Livorno to La Spezia ferry

Ferries from Livorno to La Spezia start at €11.88 and take 4h 17m at their fastest.

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The Ferries from Livorno to La Spezia starts at €11.88 and takes 4h 17m door to door, run by 1 operator over 78 km, with around 3 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 90 days before departure.

Checked 20 September 2026Priced for 22 September 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 4h 17mDoor to door
  • 2h 47mMoving
  • €11.88 to €15.74From
  • 06:39 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 3Per day
  • 1.8 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on 22 September 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€11.88 to €15.74 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

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Book your crossing

Grimaldi 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 €15.74Mon21
  2. about €11.88Tue22
  3. about €11.88Wed23
  4. about €11.88Thu24
  5. about €13.54Fri25
  6. about €11.88Sat26
  7. about €11.88Sun27
  8. about €11.88Mon28
  9. about €11.88Tue29
  10. about €11.88Wed30
  11. about €11.88Thu1
  12. about €11.88Fri2
  13. about €11.88Sat3
  14. about €11.88Sun4

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

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 22 September 2026

Cheapest€11.88
  1. Grimaldi G874006:392h 47m09:26LIVORNOLA SPEZIA

Door to door 4h 17mCO2 1.8 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
Grimaldi€11.884h 2m33 km/hChangeableBar, Bicycles, Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Toilets
  • Grimaldi

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

A hotel room

A room in La Spezia for the night the ferry gets in

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Booking window

When to book Livorno to La Spezia

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

  1. €11.8890 days
  2. €11.8860 days
  3. €11.8845 days
  4. €11.8830 days
  5. €11.8821 days
  6. €11.8814 days
  7. €11.887 days
  8. €11.883 days
  9. €15.741 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €11.88.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 32 percent. The dearest point is €15.74, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits outside the cheap window, which opens around 90 days before departure. There is no advantage to booking this minute.
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. €11.88Sun
  2. €11.88Mon
  3. €11.88Tue
  4. €11.88Wed
  5. €11.88Thu
  6. €11.88Fri
  7. €11.88Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Livorno

Ferry
  • LIVORNO
  • Livorno Porto Mediceo
  • Toremar

La Spezia

Ferry
  • LA SPEZIA
  • Pozzale
  • Terminal Traghetti di La Spezia
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 78 km against 74 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 Prato, Chiavari, Rapallo, Pistoia. The gap between arriving and leaving is 47 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 20 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 Livorno at 06:39 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.
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
Train1h 25m41m44m€17.392.6 kg3
Ferry4h 17m2h 47m1h 30m€11.881.8 kg3

Questions about Livorno to La Spezia

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 Livorno to La Spezia take?

The Ferry from Livorno to La Spezia takes 4h 17m door to door, of which 2h 47m is spent moving. The route runs 78 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 Livorno to La Spezia cost?

The Ferry from Livorno to La Spezia starts at €11.88 for one passenger, as of 20 September 2026. A typical fare is €28.38. 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 Livorno to La Spezia?

1 operators run the Ferry from Livorno to La Spezia: Grimaldi. 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 Livorno to La Spezia use?

The Ferry from Livorno to La Spezia leaves from LIVORNO and arrives at LA SPEZIA. 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 Livorno to La Spezia?

Travelling from Livorno to La Spezia by Train costs €17.39 and takes 1h 25m door to door, against 4h 17m 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 Livorno to La Spezia?

Fares for the Ferry from Livorno to La Spezia bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €11.88. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 32 percent, measured on 20 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

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

The Ferry from Livorno to La Spezia produces about 1.8 kg of CO2 per passenger over 78 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 Livorno to La Spezia?

Operators on the Ferry from Livorno to La Spezia publish Bar, Bicycles, Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Toilets. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 4h 17m 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 Livorno to La Spezia on 20 September 2026: 78 km of route against 74 km in a straight line, 3 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €11.88, and 4h 17m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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