Balikpapan to Sampalan ferry

Ferries from Balikpapan to Sampalan start at €53.69 and take 27h 26m at their fastest.

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The Ferries from Balikpapan to Sampalan starts at €53.69 and takes 27h 26m door to door, run by 1 operator over 877 km, with around 1 departure a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked September 17, 2026Priced for October 7, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 27h 26mDoor to door
  • 25h 56mMoving
  • €67.44 to €169.19From
  • 06:19 to 06:19First and last departure
  • 1Per day
  • 100.9 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on October 7, 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€67.44 to €169.19 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Worked out from this corridor rather than held for anybody. The operator sets the price on the day.

Book your crossing

Pelni runs this service and does not sell it here. Bookaway takes the payment.

Buying this trip

Bookaway lists departures for Balikpapan to Sampalan on your date, and you pay on their side.

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Fares by date

What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.

Typical fares

  1. about €169.19Fri18
  2. about €147.19Sat19
  3. about €111.99Sun20
  4. about €80.64Mon21
  5. about €107.04Tue22
  6. about €109.79Wed23
  7. about €110.34Thu24
  8. about €102.64Fri25
  9. about €109.79Sat26
  10. about €97.14Sun27
  11. about €67.44Mon28
  12. about €67.44Tue29
  13. about €73.49Wed30
  14. about €80.09Thu1

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.

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on October 7, 2026

Cheapest€53.69
  1. Pelni P807606:1925h 56m08:15Semayang Balikpapan PortNUSA PENIDA (ALL PORTS)

Door to door 27h 26mCO2 100.9 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Carriers

Ferry operators

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorFromFastestTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
Pelni€53.6926h 30m33 km/hChangeableBar, Bicycles, Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms
  • Pelni

The ferry gets you into Sampalan. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.

A hotel room

A room in Sampalan for the night the ferry gets in

Sort by distance from NUSA PENIDA (ALL PORTS) and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Balikpapan to Sampalan

The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.

  1. €52.5990 days
  2. €50.3960 days
  3. €56.4445 days
  4. €70.1930 days
  5. €69.0921 days
  6. €80.0914 days
  7. €110.347 days
  8. €111.993 days
  9. €169.191 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €50.39.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 236 percent. The most expensive point is €169.19, 1 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.
Day of the week

Which departure day costs least

Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.

  1. €97.14Sun
  2. €67.44Mon
  3. €67.44Tue
  4. €73.49Wed
  5. €80.09Thu
  6. €102.64Fri
  7. €109.79Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Balikpapan

Ferry
  • Semayang Balikpapan Port
  • Pelabuhan ferry Kariangau

Sampalan

Ferry
  • NUSA PENIDA (ALL PORTS)
  • Nusa Penida
  • Nusa Penida (Sampalan) ferry port
  • SAMPALAN
The journey

What the journey looks like

How far it really runs
The route covers 877 km against 835 km in a straight line, a detour of 5 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Balikpapan at 06:19 and the last at 06:19, across 1 departure The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Balikpapan to Sampalan

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.

How long does the Ferry from Balikpapan to Sampalan take?

The Ferry from Balikpapan to Sampalan takes 27h 26m door to door, of which 25h 56m is spent moving. The route runs 877 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.

How much does the Ferry from Balikpapan to Sampalan cost?

The Ferry from Balikpapan to Sampalan starts at €53.69 for one passenger, as of September 17, 2026. A typical fare is €53.69. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.

Who runs the Ferry from Balikpapan to Sampalan?

1 operators run the Ferry from Balikpapan to Sampalan: Pelni. Between them they file around 1 departure a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.

Which terminal does the Ferry from Balikpapan to Sampalan use?

The Ferry from Balikpapan to Sampalan leaves from Semayang Balikpapan Port and arrives at NUSA PENIDA (ALL PORTS). 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.

When should I book the Ferry from Balikpapan to Sampalan?

Fares for the Ferry from Balikpapan to Sampalan bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €50.39. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 236 percent, measured on September 17, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Ferry from Balikpapan to Sampalan produce?

The Ferry from Balikpapan to Sampalan produces about 100.9 kg of CO2 per passenger over 877 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.

What is provided on board the Ferry from Balikpapan to Sampalan?

Operators on the Ferry from Balikpapan to Sampalan publish Bar, Bicycles, Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 27h 26m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.

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

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Balikpapan to Sampalan on September 17, 2026: 877 km of route against 835 km in a straight line, 1 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €53.69, and 27h 26m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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