Porto Empedocle to Ancona ferry

Ferries from Porto Empedocle to Ancona start at €44.34 and take 23h 23m at their fastest.

Porto EmpedoclePorto EmpedocleAnconaAncona
Ancona, Marche, Italy

The Ferries from Porto Empedocle to Ancona starts at €44.34 and takes 23h 23m door to door, run by 1 operator over 738 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 90 days before departure.

Checked 16 September 2026Priced for 6 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 23h 23mDoor to door
  • 21h 53mMoving
  • €58.64 to €128.49From
  • 06:24 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 5Per day
  • 84.9 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on 6 October 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€58.64 to €128.49 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.

Grimaldi runs this service and does not sell it here. AFerry takes the payment.

Buying this journey

AFerry 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 €121.34Thu17
  2. about €121.89Fri18
  3. about €128.49Sat19
  4. about €78.99Sun20
  5. about €75.14Mon21
  6. about €65.79Tue22
  7. about €68.54Wed23
  8. about €71.84Thu24
  9. about €73.49Fri25
  10. about €67.44Sat26
  11. about €74.59Sun27
  12. about €63.04Mon28
  13. about €58.64Tue29
  14. about €62.49Wed30

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.

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 6 October 2026

Cheapest€44.34
  1. Grimaldi G378606:2421h 53m04:17PORTO EMPEDOCLEANCONA

Door to door 23h 23mCO2 84.9 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Fastest€61.93
  1. Grimaldi G525207:303h 21m10:51PORTO EMPEDOCLEPALERMO
  2. VOLOTEA Airways VO340912:221h 14m13:36Palermo PMOAncona AOI

Changes at Palermo, with 91 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.

Door to door 8h 26mCO2 166.0 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes

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€44.3422h 44m33 km/hChangeableBar, Bicycles, Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Toilets
  • Grimaldi

The ferry gets you into Ancona. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.

A hotel room

A room in Ancona for the night the ferry gets in

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Booking window

When to book Porto Empedocle to Ancona

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

  1. €42.6990 days
  2. €47.0960 days
  3. €52.5945 days
  4. €48.7430 days
  5. €52.0421 days
  6. €62.4914 days
  7. €68.547 days
  8. €128.493 days
  9. €121.341 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €42.69.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 201 percent. The dearest point is €128.49, 3 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 90 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
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. €74.59Sun
  2. €63.04Mon
  3. €58.64Tue
  4. €62.49Wed
  5. €71.84Thu
  6. €73.49Fri
  7. €67.44Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Porto Empedocle

Ferry
  • PORTO EMPEDOCLE
  • Porto Empedocle

Ancona

Ferry
  • ANCONA
  • Ancona
  • Ancona Stazione Marittima
The journey

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 738 km against 703 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 Ischia, Procida, Formia, Palermo. The gap between arriving and leaving is 60 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 16 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 Porto Empedocle at 06:24 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 Porto Empedocle to Ancona

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 Porto Empedocle to Ancona take?

The Ferry from Porto Empedocle to Ancona takes 23h 23m door to door, of which 21h 53m is spent moving. The route runs 738 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 Porto Empedocle to Ancona cost?

The Ferry from Porto Empedocle to Ancona starts at €44.34 for one passenger, as of 16 September 2026. A typical fare is €51.49. 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 Porto Empedocle to Ancona?

1 operators run the Ferry from Porto Empedocle to Ancona: Grimaldi. 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 Porto Empedocle to Ancona use?

The Ferry from Porto Empedocle to Ancona leaves from PORTO EMPEDOCLE and arrives at ANCONA. 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 Porto Empedocle to Ancona?

Fares for the Ferry from Porto Empedocle to Ancona bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €42.69. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 201 percent, measured on 16 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Ferry from Porto Empedocle to Ancona produce?

The Ferry from Porto Empedocle to Ancona produces about 84.9 kg of CO2 per passenger over 738 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 Porto Empedocle to Ancona?

Operators on the Ferry from Porto Empedocle to Ancona publish Bar, Bicycles, Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Toilets. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 23h 23m 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 Porto Empedocle to Ancona on 16 September 2026: 738 km of route against 703 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €44.34, and 23h 23m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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