Nantes to Bordeaux ferry
Ferries from Nantes to Bordeaux start at €19.04 and take 9h 50m at their fastest.
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The Ferries from Nantes to Bordeaux starts at €19.04 and takes 9h 50m door to door, run by 1 operator over 275 km, with around 6 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 30 days before departure.
- 9h 50mDoor to door
- 8h 20mMoving
- €19.04 to €38.84From
- 06:26 to 14:39First and last departure
- 6Per day
- 31.6 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.
€19.04 to €38.84 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
- about €38.84Tue15
- about €36.64Wed16
- about €34.44Thu17
- about €30.04Fri18
- about €30.59Sat19
- about €33.34Sun20
- about €27.29Mon21
- about €23.99Tue22
- about €22.89Wed23
- about €27.29Thu24
- about €33.34Fri25
- about €28.39Sat26
- about €25.09Sun27
- about €19.04Mon28
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.
The cheapest and the fastest on 5 October 2026
No bookable itinerary on the day this page prices, so none is shown.
Ferry operators
| Operator | From | Fastest | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Brittany Ferries | €17.39 | 9h 33m | 33 km/h | Changeable | Bar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Toilets |
The ferry gets you into Bordeaux. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.
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When to book Nantes to Bordeaux
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €16.1390 days
- €15.0360 days
- €16.1345 days
- €13.3830 days
- €13.9321 days
- €15.0314 days
- €16.687 days
- €26.583 days
- €23.831 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €13.38.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 99 percent. The dearest point is €26.58, 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.
Which departure day costs least
Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
- €21.63Sun
- €15.03Mon
- €16.68Tue
- €17.78Wed
- €23.28Thu
- €24.38Fri
- €22.73Sat
Where you leave from and where you arrive
Nantes
- Gachet
- Port Boyer
Bordeaux
- Cité du Vin
What the journey actually looks like
- Direct or connecting
- 69% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 31% involve one connection.
- How far it really runs
- The route covers 275 km against 275 km in a straight line, a detour of 0 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
- Where the change is
- Connections are made at Fontenay-le-Comte, Rochefort, Royan, La Rochelle. The gap between arriving and leaving is 46 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. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is ours to fix and you are rebooked at no charge.
- First and last departure
- The first service of the day leaves Nantes at 06:26 and the last at 14:39, across 6 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
Ferries against the other ways to make this journey
| Mode | Door to door | Moving | At the ends | From | CO2 | Per day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Train | 2h 41m | 1h 57m | 44m | €38.84 | 9.1 kg | 2 |
| Flight | 3h 57m | 47m | 3h 10m | €34.36 | 69.6 kg | 1 |
| Coach | 4h 40m | 3h 56m | 44m | €15.03 | 7.4 kg | 4 |
| Ferry | 9h 50m | 8h 20m | 1h 30m | €19.04 | 31.6 kg | 6 |
Questions about Nantes to Bordeaux
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 Nantes to Bordeaux take?
The Ferry from Nantes to Bordeaux takes 9h 50m door to door, of which 8h 20m is spent moving. The route runs 275 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 Nantes to Bordeaux cost?
The Ferry from Nantes to Bordeaux starts at €19.04 for one passenger, as of 14 September 2026. A typical fare is €21.78. 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 Nantes to Bordeaux?
1 operators run the Ferry from Nantes to Bordeaux: Brittany Ferries. 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 Nantes to Bordeaux use?
The Ferry from Nantes to Bordeaux leaves from Gachet and arrives at Cité du Vin. 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 Nantes to Bordeaux?
Travelling from Nantes to Bordeaux by Coach costs €15.03 and takes 4h 40m door to door, against 9h 50m 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 Nantes to Bordeaux?
Fares for the Ferry from Nantes to Bordeaux bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €13.38. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 99 percent, measured on 14 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
How much CO2 does the Ferry from Nantes to Bordeaux produce?
The Ferry from Nantes to Bordeaux produces about 31.6 kg of CO2 per passenger over 275 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 Nantes to Bordeaux?
Operators on the Ferry from Nantes to Bordeaux publish Bar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Toilets. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 9h 50m 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 Nantes to Bordeaux on 14 September 2026: 275 km of route against 275 km in a straight line, 6 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €19.04, and 9h 50m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
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