Alicante to Tarifa runs about 2 times a day, with the first departure around 07:30 and the last around 07:30. One passenger pays €41.58, every fee included. The fastest door to door is 18h 45m over 550 km, on services run by 1 operator across 1 mode.
What one seat costs
Every operator we hold on this corridor starts at €41.58, so there is no spread to show.
Typical fares
€41.58
- 108%Moves across the booking window
When it runs, leaving Alicante
No operator has filed a timetable for this direction yet, so the first and last departure below follow the pattern of the corridor. Read them as the shape of the service day rather than as times to turn up for.
- 07:30First departure
- 07:30Last departure
- 2Services per day
- 0%Run direct
No sea route
There is no ferry between Alicante and Tarifa. Both are ports, and the carriers that sell sailings from each of them connect neither to the other. The land options above are how this journey is actually made.
Fares by date
What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.
Typical fares
- about €74.03Tue15
- about €61.94Wed16
- about €81.74Thu17
- about €67.99Fri18
- about €74.59Sat19
- about €69.08Sun20
- about €49.28Mon21
- about €50.93Tue22
- about €48.18Wed23
- about €65.78Thu24
- about €64.14Fri25
- about €61.39Sat26
- about €49.83Sun27
- about €41.58Mon28
- about €48.18Tue29
- about €40.48Wed30
- about €48.73Thu1
- about €42.68Fri2
- about €52.58Sat3
- about €42.13Sun4
- about €39.38Mon5
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 ferry gets you into Tarifa. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.
A room in Tarifa for the night the ferry gets in
Sort by distance from Terminal de Autobuses de Tarifa and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.
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When to book Alicante to Tarifa
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €47.0890 days
- €39.3860 days
- €45.4345 days
- €39.9330 days
- €39.3821 days
- €41.5814 days
- €49.287 days
- €81.743 days
- €74.031 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €39.38.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 108 percent. The dearest point is €81.74, 3 days out.
- What that means
- Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 60 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Book now Fares on this route are lowest around 21 days ahead. You are inside that window.
This corridor, specifically
Facts that apply to Alicante to Tarifa and to no other route on the site.
Clocks
Both ends keep the same time, so the arrival is the departure plus the journey.
The shape of it
550 km
523 km as the crow flies, 5% further by the route services actually take. The bearing runs south-west.
Who lives at each end
348,901 → 18,169
Population at the departure city and at the arrival city, which is usually what decides how often anything runs.
How we know
0/2
2 of these connections were inferred from service-area overlap rather than observed in a timetable. We would rather say so.
The route
What the journey actually looks like
Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.
- Direct or connecting
- 0% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 100% involve one connection.
- How far it really runs
- The route covers 550 km against 523 km in a straight line, a detour of 5 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
- Where the change is
- Connections are made at La Línea de la Concepción, Marbella. The gap between arriving and leaving is 63 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 15 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.
Who runs this route
Tarifa is small enough to see in an afternoon, which is easier without the luggage. Storing it is not our business.
Left luggage near Terminal de Autobuses de Tarifa
Most of the points near Terminal de Autobuses de Tarifa open before the first train and shut after the last one.
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Questions about Alicante to Tarifa
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 it take to get from Alicante to Tarifa?
The fastest journey from Alicante to Tarifa takes 18h 45m door to door, of which 16h 44m is spent moving, on the ferry. Most services take around 20h 15m, because that average includes slower stopping services and journeys with a connection. Times include reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end.
How much does it cost to travel from Alicante to Tarifa?
The cheapest fare from Alicante to Tarifa is €39.38, as of 14 September 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €54.23. Both figures are the total for one passenger, including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so nothing is added at checkout.
What is the cheapest way to get from Alicante to Tarifa?
The cheapest way from Alicante to Tarifa is by ferry, at €41.58 for one passenger on 5 October 2026. That journey takes 19h 38m door to door. Cheaper is rarely faster on this corridor, and the comparison table on this page shows what each mode costs against what it saves.
When should I book Alicante to Tarifa?
Fares from Alicante to Tarifa bottom out around 60 days before departure, at €39.38. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the dearest lead time is 108 percent, measured on 14 September 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.
Which day of the week is cheapest for Alicante to Tarifa?
Monday is the cheapest day to depart from Alicante to Tarifa, at €41.58. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, as of 14 September 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.
Which month is cheapest for Alicante to Tarifa?
February is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from Alicante to Tarifa, at €35.53 for one passenger. Each month is priced on its fifteenth, so the comparison is like for like rather than a mix of weekends and midweek departures.
Who runs services from Alicante to Tarifa?
1 operators sell services from Alicante to Tarifa across 1 mode: Baleària. Journey times, fares and fare conditions differ between them, and the operator table on this page compares all of them on speed, flexibility and what is provided on board.
Is there a direct service from Alicante to Tarifa?
0 percent of the services we sell from Alicante to Tarifa are direct. The rest connect at La Línea de la Concepción, Marbella, with about 63 minutes between the two services. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is rebooked at no charge.
Which station or terminal do services from Alicante to Tarifa use?
Services from Alicante to Tarifa by ferry leave from ALICANTE and arrive at TARIFA. Allow about 1h 30m in total for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one, which is already included in every door to door time on this page.
Can I change or refund a ticket from Alicante to Tarifa?
1 of the 1 operators we sell from Alicante to Tarifa allow a change or a refund. A change on a changeable fare costs €5.00. The operator table on this page names which is which, and the condition is shown again before you pay.
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, Distances
- On this page
- Every figure above was computed for Alicante to Tarifa on 14 September 2026: 550 km of route against 523 km in a straight line, 2 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €39.38, and 18h 45m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
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 out of Tarifa and across Spain
Day trips that leave Tarifa in the morning and cover a good part of Spain by evening.
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The two ends, compared
Alicante reaches 231 places in 32 countries on services we hold, over distances from 19 to 3,667 km. Tarifa reaches 48 places in 2 countries, from 19 to 877 km.
Other ways to make this journey
Leaving Alicante
- 231Places you can leave for
- 32Countries
- 58Operators
Arriving in Tarifa
Leaving Tarifa
- 48Places you can leave for
- 2Countries
- 2Operators