Ferries from Santa Pola to Tarifa start at €31.14 and take 17h 11m at their fastest.
Fares and seats move by the day. Price Santa Pola to Tarifa on the date you actually want, rather than on the date this page was built.
The Ferries from Santa Pola to Tarifa starts at €31.14 and takes 17h 11m door to door, run by 2 operators over 534 km, with around 6 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.
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.
€37.19 to €82.29 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.
AFerry holds the sailings between these two ports, with the crossing times and the fares.
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What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.
Typical fares
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.
Changes at Motril, with 66 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.
Door to door 18h 46mCO2 61.5 kgChanges 1Changeable for a fee
Door to door 17h 11mCO2 61.4 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee
| Operator | From | Fastest |
|---|---|---|
 Baleària | €35.54 | 16h 56m |
 Grimaldi | €32.24 | 16h 49m |
The ferry gets you into Tarifa. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.
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The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
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.
The Ferry from Santa Pola to Tarifa takes 17h 11m door to door, of which 15h 41m is spent moving. The route runs 534 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.
The Ferry from Santa Pola to Tarifa starts at €31.14 for one passenger, as of 17 September 2026. A typical fare is €38.29. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.
2 operators run the Ferry from Santa Pola to Tarifa: Baleària, Grimaldi. Between them they file around 6 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.
The Ferry from Santa Pola to Tarifa leaves from Santa Pola and arrives at TARIFA. 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.
Fares for the Ferry from Santa Pola to Tarifa bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €27.84. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 196 percent, measured on 17 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
The Ferry from Santa Pola to Tarifa produces about 61.4 kg of CO2 per passenger over 534 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.
Operators on the Ferry from Santa Pola to Tarifa publish Bar, Bicycles, Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Toilets. That is what 2 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 17h 11m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.
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.
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Being on the water gives Tarifa a set of days out that do not start at a station. We do not sell those either.
Day trips that leave Tarifa in the morning and cover a good part of Spain by evening.
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