Gosport to Swansea ferry

Ferries from Gosport to Swansea start at €15.74 and take 9h 7m at their fastest.

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The Ferries from Gosport to Swansea starts at €15.74 and takes 9h 7m door to door, run by 1 operator over 227 km, with around 2 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 30 days before departure.

Checked 20 September 2026Priced for 5 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 9h 7mDoor to door
  • 7h 37mMoving
  • €21.78 to €33.33From
  • 06:26 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 2Per day
  • 5.2 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on 5 October 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€21.78 to €33.33 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 Gosport and Swansea.

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Book your crossing

Brittany Ferries 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 €30.58Mon21
  2. about €30.58Tue22
  3. about €32.79Wed23
  4. about €27.84Thu24
  5. about €32.23Fri25
  6. about €33.33Sat26
  7. about €27.29Sun27
  8. about €21.78Mon28
  9. about €21.79Tue29
  10. about €25.64Wed30
  11. about €25.09Thu1
  12. about €23.99Fri2
  13. about €23.98Sat3
  14. about €22.33Sun4

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

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 5 October 2026

Cheapest€15.74
  1. Brittany Ferries BF976706:267h 37m14:03Wightlink Fishbourne Car Ferry terminalTawe River Cruises

Door to door 9h 7mCO2 5.2 kgChanges 0Changeable 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
Brittany Ferries€15.748h 13m33 km/hChangeableBar, Bicycles, Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Toilets
  • Brittany Ferries

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

A hotel room

A room in Swansea for the night the ferry gets in

Sort by distance from Swansea railway station and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Gosport to Swansea

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

  1. €22.8990 days
  2. €18.4960 days
  3. €14.6445 days
  4. €13.5430 days
  5. €16.2921 days
  6. €22.3314 days
  7. €27.297 days
  8. €32.793 days
  9. €30.581 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €13.54.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 142 percent. The dearest point is €32.79, 3 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. €22.33Sun
  2. €21.78Mon
  3. €21.79Tue
  4. €25.64Wed
  5. €25.09Thu
  6. €23.99Fri
  7. €23.98Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Gosport

Ferry
  • Wightlink Fishbourne Car Ferry terminal

Swansea

Ferry
  • Tawe River Cruises
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 227 km against 216 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 Weston-super-Mare, Cardiff, Southampton, Bristol. The gap between arriving and leaving is 76 minutes, of which about 14 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 13 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 Gosport at 06:26 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 Gosport to Swansea

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 Gosport to Swansea take?

The Ferry from Gosport to Swansea takes 9h 7m door to door, of which 7h 37m is spent moving. The route runs 227 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 Gosport to Swansea cost?

The Ferry from Gosport to Swansea starts at €15.74 for one passenger, as of 20 September 2026. A typical fare is €18.49. 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 Gosport to Swansea?

1 operators run the Ferry from Gosport to Swansea: Brittany Ferries. 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 Gosport to Swansea use?

The Ferry from Gosport to Swansea leaves from Wightlink Fishbourne Car Ferry terminal and arrives at Tawe River Cruises. 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 Gosport to Swansea?

Fares for the Ferry from Gosport to Swansea bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €13.54. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 142 percent, measured on 20 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Ferry from Gosport to Swansea produce?

The Ferry from Gosport to Swansea produces about 5.2 kg of CO2 per passenger over 227 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 Gosport to Swansea?

Operators on the Ferry from Gosport to Swansea publish Bar, Bicycles, Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Toilets. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 9h 7m 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 Gosport to Swansea on 20 September 2026: 227 km of route against 216 km in a straight line, 2 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €15.74, and 9h 7m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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