La Maddalena to Palermo ferry

Ferries from La Maddalena to Palermo start at €30.59 and take 17h 1m at their fastest.

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The Ferries from La Maddalena to Palermo starts at €30.59 and takes 17h 1m door to door, run by 2 operators over 507 km, with around 6 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 45 days before departure.

Checked 17 September 2026Priced for 5 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 17h 1mDoor to door
  • 15h 31mMoving
  • €35.54 to €107.04From
  • 06:11 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 6Per day
  • 58.3 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.

€35.54 to €107.04 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.

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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 €107.04Fri18
  2. about €80.64Sat19
  3. about €72.94Sun20
  4. about €48.19Mon21
  5. about €58.09Tue22
  6. about €50.94Wed23
  7. about €59.19Thu24
  8. about €44.34Fri25
  9. about €53.69Sat26
  10. about €43.24Sun27
  11. about €39.39Mon28
  12. about €35.54Tue29
  13. about €42.14Wed30
  14. about €48.19Thu1

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 5 October 2026

Cheapest€30.59
  1. Grimaldi G478806:1116h 26m22:37LA MADDALENAPALERMO

Door to door 17h 56mCO2 58.3 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Fastest€56.98
  1. Grimaldi G524107:301h 24m08:54LA MADDALENAMolo 9
  2. VOLOTEA Airways VO572210:221h 3m11:25Olbia OLBPalermo PMO

Changes at Olbia, with 88 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.

Door to door 6h 15mCO2 119.4 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.
OperatorFrom
Grandi Navi Veloci€33.34
Grimaldi€30.59
  • Grandi Navi Veloci
  • Grimaldi

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

A hotel room

A room in Palermo for the night the ferry gets in

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Booking window

When to book La Maddalena to Palermo

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. €29.4960 days
  3. €27.2945 days
  4. €30.5930 days
  5. €44.8921 days
  6. €48.1914 days
  7. €59.197 days
  8. €72.943 days
  9. €107.041 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €27.29.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 292 percent. The dearest point is €107.04, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 45 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. €43.24Sun
  2. €39.39Mon
  3. €35.54Tue
  4. €42.14Wed
  5. €48.19Thu
  6. €44.34Fri
  7. €53.69Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

La Maddalena

Ferry
  • LA MADDALENA
  • La Maddalena

Palermo

Ferry
  • PALERMO
  • Palermo (Liberty Lines)
  • Palermo Stazione Marittima
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 507 km against 483 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 Trapani, Marsala, Olbia, Mazara del Vallo. The gap between arriving and leaving is 50 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 La Maddalena at 06:11 and the last at 07:30, across 6 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about La Maddalena to Palermo

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 La Maddalena to Palermo take?

The Ferry from La Maddalena to Palermo takes 17h 1m door to door, of which 15h 31m is spent moving. The route runs 507 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 La Maddalena to Palermo cost?

The Ferry from La Maddalena to Palermo starts at €30.59 for one passenger, as of 17 September 2026. A typical fare is €38.29. 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 La Maddalena to Palermo?

2 operators run the Ferry from La Maddalena to Palermo: Grandi Navi Veloci, Grimaldi. Between them they file around 6 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 La Maddalena to Palermo use?

The Ferry from La Maddalena to Palermo leaves from LA MADDALENA and arrives at PALERMO. 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 La Maddalena to Palermo?

Fares for the Ferry from La Maddalena to Palermo bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €27.29. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 292 percent, measured on 17 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Ferry from La Maddalena to Palermo produce?

The Ferry from La Maddalena to Palermo produces about 58.3 kg of CO2 per passenger over 507 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 La Maddalena to Palermo?

Operators on the Ferry from La Maddalena to Palermo publish Bar, Bicycles, Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Toilets. That is what 2 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 17h 1m 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 La Maddalena to Palermo on 17 September 2026: 507 km of route against 483 km in a straight line, 6 services a day, 2 operators a cheapest fare of €30.59, and 17h 1m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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