Cheapest€20.69
- Caronte & Tourist CT521106:559h 27m16:22SALERNO (ALL PORTS)MESSINA
Door to door 10h 57mCO2 35.9 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee
Salerno to Messina ferry
Ferries from Salerno to Messina start at €23.44 and take 10h 57m at their fastest.
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Fares and seats move by the day. Price Salerno to Messina on the date you actually want, rather than on the date this page was built.
The Ferries from Salerno to Messina starts at €23.44 and takes 10h 57m door to door, run by 1 operator over 312 km, with around 1 departure a day. Fares bottom out about 21 days before departure.
- 10h 57mDoor to door
- 9h 27mMoving
- €23.44 to €42.14From
- 14:30 to 14:30First and last departure
- 1Per day
- 35.9 kgCO2
First and last are the departures the operators themselves filed for 17 September 2026, across 1 services on the day.
€23.44 to €42.14 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 17 September 2026
Real sailings, with the fares the operator is charging. Check the season before you count on one.
14:3023:309h
CARONTE & TOURISTVessel CARTOURDirect
SALERNO MOLO PONENTE → MESSINA
from €37.50deck €41.50 €116.50 €129.50
Fares by date
What the operator is charging, by departure date.
17 September 2026
€37.50
CARONTE & TOURIST
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 30 September 2026
Ferry operators
| Operator | From | Fastest | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caronte & Tourist | €20.69 | 10h 36m | 33 km/h | Changeable | Bar, Bicycles, Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Toilets |
The ferry gets you into Messina. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.
A room in Messina for the night the ferry gets in
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When to book Salerno to Messina
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €30.0490 days
- €21.7960 days
- €22.8945 days
- €22.8930 days
- €20.6921 days
- €25.0914 days
- €28.947 days
- €40.493 days
- €39.391 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 21 days ahead, at €20.69.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 96 percent. The dearest point is €40.49, 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.
Which departure day costs least
Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
- €34.99Sun
- €25.09Mon
- €25.09Tue
- €26.74Wed
- €36.64Thu
- €28.39Fri
- €32.24Sat
Where you leave from and where you arrive
Salerno
Ferry
- SALERNO (ALL PORTS)
- Salerno
- Salerno Stazione Marittima
Messina
Ferry
- MESSINA
- MESSINA (ALL PORTS)
- Messina (Blu Jet)
- Messina Rada San Francesco
What the journey actually looks like
- Direct or connecting
- 33% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 67% involve one connection.
- How far it really runs
- The route covers 312 km against 284 km in a straight line, a detour of 10 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
- Where the change is
- Connections are made at Nicastro, Cosenza, Lamezia Terme, Reggio Calabria. The gap between arriving and leaving is 55 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. 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 Salerno at 06:55 and the last at 06:55, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Train | 3h 11m | 2h 27m | 44m | €46.54 | 10.3 kg | 5 |
| Ferry | 10h 57m | 9h 27m | 1h 30m | €23.44 | 35.9 kg | 1 |
Questions about Salerno to Messina
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 Salerno to Messina take?
The Ferry from Salerno to Messina takes 10h 57m door to door, of which 9h 27m is spent moving. The route runs 312 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 Salerno to Messina cost?
The Ferry from Salerno to Messina starts at €23.44 for one passenger, as of 14 September 2026. A typical fare is €20.69. 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 Salerno to Messina?
1 operators run the Ferry from Salerno to Messina: Caronte & Tourist. 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 Salerno to Messina use?
The Ferry from Salerno to Messina leaves from SALERNO (ALL PORTS) and arrives at MESSINA. 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 Salerno to Messina?
Travelling from Salerno to Messina by Train costs €46.54 and takes 3h 11m door to door, against 10h 57m 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 Salerno to Messina?
Fares for the Ferry from Salerno to Messina bottom out around 21 days ahead, at €20.69. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 96 percent, measured on 14 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
How much CO2 does the Ferry from Salerno to Messina produce?
The Ferry from Salerno to Messina produces about 35.9 kg of CO2 per passenger over 312 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 Salerno to Messina?
Operators on the Ferry from Salerno to Messina publish Bar, Bicycles, Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Toilets. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 10h 57m 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 Salerno to Messina on 14 September 2026: 312 km of route against 284 km in a straight line, 1 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €23.44, and 10h 57m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
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