Cheapest€19.59
- Grimaldi G219206:079h 43m15:50PALERMOTUNIS
Door to door 11h 13mCO2 36.5 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee
Palermo to Tunis ferry
Ferries from Palermo to Tunis start at €26.19 and take 11h 13m at their fastest.
Check dates and fares
Fares and seats move by the day. Price Palermo to Tunis on the date you actually want, rather than on the date this page was built.
The Ferries from Palermo to Tunis starts at €26.19 and takes 11h 13m door to door, run by 1 operator over 317 km, with around 1 departure a day. Fares bottom out about 30 days before departure.
- 11h 13mDoor to door
- 9h 43mMoving
- €26.19 to €55.34From
- 02:30 to 02:30First and last departure
- 1Per day
- 36.5 kgCO2
First and last are the departures the operators themselves filed for 29 September 2026, across 1 services on the day.
€26.19 to €55.34 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 29 September 2026
Real sailings, with the fares the operator is charging. Check the season before you count on one.
02:3014:0011h 30m
GRIMALDI LINESVessel MV CATANIADirect
PALERMO → TUNIS
from €69.00deckseat €70.00 €179.00
Fares by date
What the operator is charging, by departure date.
29 September 2026
€69.00
GRIMALDI 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 29 September 2026
Ferry operators
| Operator | From | Fastest | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Grimaldi | €19.59 | 10h 47m | 33 km/h | Changeable | Bar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Toilets |
The ferry gets you into Tunis. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.
A room in Tunis for the night the ferry gets in
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When to book Palermo to Tunis
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €31.1490 days
- €22.8960 days
- €24.5445 days
- €19.5930 days
- €20.1421 days
- €31.1414 days
- €30.597 days
- €49.843 days
- €55.341 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €19.59.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 182 percent. The dearest point is €55.34, 1 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.
- €34.99Sun
- €30.59Mon
- €30.04Tue
- €26.19Wed
- €40.49Thu
- €28.39Fri
- €34.44Sat
Where you leave from and where you arrive
Palermo
Ferry
- PALERMO
- Palermo (Liberty Lines)
- Palermo Stazione Marittima
Tunis
Ferry
- TUNIS
What the journey actually looks like
- Direct or connecting
- 67% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 33% involve one connection.
- How far it really runs
- The route covers 317 km against 317 km in a straight line, a detour of 2 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
- Where the change is
- Connections are made at Cagliari. The gap between arriving and leaving is 101 minutes, of which about 14 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 10 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 Palermo at 06:07 and the last at 06:07, across 1 departure 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flight | 4h | 50m | 3h 10m | €45.57 | 80.2 kg | 1 |
| Ferry | 11h 13m | 9h 43m | 1h 30m | €26.19 | 36.5 kg | 1 |
Questions about Palermo to Tunis
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 Palermo to Tunis take?
The Ferry from Palermo to Tunis takes 11h 13m door to door, of which 9h 43m is spent moving. The route runs 317 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 Palermo to Tunis cost?
The Ferry from Palermo to Tunis starts at €26.19 for one passenger, as of 14 September 2026. A typical fare is €19.59. 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 Palermo to Tunis?
1 operators run the Ferry from Palermo to Tunis: 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 Palermo to Tunis use?
The Ferry from Palermo to Tunis leaves from PALERMO and arrives at TUNIS. 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 Palermo to Tunis?
Travelling from Palermo to Tunis by Flight costs €45.57 and takes 4h door to door, against 11h 13m 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 Palermo to Tunis?
Fares for the Ferry from Palermo to Tunis bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €19.59. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 182 percent, measured on 14 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
How much CO2 does the Ferry from Palermo to Tunis produce?
The Ferry from Palermo to Tunis produces about 36.5 kg of CO2 per passenger over 317 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 Palermo to Tunis?
Operators on the Ferry from Palermo to Tunis publish Bar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Toilets. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 11h 13m 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 Palermo to Tunis on 14 September 2026: 317 km of route against 317 km in a straight line, 1 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €26.19, and 11h 13m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
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