Cheapest€15.74
- Brittany Ferries BF257706:267h 49m14:15InstowPORTSMOUTH
Door to door 9h 19mCO2 26.6 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee
Bideford to Portsmouth ferry
Ferries from Bideford to Portsmouth start at €18.49 and take 9h 19m at their fastest.
Check dates and fares
Fares and seats move by the day. Price Bideford to Portsmouth on the date you actually want, rather than on the date this page was built.
The Ferries from Bideford to Portsmouth starts at €18.49 and takes 9h 19m door to door, run by 1 operator over 231 km, with around 3 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 21 days before departure.
- 9h 19mDoor to door
- 7h 49mMoving
- €18.49 to €39.39From
- 06:26 to 07:30First and last departure
- 3Per day
- 26.6 kgCO2
First and last are taken from the services we sell on October 5, 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.
€18.49 to €39.39 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.
Fares by date
What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.
Typical fares
- about €32.23Wed16
- about €39.39Thu17
- about €28.39Fri18
- about €34.44Sat19
- about €32.79Sun20
- about €26.19Mon21
- about €21.24Tue22
- about €22.34Wed23
- about €22.89Thu24
- about €28.94Fri25
- about €28.39Sat26
- about €22.89Sun27
- about €24.54Mon28
- about €18.49Tue29
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.
The cheapest and the fastest on October 5, 2026
Ferry operators
| Operator | From | Fastest | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Brittany Ferries | €15.74 | 8h 23m | 33 km/h | Changeable | Bar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms |
The ferry gets you into Portsmouth. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.
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When to book Bideford to Portsmouth
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €19.5990 days
- €19.5960 days
- €18.4945 days
- €19.5930 days
- €16.2921 days
- €18.4914 days
- €21.247 days
- €28.393 days
- €32.231 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 21 days ahead, at €16.29.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 98 percent. The most expensive point is €32.23, 1 days out.
- What that means
- Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 21 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.
- €22.89Sun
- €24.54Mon
- €18.49Tue
- €22.34Wed
- €22.89Thu
- €28.39Fri
- €28.39Sat
Where you leave from and where you arrive
Bideford
Ferry
- Instow
Portsmouth
Ferry
- PORTSMOUTH
- Portsmouth Harbour
- Portsmouth International Port
What the journey actually looks like
- Direct or connecting
- 33% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 67% involve one connection.
- How far it really runs
- The route covers 231 km against 220 km in a straight line, a detour of 5 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
- Where the change is
- Connections are made at New Milton, Christchurch. The gap between arriving and leaving is 92 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 11 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is ours to fix and you are rebooked at no charge.
- First and last departure
- The first service of the day leaves Bideford at 06:26 and the last at 07:30, across 3 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
Questions about Bideford to Portsmouth
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 Bideford to Portsmouth take?
The Ferry from Bideford to Portsmouth takes 9h 19m door to door, of which 7h 49m is spent moving. The route runs 231 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 Bideford to Portsmouth cost?
The Ferry from Bideford to Portsmouth starts at €18.49 for one passenger, as of September 15, 2026. A typical fare is €23.43. 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 Bideford to Portsmouth?
1 operators run the Ferry from Bideford to Portsmouth: Brittany Ferries. 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 Bideford to Portsmouth use?
The Ferry from Bideford to Portsmouth leaves from Instow and arrives at PORTSMOUTH. 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 Bideford to Portsmouth?
Fares for the Ferry from Bideford to Portsmouth bottom out around 21 days ahead, at €16.29. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 98 percent, measured on September 15, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
How much CO2 does the Ferry from Bideford to Portsmouth produce?
The Ferry from Bideford to Portsmouth produces about 26.6 kg of CO2 per passenger over 231 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 Bideford to Portsmouth?
Operators on the Ferry from Bideford to Portsmouth publish Bar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 9h 19m 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 Bideford to Portsmouth on September 15, 2026: 231 km of route against 220 km in a straight line, 3 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €18.49, and 9h 19m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
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