Hirtshals to Stavanger ferry

Ferries from Hirtshals to Stavanger start at €27.84 and take 11h 19m at their fastest.

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The Ferries from Hirtshals to Stavanger starts at €27.84 and takes 11h 19m door to door, run by 1 operator over 320 km, with around 3 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked 14 September 2026Priced for 30 September 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 11h 19mDoor to door
  • 9h 49mMoving
  • €27.84 to €54.79From
  • 19:15 to 19:15First and last departure
  • 1Per day
  • 36.8 kgCO2

First and last are the departures the operators themselves filed for 17 September 2026, across 1 services on the day.

€27.84 to €54.79 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.

Sailings on 17 September 2026

Real sailings, with the fares the operator is charging. Check the season before you count on one.

  1. 19:1507:0011h 45m

    FJORD LINEVessel MS BERGENSFJORDDirect

    HIRTSHALSSTAVANGER

    from €146.00 €264.00

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Fares by date

What the operator is charging, by departure date.

17 September 2026

€146.00

FJORD LINE

This crossing was checked for one date, and that is the only date we hold a fare for. The operator sells the rest of the season.

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 30 September 2026

Cheapest€22.89
  1. Fjord Line FL648506:459h 49m16:34HIRTSHALSSTAVANGER

Door to door 11h 19mCO2 36.8 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Fastest€35.54
  1. Color Line CL405207:304h 43m12:13HIRTSHALSKRISTIANSAND
  2. Go-Ahead Norge GA738513:471h 11m14:58KristiansandStavanger

Changes at Kristiansand, with 94 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.

Door to door 8h 35mCO2 22.0 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
Fjord Line€22.8910h 49m33 km/hChangeableBar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Toilets
  • Fjord Line

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Booking window

When to book Hirtshals to Stavanger

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

  1. €30.0490 days
  2. €21.2460 days
  3. €23.9945 days
  4. €22.3430 days
  5. €26.1921 days
  6. €28.9414 days
  7. €41.597 days
  8. €49.843 days
  9. €54.791 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €21.24.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 158 percent. The dearest point is €54.79, 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. €33.34Sun
  2. €28.94Mon
  3. €28.39Tue
  4. €27.84Wed
  5. €35.54Thu
  6. €40.49Fri
  7. €33.89Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Hirtshals

Ferry
  • HIRTSHALS

Stavanger

Ferry
  • STAVANGER
  • Stavanger Fiskepiren
  • Stavanger hurtigbåtterminal
The journey

What the journey actually 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 320 km against 291 km in a straight line, a detour of 10 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Bergen, Kristiansand. The gap between arriving and leaving is 56 minutes, of which about 5 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 Hirtshals at 06:45 and the last at 07:30, across 3 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Hirtshals to Stavanger

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 Hirtshals to Stavanger take?

The Ferry from Hirtshals to Stavanger takes 11h 19m door to door, of which 9h 49m is spent moving. The route runs 320 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 Hirtshals to Stavanger cost?

The Ferry from Hirtshals to Stavanger starts at €27.84 for one passenger, as of 14 September 2026. A typical fare is €35.54. 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 Hirtshals to Stavanger?

1 operators run the Ferry from Hirtshals to Stavanger: Fjord Line. Between them they file around 3 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 Hirtshals to Stavanger use?

The Ferry from Hirtshals to Stavanger leaves from HIRTSHALS and arrives at STAVANGER. 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 Hirtshals to Stavanger?

Fares for the Ferry from Hirtshals to Stavanger bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €21.24. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 158 percent, measured on 14 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Ferry from Hirtshals to Stavanger produce?

The Ferry from Hirtshals to Stavanger produces about 36.8 kg of CO2 per passenger over 320 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 Hirtshals to Stavanger?

Operators on the Ferry from Hirtshals to Stavanger publish Bar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Toilets. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 11h 19m 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.

Observed service A carrier record shows this named operator serving this named pair, and we carry that through unchanged.

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 Hirtshals to Stavanger on 14 September 2026: 320 km of route against 291 km in a straight line, 3 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €27.84, and 11h 19m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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