Ferries from Ancona to Catania start at €47.09 and take 21h 32m at their fastest.
The Ferries from Ancona to Catania starts at €47.09 and takes 21h 32m door to door, run by 1 operator over 693 km, with around 10 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 90 days before departure.
Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.
Changes at Naples, with 92 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.
Door to door 17h 16mCO2 48.0 kgChanges 1Changeable for a fee
Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.
| Operator | From | Fastest | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Grimaldi | €41.04 | 21h 17m | 33 km/h | Changeable | Bar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms |
The ferry gets you into Catania. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.
Hotels and apartments near downtown, most of them with free cancellation, on a map that shows what is walkable.
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The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.
Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.
The same corridor, door to door, with every mode that runs it.
| Mode | Door to door | Moving | At the ends | From | CO2 | Per day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flight | 4h 29m | 1h 19m | 3h 10m | €77.43 | 175.4 kg | 8 |
| Ferry | 21h 32m | 20h 2m | 1h 30m | €47.09 | 79.7 kg | 10 |
The questions people actually ask about this trip, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.
The Ferry from Ancona to Catania takes 21h 32m door to door, of which 20h 2m is spent moving. The route runs 693 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.
The Ferry from Ancona to Catania starts at €47.09 for one passenger, checked on September 30, 2026. A typical fare is €52.32. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.
1 operators run the Ferry from Ancona to Catania: Grimaldi. Between them they file around 10 departures a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.
The Ferry from Ancona to Catania leaves from Ancona Stazione Marittima and arrives at Catania Porto. 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.
Traveling from Ancona to Catania by Flight costs €77.43 and takes 4h 29m door to door, against 21h 32m 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.
Fares for the Ferry from Ancona to Catania bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €38.84. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 169 percent, measured on September 30, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
The Ferry from Ancona to Catania produces about 79.7 kg of CO2 per passenger over 693 km, which works out at roughly 115 grams per passenger kilometer. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveler, not for the vehicle.
Operators on the Ferry from Ancona to Catania publish Bar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 21h 32m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.
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 modeled number pass for a filed one.
Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon
Our job ends at the platform. What fills the days in Catania afterward does not belong to us.
The tickets worth having in advance, because the line at the door is usually the whole morning.
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