Tunis to Palermo ferry

Ferries from Tunis to Palermo start at €26.19 and take 11h 41m at their fastest.

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The Ferries from Tunis to Palermo starts at €26.19 and takes 11h 41m door to door, run by 1 operator over 317 km, with around 1 departure a day. Fares bottom out about 30 days before departure.

Checked 14 September 2026Priced for 29 September 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 11h 41mDoor to door
  • 10h 11mMoving
  • €26.19 to €55.34From
  • 19:30 to 19:30First and last departure
  • 1Per day
  • 36.5 kgCO2

First and last are the departures the operators themselves filed for 17 September 2026, across 1 services on the day.

€26.19 to €55.34 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.

  1. 19:3007:3012h

    GRIMALDI LINESVessel MV CATANIADirect

    TUNISPALERMO

    from €48.00deck €373.00

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Fares by date

What the operator is charging, by departure date.

17 September 2026

€48.00

GRIMALDI LINES

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.

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 29 September 2026

Cheapest€19.59
  1. Grimaldi G715906:0710h 11m16:18TUNISPALERMO

Door to door 11h 41mCO2 36.5 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
Grimaldi€19.5910h 44m33 km/hChangeableBar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Toilets
  • Grimaldi

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

A hotel room

A room in Palermo for the night the ferry gets in

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Booking window

When to book Tunis to Palermo

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

  1. €31.1490 days
  2. €22.8960 days
  3. €24.5445 days
  4. €19.5930 days
  5. €20.1421 days
  6. €31.1414 days
  7. €30.597 days
  8. €49.843 days
  9. €55.341 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €19.59.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 182 percent. The dearest point is €55.34, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 30 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. €34.99Sun
  2. €30.59Mon
  3. €30.04Tue
  4. €26.19Wed
  5. €40.49Thu
  6. €28.39Fri
  7. €34.44Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Tunis

Ferry
  • TUNIS

Palermo

Ferry
  • PALERMO
  • Palermo (Liberty Lines)
  • Palermo Stazione Marittima
The journey

What the journey actually looks like

Direct or connecting
67% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 33% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 317 km against 317 km in a straight line, a detour of 2 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Cagliari. The gap between arriving and leaving is 103 minutes, of which about 14 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 9 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 Tunis at 06:07 and the last at 06:07, across 1 departure The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
The alternatives

Ferries against the other ways to make this journey

Door to door means the whole journey, including reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end. Fares are the cheapest sold on each mode.
ModeDoor to doorMovingAt the endsFromCO2Per day
Flight4h50m3h 10m€45.5780.2 kg2
Ferry11h 41m10h 11m1h 30m€26.1936.5 kg1

Questions about Tunis to Palermo

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 Tunis to Palermo take?

The Ferry from Tunis to Palermo takes 11h 41m door to door, of which 10h 11m is spent moving. The route runs 317 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 Tunis to Palermo cost?

The Ferry from Tunis to Palermo starts at €26.19 for one passenger, as of 14 September 2026. A typical fare is €19.59. 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 Tunis to Palermo?

1 operators run the Ferry from Tunis to Palermo: Grimaldi. 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 Tunis to Palermo use?

The Ferry from Tunis to Palermo leaves from TUNIS and arrives at PALERMO. 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 Tunis to Palermo?

Travelling from Tunis to Palermo by Flight costs €45.57 and takes 4h door to door, against 11h 41m 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 Tunis to Palermo?

Fares for the Ferry from Tunis to Palermo bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €19.59. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 182 percent, measured on 14 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Ferry from Tunis to Palermo produce?

The Ferry from Tunis to Palermo produces about 36.5 kg of CO2 per passenger over 317 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 Tunis to Palermo?

Operators on the Ferry from Tunis to Palermo publish Bar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Toilets. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 11h 41m 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.

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On this page
Every figure above was computed for Tunis to Palermo on 14 September 2026: 317 km of route against 317 km in a straight line, 1 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €26.19, and 11h 41m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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