Cheapest€11.88
- Brittany Ferries BF669106:2452m07:16Hythe PierCowes Red Jet Terminal
Door to door 2h 22mCO2 2.1 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee
Southampton to Cowes ferry
Ferries from Southampton to Cowes start at €11.88 and take 2h 22m at their fastest.
Check dates and fares
Fares and seats move by the day. Price Southampton to Cowes on the date you actually want, rather than on the date this page was built.
The Ferries from Southampton to Cowes starts at €11.88 and takes 2h 22m door to door, run by 1 operator over 18 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 90 days before departure.
- 2h 22mDoor to door
- 52mMoving
- €11.88From
- 06:24 to 07:30First and last departure
- 5Per day
- 2.1 kgCO2
First and last are taken from the services we sell on 18 September 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.
Book your crossing
Brittany Ferries runs this service and does not sell it here. AFerry takes the payment.
Buying this journey
AFerry holds the sailings between these two ports, with the crossing times and the fares.
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Fares by date
What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.
Typical fares
- about €11.88Fri18
- about €11.88Sat19
- about €11.88Sun20
- about €11.88Mon21
- about €11.88Tue22
- about €11.88Wed23
- about €11.88Thu24
- about €11.88Fri25
- about €11.88Sat26
- about €11.88Sun27
- about €11.88Mon28
- about €11.88Tue29
- about €11.88Wed30
- about €11.88Thu1
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.
The cheapest and the fastest on 18 September 2026
Ferry operators
| Operator | From | Fastest | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Brittany Ferries | €11.88 | 2h 21m | 33 km/h | Changeable | Bar, Bicycles, Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Toilets |
The ferry gets you into Cowes. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.
A room in Cowes for the night the ferry gets in
Sort by distance from Cowes railway station and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.
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When to book Southampton to Cowes
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €11.8890 days
- €11.8860 days
- €11.8845 days
- €11.8830 days
- €11.8821 days
- €11.8814 days
- €11.887 days
- €11.883 days
- €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.
Which departure day costs least
Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
- €11.88Sun
- €11.88Mon
- €11.88Tue
- €11.88Wed
- €11.88Thu
- €11.88Fri
- €11.88Sat
Where you leave from and where you arrive
Southampton
Ferry
- Hythe Pier
- SOUTHAMPTON
- Town Quay
Cowes
Ferry
- Cowes Red Jet Terminal
- Red Funnel
- WEST COWES
What the journey 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 18 km against 17 km in a straight line, a detour of 6 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
- Where the change is
- Connections are made at Portsmouth, Bournemouth, Christchurch, Chichester. The gap between arriving and leaving is 52 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 18 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 06:24 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 Southampton to Cowes
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 Cowes take?
The Ferry from Southampton to Cowes takes 2h 22m door to door, of which 52m is spent moving. The route runs 18 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 Cowes cost?
The Ferry from Southampton to Cowes starts at €11.88 for one passenger, as of 17 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 Cowes?
1 operators run the Ferry from Southampton to Cowes: Brittany Ferries. 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 Southampton to Cowes use?
The Ferry from Southampton to Cowes leaves from Hythe Pier and arrives at Cowes Red Jet Terminal. 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 Cowes?
Fares for the Ferry from Southampton to Cowes 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 17 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
How much CO2 does the Ferry from Southampton to Cowes produce?
The Ferry from Southampton to Cowes produces about 2.1 kg of CO2 per passenger over 18 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 Cowes?
Operators on the Ferry from Southampton to Cowes publish Bar, Bicycles, Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Toilets. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 2h 22m 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 Cowes on 17 September 2026: 18 km of route against 17 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €11.88, and 2h 22m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
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Day trips out of Cowes and across United Kingdom
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