Southampton to Chichester ferry

Ferries from Southampton to Chichester start at €11.88 and take 3h 23m at their fastest.

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The Ferries from Southampton to Chichester starts at €11.88 and takes 3h 23m door to door, run by 1 operator over 47 km, with around 3 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 90 days before departure.

Checked 14 September 2026Priced for 15 September 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 3h 23mDoor to door
  • 1h 53mMoving
  • €11.88From
  • 06:46 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 3Per day
  • 5.4 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on 15 September 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

Fares by date

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

Typical fares

  1. about €11.88Tue15
  2. about €11.88Wed16
  3. about €11.88Thu17
  4. about €11.88Fri18
  5. about €11.88Sat19
  6. about €11.88Sun20
  7. about €11.88Mon21
  8. about €11.88Tue22
  9. about €11.88Wed23
  10. about €11.88Thu24
  11. about €11.88Fri25
  12. about €11.88Sat26
  13. about €11.88Sun27
  14. about €11.88Mon28

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 15 September 2026

Cheapest€11.88
  1. Brittany Ferries BF225506:461h 53m08:39Hythe PierItchenor Foot Ferry

Door to door 3h 23mCO2 5.4 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
Brittany Ferries€11.883h 9m33 km/hChangeableBar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Toilets
  • Brittany Ferries

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

A hotel room

A room in Chichester for the night the ferry gets in

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Booking window

When to book Southampton to Chichester

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

  1. €11.8890 days
  2. €11.8860 days
  3. €11.8845 days
  4. €11.8830 days
  5. €11.8821 days
  6. €11.8814 days
  7. €11.887 days
  8. €11.883 days
  9. €11.881 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €11.88.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 0 percent. The dearest point is €11.88, 90 days out.
What that means
Today sits outside the cheap window, which opens around 90 days before departure. There is no advantage to booking this minute.
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. €11.88Sun
  2. €11.88Mon
  3. €11.88Tue
  4. €11.88Wed
  5. €11.88Thu
  6. €11.88Fri
  7. €11.88Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Southampton

Ferry
  • Hythe Pier
  • SOUTHAMPTON
  • Town Quay

Chichester

Ferry
  • Itchenor Foot Ferry
The journey

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 47 km against 44 km in a straight line, a detour of 7 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Gosport, Cowes. The gap between arriving and leaving is 92 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 11 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 Southampton at 06:46 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 Southampton to Chichester

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 Southampton to Chichester take?

The Ferry from Southampton to Chichester takes 3h 23m door to door, of which 1h 53m is spent moving. The route runs 47 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 Southampton to Chichester cost?

The Ferry from Southampton to Chichester starts at €11.88 for one passenger, as of 14 September 2026. A typical fare is €21.77. 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 Southampton to Chichester?

1 operators run the Ferry from Southampton to Chichester: 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 Southampton to Chichester use?

The Ferry from Southampton to Chichester leaves from Hythe Pier and arrives at Itchenor Foot Ferry. 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 Southampton to Chichester?

Fares for the Ferry from Southampton to Chichester bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €11.88. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 0 percent, measured on 14 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Ferry from Southampton to Chichester produce?

The Ferry from Southampton to Chichester produces about 5.4 kg of CO2 per passenger over 47 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 Southampton to Chichester?

Operators on the Ferry from Southampton to Chichester publish Bar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Toilets. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 3h 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 Southampton to Chichester on 14 September 2026: 47 km of route against 44 km in a straight line, 3 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €11.88, and 3h 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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