Lipari to Palermo runs about 1 times a day, with the first departure around 07:50 and the last around 07:50. One passenger pays between €11.89 and €14.09, every fee included, depending on the operator and the way you travel. The fastest door to door is 6h 20m over 159 km, on services run by 1 operator across 1 mode.
What one seat costs
The spread between the cheapest and dearest typical fare on this corridor, across 1 operator and 1 way of making the journey. The operator sets the price on the day.
Typical fares
€11.89 to €14.09
- 144%Moves across the booking window
When it runs, leaving Lipari
First and last sailing as the operators themselves filed them for 17 September 2026, counted in this direction only. The return crossing runs on its own timetable and this page does not speak for it.
- 07:50First departure
- 07:50Last departure
- 1Services per day
- 100%Run direct
Sailings on 17 September 2026
Real sailings, with the fares the operator is charging. Check the season before you count on one.
07:5011:353h 45m
LIBERTY LINESVessel LIBERTY LINESDirect
LIPARI → PALERMO
from €47.43 €57.43
E ticketPets carried
Fares on the crossing run from €47.43 to €57.43 on 17 September 2026, depending on the sailing and on whether you take a deck space, a seat or a cabin.
Liberty Lines 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 the operator is charging, by departure date.
17 September 2026
€47.43
LIBERTY 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.
The ferry gets you into Palermo. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.
A room in Palermo for the night the ferry gets in
Sort by distance from Palermo Centrale and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.
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When to book Lipari to Palermo
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €17.3990 days
- €14.0960 days
- €11.8845 days
- €11.8830 days
- €11.8921 days
- €15.1914 days
- €20.147 days
- €20.693 days
- €28.941 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €11.88.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 144 percent. The dearest point is €28.94, 1 days out.
- What that means
- Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 45 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 30 days ahead. You are inside that window.
This corridor, specifically
Facts that apply to Lipari to Palermo 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
159 km
144 km as the crow flies, 10% further by the route services actually take. The bearing runs west.
Who lives at each end
4,263 → 648,260
Population at the departure city and at the arrival city, which is usually what decides how often anything runs.
How we know
Observed
Every operator on this corridor is named in a carrier record.
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
- 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 159 km against 144 km in a straight line, a detour of 10 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
- Where the change is
- Connections are made at Messina, Reggio Calabria, Santa Marina Salina, Milazzo. The gap between arriving and leaving is 69 minutes, of which about 14 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 14 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.
The fare from PMO into Palermo is the one price on this journey we cannot show you, because it is not ours.
A car waiting when you land in Palermo
Settled in advance, so the ride into Palermo costs what it said it would rather than what the rank says.
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Who runs this route
The ferry gets in hours before any room is ready. Holding a bag is not what we sell.
Left luggage near Palermo Centrale
Most of the points near Palermo Centrale open before the first train and shut after the last one.
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Questions about Lipari 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 it take to get from Lipari to Palermo?
The fastest journey from Lipari to Palermo takes 6h 20m door to door, of which 4h 51m is spent moving, on the ferry. Most services take around 6h 39m, 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 Lipari to Palermo?
The cheapest fare from Lipari to Palermo is €11.89, as of 13 September 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €17.39. 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 Lipari to Palermo?
The cheapest way from Lipari to Palermo is by ferry, at €14.09 for one passenger on 4 October 2026. That journey takes 6h 21m 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 Lipari to Palermo?
Fares from Lipari to Palermo bottom out around 45 days before departure, at €11.88. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the dearest lead time is 144 percent, measured on 13 September 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.
Which day of the week is cheapest for Lipari to Palermo?
Monday is the cheapest day to depart from Lipari to Palermo, at €14.09. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, as of 13 September 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.
Which month is cheapest for Lipari to Palermo?
November is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from Lipari to Palermo, at €11.88 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 Lipari to Palermo?
1 operators sell services from Lipari to Palermo across 1 mode: Liberty Lines. 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 Lipari to Palermo?
20 percent of the services we sell from Lipari to Palermo are direct. The rest connect at Messina, Reggio Calabria, Santa Marina Salina, Milazzo, with about 69 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 Lipari to Palermo use?
Services from Lipari to Palermo by ferry leave from LIPARI and arrive at PALERMO. 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 Lipari to Palermo?
1 of the 1 operators we sell from Lipari to Palermo 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.
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.
Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon, Distances
- On this page
- Every figure above was computed for Lipari to Palermo on 13 September 2026: 159 km of route against 144 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €11.89, and 6h 20m 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 Palermo a set of days out that do not start at a station. We do not sell those either.
Day trips out of Palermo and across Italy
Day trips that leave Palermo in the morning and cover a good part of Italy by evening.
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The two ends, compared
Lipari reaches 6 places in 1 countries on services we hold, over distances from 13 to 144 km. Palermo reaches 129 places in 23 countries, from 68 to 2,382 km.
Other ways to make this journey
Leaving Lipari
- 6Places you can leave for
- 1Countries
- 3Operators
Arriving in Palermo
Leaving Palermo
- 129Places you can leave for
- 23Countries
- 38Operators