Ferries from Cebu City to Butuan start at €19.58 and take 10h 35m at their fastest.
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The Ferries from Cebu City to Butuan starts at €19.58 and takes 10h 35m door to door, run by 2 operators over 293 km, with around 1 departure a day. Fares bottom out about 90 days before departure.
First and last are taken from the services we sell on 12 October 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.
€21.78 to €49.29 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.
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What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.
Typical fares
Based on what this route has cost recently. The live fare is confirmed when you book.
Cokaliong Shipping Lines CS481507:306h 25m13:55CEBURamp 2Changes at Surigao, with 92 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.
Door to door 10h 35mCO2 7.9 kgChanges 1Changeable for a fee
| Operator | Typical speed | On board |
|---|---|---|
| Cokaliong Shipping Lines | 33 km/h | Bar, Bicycles, Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Toilets |
| Bachelor Express | 72 km/h | Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi |
The ferry gets you into Butuan. These two partners take it from there, and the bed is theirs to book.
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Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
| Mode | Door to door | Moving | At the ends | From | CO2 | Per day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coach | 6h 23m | 4h 54m | 1h 29m | €18.87 | 10.9 kg | 2 |
| Ferry | 10h 35m | 7h 56m | 2h 39m | €19.58 | 7.9 kg | 1 |
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.
The Ferry from Cebu City to Butuan takes 10h 35m door to door, of which 7h 56m is spent moving. The route runs 293 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.
The Ferry from Cebu City to Butuan starts at €19.58 for one passenger, as of 23 September 2026. A typical fare is €19.58. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.
2 operators run the Ferry from Cebu City to Butuan: Cokaliong Shipping Lines, Bachelor Express. Between them they file around 1 departure a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.
The Ferry from Cebu City to Butuan leaves from CEBU and arrives at Butuan City Integrated Transport Terminal. Allow about 1h 7m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.
Travelling from Cebu City to Butuan by Coach costs €18.87 and takes 6h 23m door to door, against 10h 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.
Fares for the Ferry from Cebu City to Butuan bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €18.48. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 121 percent, measured on 23 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
The Ferry from Cebu City to Butuan produces about 7.9 kg of CO2 per passenger over 293 km, which works out at roughly 27 grams per passenger kilometre. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveller, not for the vehicle.
Operators on the Ferry from Cebu City to Butuan publish Bar, Bicycles, Cabins, Cafe, Power sockets, Restaurant, Toilets, Wi-Fi. That is what 2 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 10h 35m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.
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.
Observed service A carrier record names this operator on this pair, carried through unchanged.
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.
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Being on the water gives Butuan a set of days out that do not start at a station.
Day trips that leave Butuan in the morning and cover a good part of Philippines by evening.
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10h 35m
7h 56m
€21.78 to €49.29
07:30 to 07:30
1
7.9 kg
Ferry