Cheapest€11.89
- Liberty Lines LL176006:064h 51m10:57LIPARIPALERMO
Door to door 6h 21mCO2 18.3 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee
Lipari to Palermo ferry
Ferries from Lipari to Palermo start at €12.99 and take 6h 21m at their fastest.
Check dates and fares
Fares and seats move by the day. Price Lipari to Palermo on the date you actually want, rather than on the date this page was built.
The Ferries from Lipari to Palermo starts at €12.99 and takes 6h 21m door to door, run by 1 operator over 159 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 45 days before departure.
- 6h 21mDoor to door
- 4h 51mMoving
- €12.99 to €24.54From
- 07:50 to 07:50First and last departure
- 1Per day
- 18.3 kgCO2
First and last are the departures the operators themselves filed for 17 September 2026, across 1 services on the day.
€12.99 to €24.54 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.
07:5011:353h 45m
LIBERTY LINESVessel LIBERTY LINESDirect
LIPARI → PALERMO
from €47.43 €57.43
Fares by date
What the operator is charging, by departure date.
17 September 2026
€47.43
LIBERTY LINES
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.
The cheapest and the fastest on 4 October 2026
Fastest€43.23
- Liberty Lines LL392207:302h 21m09:51LIPARIMESSINA
- Trenitalia T839711:001h 37m12:37Messina CentralePalermo Centrale
Changes at Messina, with 69 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.
Door to door 6h 14mCO2 14.8 kgChanges 1Changeable for a fee
Ferry operators
| Operator | From | Fastest | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberty Lines | €11.89 | 6h 20m | 33 km/h | Changeable | Bar, Bicycles, Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Toilets |
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When to book Lipari to Palermo
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €16.2990 days
- €13.5460 days
- €11.8945 days
- €11.8930 days
- €12.4421 days
- €12.9914 days
- €14.097 days
- €19.593 days
- €21.241 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €11.89.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 79 percent. The dearest point is €21.24, 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.
Which departure day costs least
Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
- €15.19Sun
- €12.99Mon
- €14.09Tue
- €17.39Wed
- €19.59Thu
- €19.59Fri
- €21.79Sat
Where you leave from and where you arrive
Lipari
Ferry
- LIPARI
Palermo
Ferry
- PALERMO
- Palermo (Liberty Lines)
- Palermo Stazione Marittima
What the journey actually 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 159 km against 144 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 Messina, Reggio Calabria, Santa Marina Salina, Milazzo. The gap between arriving and leaving is 69 minutes, of which about 14 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 14 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 Lipari at 06:06 and the last at 07:30, across 5 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
Questions about Lipari 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 Lipari to Palermo take?
The Ferry from Lipari to Palermo takes 6h 21m door to door, of which 4h 51m is spent moving. The route runs 159 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 Lipari to Palermo cost?
The Ferry from Lipari to Palermo starts at €12.99 for one passenger, as of 14 September 2026. A typical fare is €24.53. 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 Lipari to Palermo?
1 operators run the Ferry from Lipari to Palermo: Liberty Lines. Between them they file around 5 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 Lipari to Palermo use?
The Ferry from Lipari to Palermo leaves from LIPARI 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 Lipari to Palermo?
Fares for the Ferry from Lipari to Palermo bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €11.89. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 79 percent, measured on 14 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
How much CO2 does the Ferry from Lipari to Palermo produce?
The Ferry from Lipari to Palermo produces about 18.3 kg of CO2 per passenger over 159 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 Lipari to Palermo?
Operators on the Ferry from Lipari to Palermo publish Bar, Bicycles, Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Toilets. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 6h 21m 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 Lipari to Palermo on 14 September 2026: 159 km of route against 144 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €12.99, and 6h 21m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
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