Carloforte to Ancona ferry

Ferries from Carloforte to Ancona start at €42.14 and take 21h 56m at their fastest.

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Ancona, Marche, Italy

The Ferries from Carloforte to Ancona starts at €42.14 and takes 21h 56m door to door, run by 1 operator over 693 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

  • 21h 56mDoor to door
  • 20h 26mMoving
  • €49.29 to €120.79From
  • 06:24 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 5Per day
  • 79.7 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.

€49.29 to €120.79 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 €114.74Fri18
  2. about €120.79Sat19
  3. about €74.59Sun20
  4. about €69.64Mon21
  5. about €61.94Tue22
  6. about €64.69Wed23
  7. about €67.44Thu24
  8. about €68.54Fri25
  9. about €63.04Sat26
  10. about €70.19Sun27
  11. about €58.09Mon28
  12. about €55.34Tue29
  13. about €58.64Wed30
  14. about €49.29Thu1

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€42.14
  1. Grimaldi G945406:2420h 26m02:50CARLOFORTEANCONA

Door to door 21h 56mCO2 79.7 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Fastest€54.24
  1. Grimaldi G910707:307h 14m14:44CARLOFORTEMolo 9
  2. VOLOTEA Airways VO896016:041h 1m17:05Olbia OLBAncona AOI

Changes at Olbia, with 80 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.

Door to door 11h 55mCO2 139.6 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes

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€42.1421h 18m33 km/hChangeableBar, Bicycles, Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Toilets
  • Grimaldi

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

A hotel room

A room in Ancona for the night the ferry gets in

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Booking window

When to book Carloforte to Ancona

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

  1. €54.2490 days
  2. €34.4460 days
  3. €39.9445 days
  4. €44.3430 days
  5. €52.0421 days
  6. €49.2914 days
  7. €67.447 days
  8. €74.593 days
  9. €114.741 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €34.44.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 233 percent. The dearest point is €114.74, 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. €70.19Sun
  2. €58.09Mon
  3. €55.34Tue
  4. €58.64Wed
  5. €52.04Thu
  6. €68.54Fri
  7. €63.04Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Carloforte

Ferry
  • CARLOFORTE
  • Carloforte
  • Portovesme

Ancona

Ferry
  • ANCONA
  • Ancona
  • Ancona Stazione Marittima
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 693 km against 660 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 Maddalena, Civitavecchia, Rome, Olbia. The gap between arriving and leaving is 48 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 19 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 Carloforte 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 Carloforte to Ancona

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 Carloforte to Ancona take?

The Ferry from Carloforte to Ancona takes 21h 56m door to door, of which 20h 26m is spent moving. The route runs 693 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 Carloforte to Ancona cost?

The Ferry from Carloforte to Ancona starts at €42.14 for one passenger, as of 17 September 2026. A typical fare is €48.74. 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 Carloforte to Ancona?

1 operators run the Ferry from Carloforte to Ancona: 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 Carloforte to Ancona use?

The Ferry from Carloforte to Ancona leaves from CARLOFORTE and arrives at ANCONA. 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 Carloforte to Ancona?

Fares for the Ferry from Carloforte to Ancona bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €34.44. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 233 percent, measured on 17 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Ferry from Carloforte to Ancona produce?

The Ferry from Carloforte to Ancona produces about 79.7 kg of CO2 per passenger over 693 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 Carloforte to Ancona?

Operators on the Ferry from Carloforte to Ancona publish Bar, Bicycles, Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Toilets. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 21h 56m 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 Carloforte to Ancona on 17 September 2026: 693 km of route against 660 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €42.14, and 21h 56m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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