Rota to Santa Pola ferry

Ferries from Rota to Santa Pola start at €40.49 and take 18h 25m at their fastest.

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The Ferries from Rota to Santa Pola starts at €40.49 and takes 18h 25m door to door, run by 1 operator over 568 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 21 days before departure.

Checked 15 September 2026Priced for 6 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 18h 25mDoor to door
  • 16h 55mMoving
  • €40.49 to €88.33From
  • 06:14 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 5Per day
  • 65.3 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.

€40.49 to €88.33 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

  1. about €67.99Wed16
  2. about €88.33Thu17
  3. about €78.44Fri18
  4. about €69.09Sat19
  5. about €64.69Sun20
  6. about €57.54Mon21
  7. about €45.99Tue22
  8. about €49.29Wed23
  9. about €58.09Thu24
  10. about €67.44Fri25
  11. about €59.74Sat26
  12. about €49.84Sun27
  13. about €44.89Mon28
  14. about €40.49Tue29

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€32.79
  1. Baleària B682407:306h 4m13:34Terminal Marítima RotaEstación Marítima de Málaga
  2. Baleària B322814:3512h 2m02:37Estación Marítima de MálagaSanta Pola

Changes at Málaga, with 61 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 20h 37mCO2 66.5 kgChanges 1Changeable for a fee

Fastest€39.94
  1. Baleària B949706:1416h 55m23:09Terminal Marítima RotaSanta Pola

Door to door 18h 25mCO2 65.3 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
Baleària€39.9418h 4m33 km/hChangeableBar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Toilets
  • Baleària

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

A hotel room

A room in Santa Pola for the night the ferry gets in

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Booking window

When to book Rota to Santa Pola

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

  1. €40.4990 days
  2. €33.3460 days
  3. €36.6445 days
  4. €36.6430 days
  5. €32.7921 days
  6. €40.4914 days
  7. €45.997 days
  8. €78.443 days
  9. €67.991 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 21 days ahead, at €32.79.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 139 percent. The dearest point is €78.44, 3 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 21 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. €49.84Sun
  2. €44.89Mon
  3. €40.49Tue
  4. €49.29Wed
  5. €58.09Thu
  6. €67.44Fri
  7. €59.74Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Rota

Ferry
  • Terminal Marítima Rota

Santa Pola

Ferry
  • Santa Pola
  • Tabarca
The journey

What the journey actually 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 568 km against 541 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 Marbella, Málaga, Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Motril. The gap between arriving and leaving is 56 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 17 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 Rota at 06:14 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 Rota to Santa Pola

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 Rota to Santa Pola take?

The Ferry from Rota to Santa Pola takes 18h 25m door to door, of which 16h 55m is spent moving. The route runs 568 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 Rota to Santa Pola cost?

The Ferry from Rota to Santa Pola starts at €40.49 for one passenger, as of 15 September 2026. A typical fare is €34.98. 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 Rota to Santa Pola?

1 operators run the Ferry from Rota to Santa Pola: Baleària. 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 Rota to Santa Pola use?

The Ferry from Rota to Santa Pola leaves from Terminal Marítima Rota and arrives at Santa Pola. 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 Rota to Santa Pola?

Fares for the Ferry from Rota to Santa Pola bottom out around 21 days ahead, at €32.79. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 139 percent, measured on 15 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Ferry from Rota to Santa Pola produce?

The Ferry from Rota to Santa Pola produces about 65.3 kg of CO2 per passenger over 568 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 Rota to Santa Pola?

Operators on the Ferry from Rota to Santa Pola publish Bar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Toilets. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 18h 25m 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 Rota to Santa Pola on 15 September 2026: 568 km of route against 541 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €40.49, and 18h 25m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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