La Spezia to Formia ferry

Ferries from La Spezia to Formia start at €42.69 and take 17h 58m at their fastest.

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The Ferries from La Spezia to Formia starts at €42.69 and takes 17h 58m door to door, run by 1 operator over 480 km, with around 1 departure a day. Fares bottom out about 30 days before departure.

Checked 14 September 2026Priced for 5 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 17h 58mDoor to door
  • 15h 6mMoving
  • €42.69 to €86.14From
  • 07:30 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 1Per day
  • 55.2 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.

€42.69 to €86.14 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.

Fares by date

What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.

Typical fares

  1. about €82.29Tue15
  2. about €64.14Wed16
  3. about €86.14Thu17
  4. about €69.09Fri18
  5. about €66.89Sat19
  6. about €60.84Sun20
  7. about €53.14Mon21
  8. about €42.69Tue22
  9. about €47.09Wed23
  10. about €58.64Thu24
  11. about €46.54Fri25
  12. about €51.49Sat26
  13. about €56.44Sun27
  14. about €44.89Mon28

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€32.78
  1. Grimaldi G634107:305h 21m12:51LA SPEZIAMolo di Bandella
  2. Grimaldi G811814:139h 45m23:58Molo di BandellaFORMIA

Changes at Montevarchi, with 82 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 17h 58mCO2 55.2 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
GrimaldiNoneNone33 km/hChangeableBar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Toilets
  • Grimaldi

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

A hotel room

A room in Formia for the night the ferry gets in

Sort by distance from Formia-Gaeta 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 La Spezia to Formia

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

  1. €33.8990 days
  2. €33.3360 days
  3. €41.5945 days
  4. €32.7830 days
  5. €32.7821 days
  6. €44.8914 days
  7. €53.147 days
  8. €86.143 days
  9. €82.291 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €32.78.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 163 percent. The dearest point is €86.14, 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. €56.44Sun
  2. €44.89Mon
  3. €42.69Tue
  4. €47.09Wed
  5. €58.64Thu
  6. €46.54Fri
  7. €51.49Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

La Spezia

Ferry
  • LA SPEZIA
  • Pozzale
  • Terminal Traghetti di La Spezia

Formia

Ferry
  • FORMIA
  • Formia
The journey

What the journey actually looks like

Direct or connecting
0% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 100% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 480 km against 443 km in a straight line, a detour of 7 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Montevarchi, Rome. The gap between arriving and leaving is 82 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 12 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 Spezia at 07:30 and the last at 07:30, across 1 departure 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
Train9h 28m6h 40m2h 48m€64.6925.3 kg1
Ferry17h 58m15h 6m2h 52m€42.6955.2 kg1

Questions about La Spezia to Formia

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 Spezia to Formia take?

The Ferry from La Spezia to Formia takes 17h 58m door to door, of which 15h 6m is spent moving. The route runs 480 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 Spezia to Formia cost?

The Ferry from La Spezia to Formia starts at €42.69 for one passenger, as of 14 September 2026. A typical fare is €32.78. 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 Spezia to Formia?

1 operators run the Ferry from La Spezia to Formia: Grimaldi. 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.

Which terminal does the Ferry from La Spezia to Formia use?

The Ferry from La Spezia to Formia leaves from LA SPEZIA and arrives at FORMIA. 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 La Spezia to Formia?

Travelling from La Spezia to Formia by Train costs €64.69 and takes 9h 28m door to door, against 17h 58m 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 La Spezia to Formia?

Fares for the Ferry from La Spezia to Formia bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €32.78. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 163 percent, measured on 14 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Ferry from La Spezia to Formia produce?

The Ferry from La Spezia to Formia produces about 55.2 kg of CO2 per passenger over 480 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 Spezia to Formia?

Operators on the Ferry from La Spezia to Formia publish Bar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Toilets. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 17h 58m 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 Spezia to Formia on 14 September 2026: 480 km of route against 443 km in a straight line, 1 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €42.69, and 17h 58m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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