Cheapest€16.29
- Brittany Ferries BF751106:267h 57m14:23GwelvaCardiff Sailing Centre Pontoons
Door to door 9h 27mCO2 27.1 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee
Penzance to Cardiff ferry
Ferries from Penzance to Cardiff start at €16.29 and take 9h 27m at their fastest.
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Fares and seats move by the day. Price Penzance to Cardiff on the date you actually want, rather than on the date this page was built.
The Ferries from Penzance to Cardiff starts at €16.29 and takes 9h 27m door to door, run by 1 operator over 236 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.
- 9h 27mDoor to door
- 7h 57mMoving
- €21.78 to €39.38From
- 06:26 to 07:30First and last departure
- 5Per day
- 27.1 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.
€21.78 to €39.38 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.
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Buying this journey
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Fares by date
What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.
Typical fares
- about €39.38Fri18
- about €37.18Sat19
- about €37.74Sun20
- about €26.74Mon21
- about €26.73Tue22
- about €27.84Wed23
- about €28.94Thu24
- about €28.94Fri25
- about €28.38Sat26
- about €22.89Sun27
- about €23.98Mon28
- about €21.78Tue29
- about €24.53Wed30
- about €23.43Thu1
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
Ferry operators
| Operator | From | Fastest | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Brittany Ferries | €16.29 | 8h 29m | 33 km/h | Changeable | Bar, Bicycles, Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Toilets |
The ferry gets you into Cardiff. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.
A room in Cardiff for the night the ferry gets in
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When to book Penzance to Cardiff
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €20.6990 days
- €11.8960 days
- €15.7445 days
- €16.8430 days
- €21.7821 days
- €23.4314 days
- €28.947 days
- €37.743 days
- €39.381 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €11.89.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 231 percent. The dearest point is €39.38, 1 days out.
- What that means
- Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 60 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.
- €22.89Sun
- €23.98Mon
- €21.78Tue
- €24.53Wed
- €23.43Thu
- €28.94Fri
- €28.38Sat
Where you leave from and where you arrive
Penzance
Ferry
- Gwelva
- Isles of Scilly ferry
Cardiff
Ferry
- Cardiff Sailing Centre Pontoons
- City Centre Water Bus Stop
What the journey 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 236 km against 224 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 St Austell, Truro, Newquay, Bideford. The gap between arriving and leaving is 53 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 18 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 Penzance at 06:26 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 Penzance to Cardiff
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 Penzance to Cardiff take?
The Ferry from Penzance to Cardiff takes 9h 27m door to door, of which 7h 57m is spent moving. The route runs 236 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 Penzance to Cardiff cost?
The Ferry from Penzance to Cardiff starts at €16.29 for one passenger, as of 17 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 Penzance to Cardiff?
1 operators run the Ferry from Penzance to Cardiff: Brittany Ferries. 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 Penzance to Cardiff use?
The Ferry from Penzance to Cardiff leaves from Gwelva and arrives at Cardiff Sailing Centre Pontoons. 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 Penzance to Cardiff?
Fares for the Ferry from Penzance to Cardiff bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €11.89. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 231 percent, measured on 17 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
How much CO2 does the Ferry from Penzance to Cardiff produce?
The Ferry from Penzance to Cardiff produces about 27.1 kg of CO2 per passenger over 236 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 Penzance to Cardiff?
Operators on the Ferry from Penzance to Cardiff publish Bar, Bicycles, Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Toilets. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 9h 27m 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 Penzance to Cardiff on 17 September 2026: 236 km of route against 224 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €16.29, and 9h 27m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
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