Ferries across The Balkans

236 routes and 15 operators across 3 countries Fares and journey times below come from the same engine that answers the search box.

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236 Ferries routes run across The Balkans, reaching 23 places in 3 countries through 15 operators On the 16 busiest of them, priced on 4 October 2026, the cheapest fare is €11.88 and the fastest journey is 1h 58m door to door. A median route runs 217 km.

Checked 4 October 2026Priced for 4 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

The network

Ferries in The Balkans, in numbers

What we actually sell, counted rather than claimed.

  • 236Routes we sell
  • 59Corridors
  • 23Places served
  • 3Countries
  • 15Operators
  • 76Domestic routes
  • 16Cross border routes
  • 144Routes out of the region
  • 217 kmMedian route
  • 798 kmLongest route
Door to door

How the modes compare across The Balkans

Every mode measured on the same 16 corridors in The Balkans, priced on 4 October 2026 for one passenger.

Median fare, median door-to-door time and median carbon per passenger, over the corridors of The Balkans where each mode runs.
ModeCorridors pricedFromDoor to doorCO2
Ferry13€11.884h 25m12.0 kg
Flight1€55.609h 9m94.8 kg
Routes

The corridors that matter in The Balkans

Ranked by how much service actually runs, then priced. The country and city pages carry the rest.

The busiest routes we sell in The Balkans, priced on 4 October 2026 for one passenger with every fee included.
RouteFromFastestDistance
Bol to Split ferry€11.882h 51m33 km
Korčula to Split ferry€11.884h 25m83 km
Mlini to Cavtat ferry€11.881h 58m5 km
Vis to Split ferry€11.883h 30m54 km
Milna to Korčula ferry€11.884h 2m69 km
Sali to Zadar ferry€11.882h 27m20 km
Sutivan to Split ferry€11.882h 16m14 km
Durrës to Bari ferry€17.948h 38m217 km
Cava de' Tirreni to Vlorë ferry€27.2914h 19m404 km
Shkoder to Naples ferry€30.5915h 25m457 km
Pozzuoli to Vlorë ferry€40.4817h 51m456 km
Castellammare di Stabia to Vlorë ferry€40.4817h 26m423 km
Ancona to Vlorë ferry€64.1421h 27m604 km
Split to Messina ferryNoneNone596 km
Salerno to Durrës ferryNoneNone398 km
Vlorë to Split ferryNoneNone421 km
Countries

Countries in The Balkans

Every country in The Balkans we sell in, most routes first.

Routes, places and carriers in each country of The Balkans.
CountryRoutesPlacesOperators
Croatia1402111
Albania10455
Montenegro831
Booking window

When to book in The Balkans

The same search run at seven lead times across 3 corridors in The Balkans.

  1. €30.593 days
  2. €25.097 days
  3. €17.9421 days
  4. €14.0945 days
  5. €16.8484 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €14.09.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 54 percent. The dearest point is €30.59, 3 days out.
Catchment

How far people travel to get here

Every origin we sell by Ferries, grouped by how far it is in a straight line.

Straight line distance from each origin we sell, not the distance the route runs.
DistanceRoutesShareNearest of them
Under 200 km11649%Cavtat, 5 km
200 to 600 km9641%Bari, 217 km
600 to 1,500 km2410%Ancona, 604 km
Carriers

Ferry operators

The carriers with the largest networks inside The Balkans.

Ferry destinations

Other ways to travel across The Balkans

Common questions about Ferries across The Balkans

How many Ferries routes does Orlero sell across The Balkans?

236 of them, across 3 countries reaching 23 places through 15 operators

How much does travelling by Ferries cost in The Balkans?

On the 16 busiest Ferries corridors in The Balkans, priced on 4 October 2026, the lowest fare is €11.88 and the median is €11.88.

Is Ferries the fastest way across The Balkans?

On the corridors we priced, ferry takes a median of 4h 25m door to door, against 9h 9m by Flight. Both figures include reaching the terminal and leaving it at the other end.

Which countries in The Balkans have Ferries routes we sell?

Croatia, Albania, Montenegro.

Who runs the Ferries services in The Balkans?

ANEK Lines, Grandi Navi Veloci, Kapetan Luka-krilo, SNAV, Tp Line, Krilo Shipping Company, among 15 carriers we sell across The Balkans.

When should I book travel across The Balkans?

Fares on the corridors we sampled bottom out about 45 days before departure. Booking then rather than 3 days ahead was 54 percent cheaper on this sample.

How far apart are the places we sell in The Balkans?

The median route runs 217 km in a straight line and the shortest is 5 km. The longest we sell is 798 km, from Messina to Rijeka.

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.

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

Regions
A region is a set of countries, and a route counts for it when either end is inside it. Countries are grouped from their ISO code alone, so the map grows with the data and nothing here is drawn by hand.
The sample
Fares, journey times and carbon are measured on the 16 highest ranked corridors in this region, spread across it rather than taken from the top, so the figures describe the region and not its busiest country.
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