St-Malo to Cherbourg ferry

Ferries from St-Malo to Cherbourg start at €23.43 and take 10h 46m at their fastest.

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The Ferries from St-Malo to Cherbourg starts at €23.43 and takes 10h 46m door to door, run by 1 operator over 257 km, with around 3 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 45 days before departure.

Checked 13 September 2026Priced for 29 September 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 10h 46mDoor to door
  • 8h 25mMoving
  • €23.43 to €40.49From
  • 07:30 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 3Per day
  • 35.4 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on 29 September 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€23.43 to €40.49 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.

Fares by date

What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.

Typical fares

  1. about €40.49Mon14
  2. about €36.09Tue15
  3. about €34.99Wed16
  4. about €38.29Thu17
  5. about €31.14Fri18
  6. about €34.99Sat19
  7. about €33.34Sun20
  8. about €25.09Mon21
  9. about €23.98Tue22
  10. about €28.94Wed23
  11. about €27.29Thu24
  12. about €31.14Fri25
  13. about €30.04Sat26
  14. about €23.43Sun27

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 29 September 2026

Cheapest€21.77
  1. Brittany Ferries BF721507:304h 43m12:13Brittany Ferries - St. Malo TerminalFerry Terminal of Ouistreham
  2. Brittany Ferries BF790413:043h 42m16:46Ferry Terminal of OuistrehamCHERBOURG

Changes at Hérouville-Saint-Clair, with 51 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 10h 46mCO2 29.6 kgChanges 1Changeable 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
Brittany FerriesNoneNone33 km/hChangeableBar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Toilets
  • Brittany Ferries

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

A hotel room

A room in Cherbourg for the night the ferry gets in

Sort by distance from Cherbourg railway station and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book St-Malo to Cherbourg

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

  1. €25.0990 days
  2. €22.8860 days
  3. €21.7745 days
  4. €21.7730 days
  5. €21.7721 days
  6. €23.4314 days
  7. €33.347 days
  8. €34.993 days
  9. €40.491 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €21.77.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 86 percent. The dearest point is €40.49, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 45 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. €23.43Sun
  2. €25.09Mon
  3. €23.98Tue
  4. €28.94Wed
  5. €27.29Thu
  6. €31.14Fri
  7. €30.04Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Saint-Malo

Ferry
  • Brittany Ferries - St. Malo Terminal
  • Condor Ferry - St. Malo Terminal
  • SAINT-MALO

Cherbourg

Ferry
  • CHERBOURG
  • Passerelle Cherbourg 2
  • Passerelle Cherbourg 4
The journey

What the journey actually looks like

Direct or connecting
0% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 100% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 257 km against 114 km in a straight line, a detour of 170 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Lannion, Hérouville-Saint-Clair, Vannes. The gap between arriving and leaving is 45 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 St-Malo at 07:30 and the last at 07:30, across 3 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about St-Malo to Cherbourg

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 St-Malo to Cherbourg take?

The Ferry from St-Malo to Cherbourg takes 10h 46m door to door, of which 8h 25m is spent moving. The route runs 257 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 St-Malo to Cherbourg cost?

The Ferry from St-Malo to Cherbourg starts at €23.43 for one passenger, as of 13 September 2026. A typical fare is €23.98. 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 St-Malo to Cherbourg?

1 operators run the Ferry from St-Malo to Cherbourg: Brittany Ferries. Between them they file around 3 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 St-Malo to Cherbourg use?

The Ferry from St-Malo to Cherbourg leaves from Brittany Ferries - St. Malo Terminal and arrives at CHERBOURG. 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 St-Malo to Cherbourg?

Fares for the Ferry from St-Malo to Cherbourg bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €21.77. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 86 percent, measured on 13 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Ferry from St-Malo to Cherbourg produce?

The Ferry from St-Malo to Cherbourg produces about 35.4 kg of CO2 per passenger over 257 km, which works out at roughly 138 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 St-Malo to Cherbourg?

Operators on the Ferry from St-Malo to Cherbourg publish Bar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Toilets. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 10h 46m 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 St-Malo to Cherbourg on 13 September 2026: 257 km of route against 114 km in a straight line, 3 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €23.43, and 10h 46m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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