Compare trains, coaches, flights and ferries from Belfast to Derby. From €34.99, fastest 4h 2m, with the total price and every fee shown up front.
Travelling from Belfast to Derby costs €34.99 at the cheapest and takes 4h 2m door to door at the fastest, across 1 mode and 4 operators. The route covers 357 km. Cheapest is by Flight, fastest is by Flight.
Journey times below are door to door, so they include getting to the terminal and away from it at the other end. Fares are the cheapest we currently sell on 27 September 2026.
| Mode | Door to door | Moving | At the ends | From | CO2 | Per day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flight | 4h 2m | 52m | 3h 10m | €41.44 | 87.8 kg | 18 |
Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.
Changes at Liverpool, with 99 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.
Door to door 11h 13mCO2 31.1 kgChanges 1Changeable for a fee
Door to door 4h 2mCO2 87.8 kgChanges 0Fixed, no changes
Live from the operators' own published timetables, through the open transit feeds they publish. Times and services are real. Fares are modelled until our booking connectors are live.
| Operator | Service | Departs | Arrives | Takes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Goldline Express5 changes | X1 | 08:00 | 09:30 | 25h 30m |
| Dublin Express7 changes | 785 | 04:50 | 09:30 | 28h 40m |
| Dublin Express8 changes | 785 | 04:50 | 08:10 | 27h 20m |
| Goldline Express7 changes | X1 | 04:00 | 17:14 | 37h 14m |
| Goldline Express8 changes | X2 | 07:30 | 17:14 | 33h 44m |
| Dublin Express9 changes | 785 | 07:50 | 17:14 | 33h 24m |
Live from our own engine, refreshed on every request. The cheapest days for each way of travelling are marked.
| Cheapest fare by mode and day for Belfast to Derby | Sun13 Sept | Mon14 Sept | Tue15 Sept | Wed16 Sept | Thu17 Sept | Fri18 Sept | Sat19 Sept | Sun20 Sept | Mon21 Sept | Tue22 Sept | Wed23 Sept | Thu24 Sept | Fri25 Sept | Sat26 Sept |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ferry | €80.09 | €60.84 | €48.19 | €61.94 | €61.94 | €56.44 | €50.39 | €45.44 | €47.64 | €38.29 | €36.09 | €50.39 | €51.49 | €43.24 |
| Flight | €67.99 | €60.32 | €49.70 | €52.06 | €63.86 | €60.91 | €50.88 | €50.29 | €42.03 | €41.44 | €43.21 | €52.65 | €50.29 | €46.75 |
Cheapest day: 2026-09-27 · €34.99
Derby sits on the water, which usually settles which side of town you want to wake up on. Rooms are not ours to sell.
Hotels and flats near the centre, most of them with free cancellation, on a map that shows what is walkable.
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Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
The same journey priced on the fifteenth of each of the next six months.
Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.
The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.
The fare from EMA into Derby is the one price on this journey we cannot show you, because it is not ours.
Settled in advance, so the ride into Derby costs what it said it would rather than what the rank says.
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Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.
| Operator | From |
|---|---|
 ASL Airlines Belgium | €36.72 |
| easyJet | €36.13 |
 European Air Transport | €37.31 |
| Ryanair UK | €40.26 |
Every part of the total, so the number at checkout is the number here.
| Part | Amount | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Operator fare | €30.00 | 86% |
| Taxes | €3.00 | 9% |
| Our service fee | €1.99 | 6% |
| Total you pay | €34.99 | 100% |
The flight gets in hours before any room is ready. Holding a bag is not what we sell.
Shops, cafes and hotels that take luggage, with the opening hours on the map so you know what is still open when you come back.
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The fastest journey from Belfast to Derby takes 4h 2m door to door, of which 52m is spent moving, on the Flight. Most services take around 4h 4m, because that average includes slower stopping services and journeys with a connection. Times include reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end.
The cheapest fare from Belfast to Derby is €34.99, checked on 27 September 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €54.42. Both figures are the total for one passenger, including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so nothing is added at checkout.
The cheapest way from Belfast to Derby is by Flight, at €41.44 for one passenger on 27 September 2026. That journey takes 4h 2m 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.
Fares from Belfast to Derby bottom out around 60 days before departure, at €29.49. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the dearest lead time is 131 percent, measured on 27 September 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.
Tuesday is the cheapest day to depart from Belfast to Derby, at €38.29. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, checked on 27 September 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.
February is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from Belfast to Derby, at €28.39 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.
4 operators sell services from Belfast to Derby across 1 modes: ASL Airlines Belgium, easyJet, European Air Transport, Ryanair UK. 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.
80 percent of the services we sell from Belfast to Derby are direct. The rest connect at Manchester, Birkenhead, Liverpool, Leeds, with about 55 minutes between the two services. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is rebooked at no charge.
Services from Belfast to Derby by Flight leave from Belfast BHD and arrive at Derby EMA. Allow about 3h 10m 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.
0 of the 4 operators we sell from Belfast to Derby 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.
Observed service A carrier record shows this named operator serving this named pair, and we carry that through unchanged.
Schedules, seat counts and fares are generated by our own model until the supplier contracts are signed. Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance are real. We would rather say that on every page than let a modelled number pass for a filed one.
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Being on the water gives Derby a set of days out that do not start at a station. We do not sell those either.
Timed entry, guided walks and half-day trips out of Derby, with free cancellation on most of it.
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