

AlteaAlteaDonostia / San SebastiánDonostia / San Sebastián

The Ferries from Altea to Donostia / San Sebastian starts at €34.99 and takes 19h 55m door to door, run by 1 operator over 576 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked 17 September 2026Priced for 6 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 19h 55mDoor to door
  • 18h 25mMoving
  • €41.04 to €95.49From
  • 06:24 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 5Per day
  • 66.2 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.

€41.04 to €95.49 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.

Grimaldi runs this service and does not sell it here. AFerry takes the payment.

Buying this journey

AFerry holds the sailings between these two ports, with the crossing times and the fares.

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Fares by date

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

Typical fares

  1. about €95.49Fri18
  2. about €94.39Sat19
  3. about €61.94Sun20
  4. about €58.64Mon21
  5. about €52.04Tue22
  6. about €54.24Wed23
  7. about €56.44Thu24
  8. about €53.69Fri25
  9. about €53.14Sat26
  10. about €58.64Sun27
  11. about €49.29Mon28
  12. about €46.54Tue29
  13. about €49.29Wed30
  14. about €41.04Thu1

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€34.99
  1. Grimaldi G216006:2418h 25m00:49Embarque Catamaran Mundo Marino AlteaDonostia

Door to door 19h 55mCO2 66.2 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Fastest€53.14
  1. Grimaldi G394507:3011h 45m19:15Embarque Catamaran Mundo Marino AlteaEl Puerto
  2. Renfe R129520:121h 38m21:50Zaragoza DeliciasDonostia-San Sebastián

Changes at Zaragoza, with 57 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.

Door to door 15h 27mCO2 49.0 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
Grimaldi€34.9918h 1m33 km/hChangeableBar, Bicycles, Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Toilets
  • Grimaldi

The ferry gets you into Donostia / San Sebastian. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.

A hotel room

A room in Donostia / San Sebastian for the night the ferry gets in

Sort by distance from Donostia-San Sebastián and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Altea to Donostia / San Sebastian

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

  1. €45.4490 days
  2. €29.4960 days
  3. €33.8945 days
  4. €37.1930 days
  5. €43.7921 days
  6. €41.0414 days
  7. €56.447 days
  8. €61.943 days
  9. €95.491 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €29.49.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 224 percent. The dearest point is €95.49, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 60 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. €58.64Sun
  2. €49.29Mon
  3. €46.54Tue
  4. €49.29Wed
  5. €43.79Thu
  6. €53.69Fri
  7. €53.14Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Altea

Ferry
  • Embarque Catamaran Mundo Marino Altea

Donostia / San Sebastián

Ferry
  • Donostia
  • Santa Clara
The journey

What the journey looks like

Direct or connecting
20% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 80% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 576 km against 548 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 Zaragoza, Utebo, Gandia, Valencia. The gap between arriving and leaving is 57 minutes, of which about 14 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 17 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Part of this journey is a self transfer between separate tickets, so leave more time than the minimum and expect to check in again.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Altea at 06:24 and the last at 07:30, across 5 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Altea to Donostia / San Sebastian

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 Altea to Donostia / San Sebastian take?

The Ferry from Altea to Donostia / San Sebastian takes 19h 55m door to door, of which 18h 25m is spent moving. The route runs 576 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 Altea to Donostia / San Sebastian cost?

The Ferry from Altea to Donostia / San Sebastian starts at €34.99 for one passenger, as of 17 September 2026. A typical fare is €42.13. 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 Altea to Donostia / San Sebastian?

1 operators run the Ferry from Altea to Donostia / San Sebastian: Grimaldi. Between them they file around 5 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 Altea to Donostia / San Sebastian use?

The Ferry from Altea to Donostia / San Sebastian leaves from Embarque Catamaran Mundo Marino Altea and arrives at Donostia. 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 Altea to Donostia / San Sebastian?

Fares for the Ferry from Altea to Donostia / San Sebastian bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €29.49. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 224 percent, measured on 17 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Ferry from Altea to Donostia / San Sebastian produce?

The Ferry from Altea to Donostia / San Sebastian produces about 66.2 kg of CO2 per passenger over 576 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 Altea to Donostia / San Sebastian?

Operators on the Ferry from Altea to Donostia / San Sebastian publish Bar, Bicycles, Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Toilets. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 19h 55m 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 Altea to Donostia / San Sebastian on 17 September 2026: 576 km of route against 548 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €34.99, and 19h 55m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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