Bergen to Kristiansand ferry

Ferries from Bergen to Kristiansand start at €21.79 and take 10h 8m at their fastest.

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The Ferries from Bergen to Kristiansand starts at €21.79 and takes 10h 8m door to door, run by 1 operator over 292 km, with around 7 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 30 days before departure.

Checked September 13, 2026Priced for September 28, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 10h 8mDoor to door
  • 8h 38mMoving
  • €21.79 to €37.74From
  • 14:00 to 14:00First and last departure
  • 1Per day
  • 33.6 kgCO2

First and last are the departures the operators themselves filed for September 17, 2026, across 1 services on the day.

€21.79 to €37.74 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 17, 2026

Real sailings, with the fares the operator is charging. Check the season before you count on one.

  1. 14:0013:2523h 25m

    FJORD LINEVessel MS STAVANGERFJORDDirect

    BERGENKRISTIANSAND

    from €201.00 €319.00

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Fares by date

What the operator is charging, by departure date.

September 17, 2026

€201.00

FJORD LINE

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.

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on September 28, 2026

Cheapest€19.04
  1. Fjord Line FL390006:088h 38m14:46BERGENKRISTIANSAND

Door to door 10h 8mCO2 33.6 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
Fjord Line€19.0410h 2m33 km/hChangeableBar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms
  • Fjord Line

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

A hotel room

A room in Kristiansand for the night the ferry gets in

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Booking window

When to book Bergen to Kristiansand

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

  1. €23.9990 days
  2. €21.2460 days
  3. €15.7445 days
  4. €14.6430 days
  5. €21.2421 days
  6. €24.5414 days
  7. €31.147 days
  8. €34.993 days
  9. €36.641 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €14.64.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 150 percent. The most expensive point is €36.64, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 30 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. €24.54Sun
  2. €21.79Mon
  3. €23.44Tue
  4. €22.34Wed
  5. €27.84Thu
  6. €25.64Fri
  7. €31.69Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Bergen

Ferry
  • BERGEN
  • Bergen
  • Bergen Skoltegrunnskaien

Kristiansand

Ferry
  • KRISTIANSAND
  • Kristiansand
  • Kristiansand Ferjeterminal
The journey

What the journey actually looks like

Direct or connecting
76% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 24% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 292 km against 292 km in a straight line, a detour of 2 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Hirtshals, Asker, Stavanger, Drammen. The gap between arriving and leaving is 52 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 18 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 Bergen at 06:08 and the last at 18:59, across 7 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
The alternatives

Ferries against the other ways to make this journey

Door to door means the whole journey, including reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end. Fares are the cheapest sold on each mode.
ModeDoor to doorMovingAt the endsFromCO2Per day
Flight3h 58m48m3h 10m€36.1374.0 kg8
Ferry10h 8m8h 38m1h 30m€21.7933.6 kg7

Questions about Bergen to Kristiansand

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 Bergen to Kristiansand take?

The Ferry from Bergen to Kristiansand takes 10h 8m door to door, of which 8h 38m is spent moving. The route runs 292 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 Bergen to Kristiansand cost?

The Ferry from Bergen to Kristiansand starts at €21.79 for one passenger, as of September 13, 2026. A typical fare is €22.34. 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 Bergen to Kristiansand?

1 operators run the Ferry from Bergen to Kristiansand: Fjord Line. Between them they file around 7 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 Bergen to Kristiansand use?

The Ferry from Bergen to Kristiansand leaves from BERGEN and arrives at KRISTIANSAND. 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 Bergen to Kristiansand?

Traveling from Bergen to Kristiansand by Flight costs €36.13 and takes 3h 58m door to door, against 10h 8m 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 Bergen to Kristiansand?

Fares for the Ferry from Bergen to Kristiansand bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €14.64. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 150 percent, measured on September 13, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Ferry from Bergen to Kristiansand produce?

The Ferry from Bergen to Kristiansand produces about 33.6 kg of CO2 per passenger over 292 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 Bergen to Kristiansand?

Operators on the Ferry from Bergen to Kristiansand publish Bar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 10h 8m 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 Bergen to Kristiansand on September 13, 2026: 292 km of route against 292 km in a straight line, 7 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €21.79, and 10h 8m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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