Catania to Livorno ferry

Ferries from Catania to Livorno start at €57.54 and take 27h 35m at their fastest.

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The Ferries from Catania to Livorno starts at €57.54 and takes 27h 35m door to door, run by 1 operator over 822 km, with around 4 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 30 days before departure.

Checked 20 September 2026Priced for 7 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 27h 35mDoor to door
  • 26h 5mMoving
  • €65.24 to €111.44From
  • 06:12 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 4Per day
  • 18.9 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on 7 October 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€65.24 to €111.44 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Typical for this corridor. The operator sets the price on the day.

Departure times on this route

12Go lists the departures it sells between Catania and Livorno.

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Book your crossing

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

Buying this journey

Direct Ferries 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 €111.44Mon21
  2. about €89.44Tue22
  3. about €93.29Wed23
  4. about €99.34Thu24
  5. about €103.19Fri25
  6. about €92.74Sat26
  7. about €103.19Sun27
  8. about €66.33Mon28
  9. about €65.24Tue29
  10. about €67.99Wed30
  11. about €69.09Thu1
  12. about €86.14Fri2
  13. about €71.29Sat3
  14. about €70.74Sun4

Based on what this route has cost recently. The live fare is confirmed when you book.

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 7 October 2026

Lowest CO2€58.09
  1. Grimaldi G145407:3018h 20m01:50Catania PortoCIVITAVECCHIA
  2. Grimaldi G772002:536h 22m09:15CIVITAVECCHIALIVORNO

Changes at Civitavecchia, with 63 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 27h 15mCO2 18.7 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€49.2925h 5m33 km/hChangeableBar, Bicycles, Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Toilets
  • Grimaldi

The ferry gets you into Livorno. These two partners take it from there, and the bed is theirs to book.

A hotel room

A room in Livorno for the night the ferry gets in

Sort by distance from Livorno Centrale and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Catania to Livorno

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

  1. €45.2890 days
  2. €42.5360 days
  3. €40.3345 days
  4. €32.0830 days
  5. €41.4321 days
  6. €55.7314 days
  7. €65.087 days
  8. €76.083 days
  9. €78.281 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €32.08.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 144 percent. The dearest point is €78.28, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 30 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. €55.73Sun
  2. €50.23Mon
  3. €60.68Tue
  4. €60.13Wed
  5. €61.23Thu
  6. €63.43Fri
  7. €52.98Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Catania

Ferry
  • Catania Porto

Livorno

Ferry
  • LIVORNO
  • Livorno Porto Mediceo
  • Toremar
The journey

What the journey looks like

Direct or connecting
33% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 67% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 822 km against 783 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 Anzio, Civitavecchia, Piombino, Rome. The gap between arriving and leaving is 61 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 16 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 Catania at 06:12 and the last at 07:30, across 4 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
The alternatives

Ferries against the other ways to make this journey

Door to door means the whole journey, including reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end. Fares are the cheapest sold on each mode.
ModeDoor to doorMovingAt the endsFromCO2Per day
Coach11h 46m11h 2m44m€41.4327.9 kg1
Ferry27h 35m26h 5m1h 30m€57.5418.9 kg4

Questions about Catania to Livorno

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 Catania to Livorno take?

The Ferry from Catania to Livorno takes 27h 35m door to door, of which 26h 5m is spent moving. The route runs 822 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 Catania to Livorno cost?

The Ferry from Catania to Livorno starts at €57.54 for one passenger, as of 20 September 2026. A typical fare is €58.37. 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 Catania to Livorno?

1 operators run the Ferry from Catania to Livorno: Grimaldi. Between them they file around 4 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 Catania to Livorno use?

The Ferry from Catania to Livorno leaves from Catania Porto and arrives at LIVORNO. 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.

Is the Ferry the best way from Catania to Livorno?

Travelling from Catania to Livorno by Coach costs €41.43 and takes 11h 46m door to door, against 27h 35m by Ferry. Which is better depends on whether the money or the hours matter more on this trip. The comparison table on this page shows every mode side by side.

When should I book the Ferry from Catania to Livorno?

Fares for the Ferry from Catania to Livorno bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €32.08. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 144 percent, measured on 20 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Ferry from Catania to Livorno produce?

The Ferry from Catania to Livorno produces about 18.9 kg of CO2 per passenger over 822 km, which works out at roughly 23 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 Catania to Livorno?

Operators on the Ferry from Catania to Livorno publish Bar, Bicycles, Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Toilets. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 27h 35m 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 The operators listed publish a service area covering both places. That evidences the corridor rather than a named service.

Prices come from the supplier wherever we hold a live quote. Elsewhere we show an indicative price built from the real distance, the real operator and a fare curve over lead time, day of the week and season. Those are labelled Estimated fare and cannot be booked.

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

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Catania to Livorno on 20 September 2026: 822 km of route against 783 km in a straight line, 4 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €57.54, and 27h 35m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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