Barcelona to Genoa ferry
Ferries from Barcelona to Genoa start at €45.99 and take 20h 6m at their fastest.
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Fares and seats move by the day. Price Barcelona to Genoa on the date you actually want, rather than on the date this page was built.
The Ferries from Barcelona to Genoa starts at €45.99 and takes 20h 6m door to door, run by 1 operator over 646 km, with around 3 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.
- 20h 6mDoor to door
- 18h 36mMoving
- €47.09 to €124.09From
- 10:00 to 10:00First and last departure
- 1Per day
- 74.3 kgCO2
First and last are the departures the operators themselves filed for September 21, 2026, across 1 services on the day.
€47.09 to €124.09 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.
Sailings on September 21, 2026
Real sailings, with the fares the operator is charging. Check the season before you count on one.
10:0009:0023h
GRANDI NAVI VELOCIVessel EXCELLENTDirect
BARCELONA → GENOA
from €74.00deck €77.00 €83.00 €83.00
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Grandi Navi Veloci runs this service and does not sell it here. AFerry takes the payment.
Buying this trip
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Fares by date
What the operator is charging, by departure date.
September 21, 2026
€74.00
GRANDI NAVI VELOCI
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 cheapest and the fastest on October 5, 2026
No bookable itinerary on the day this page prices, so none is shown.
Ferry operators
| Operator | From | Fastest | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Grandi Navi Veloci | €37.19 | 19h 59m | 33 km/h | Changeable | Bar, Bicycles, Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms |
The ferry gets you into Genoa. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.
A room in Genoa for the night the ferry gets in
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When to book Barcelona to Genoa
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €30.9890 days
- €23.8360 days
- €26.0345 days
- €29.3330 days
- €40.3321 days
- €42.5314 days
- €55.737 days
- €65.633 days
- €78.281 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €23.83.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 228 percent. The most expensive point is €78.28, 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.
Which departure day costs least
Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
- €52.98Sun
- €35.93Mon
- €34.83Tue
- €38.13Wed
- €42.53Thu
- €55.18Fri
- €48.03Sat
Where you leave from and where you arrive
Barcelona
- BARCELONA
- Barcelona
- Barcelona Moll de Barcelona
Genoa
- GENOA
- GNV Genova
- Genova Stazione Marittima
What the journey looks like
- Direct or connecting
- 73% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 27% involve one connection.
- How far it really runs
- The route covers 646 km against 646 km in a straight line, a detour of 1 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
- Where the change is
- Connections are made at Marseille, Nice, Turin, Bastia. The gap between arriving and leaving is 63 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 15 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.
- First and last departure
- The first service of the day leaves Barcelona at 06:20 and the last at 17:26, across 3 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
Ferries against the other ways to make this journey
| Mode | Door to door | Moving | At the ends | From | CO2 | Per day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flight | 4h 29m | 1h 19m | 3h 10m | €59.14 | 163.8 kg | 4 |
| Train | 5h 19m | 4h 35m | 44m | €69.09 | 21.3 kg | 5 |
| Coach | 9h 49m | 9h 5m | 44m | €28.23 | 17.4 kg | 3 |
| Ferry | 20h 6m | 18h 36m | 1h 30m | €45.99 | 74.3 kg | 3 |
Questions about Barcelona to Genoa
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 Barcelona to Genoa take?
The Ferry from Barcelona to Genoa takes 20h 6m door to door, of which 18h 36m is spent moving. The route runs 646 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 Barcelona to Genoa cost?
The Ferry from Barcelona to Genoa starts at €45.99 for one passenger, as of September 17, 2026. A typical fare is €48.19. 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 Barcelona to Genoa?
1 operators run the Ferry from Barcelona to Genoa: Grandi Navi Veloci. Between them they file around 3 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.
Which terminal does the Ferry from Barcelona to Genoa use?
The Ferry from Barcelona to Genoa leaves from BARCELONA and arrives at GENOA. 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.
Is the Ferry the best way from Barcelona to Genoa?
Traveling from Barcelona to Genoa by Coach costs €28.23 and takes 9h 49m door to door, against 20h 6m 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.
When should I book the Ferry from Barcelona to Genoa?
Fares for the Ferry from Barcelona to Genoa bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €23.83. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 228 percent, measured on September 17, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
How much CO2 does the Ferry from Barcelona to Genoa produce?
The Ferry from Barcelona to Genoa produces about 74.3 kg of CO2 per passenger over 646 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 Barcelona to Genoa?
Operators on the Ferry from Barcelona to Genoa publish Bar, Bicycles, Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 20h 6m 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.
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
- On this page
- Every figure above was computed for Barcelona to Genoa on September 17, 2026: 646 km of route against 646 km in a straight line, 3 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €45.99, and 20h 6m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
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