Bilbao to Tarifa ferry

Ferries from Bilbao to Tarifa start at €63.04 and take 30h 29m at their fastest.

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The Ferries from Bilbao to Tarifa starts at €63.04 and takes 30h 29m door to door, run by 1 operator over 880 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked September 11, 2026Priced for September 30, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 30h 29mDoor to door
  • 28h 59mMoving
  • €63.04From
  • 101.2 kgCO2
Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on September 30, 2026

Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.

Cheapest€56.44
  1. Grimaldi G802707:3013h 14m20:44Bilbao Terminal de GetxoBarca pasaje
  2. Baleària B746522:0413h 54m11:58Barca pasajeTerminal Marítima de Tarifa

Changes at Toledo, with 80 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 29h 58mCO2 101.3 kgChanges 1Changeable for a fee

Lowest CO2€66.89
  1. Grimaldi G157506:3828h 59m11:37Bilbao Terminal de GetxoTerminal Marítima de Tarifa

Door to door 30h 29mCO2 101.2 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Carriers

Ferry operators

Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.

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
Grimaldi€58.6426h 37m33 km/hChangeableBar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms
  • Grimaldi

Tarifa sits on the water, which usually settles which side of town you want to wake up on. Rooms are not ours to sell.

A hotel room

A room in Tarifa for the night the ferry gets in

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Booking window

When to book Bilbao to Tarifa

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

  1. €70.1990 days
  2. €43.2460 days
  3. €43.7945 days
  4. €64.6930 days
  5. €80.0921 days
  6. €82.2814 days
  7. €94.947 days
  8. €91.093 days
  9. €127.931 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €43.24.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 196 percent. The most expensive point is €127.93, 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. €75.69Sun
  2. €67.44Mon
  3. €63.04Tue
  4. €65.79Wed
  5. €85.59Thu
  6. €82.28Fri
  7. €94.94Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.

Bilbao

Ferry
  • Bilbao Terminal de Getxo
  • Pío Baroja plaza

Tarifa

Ferry
  • Terminal Marítima de Tarifa
The journey

What the journey actually looks like

Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.

Direct or connecting
20% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 80% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 880 km against 838 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 Marbella, Toledo, Algeciras, La Línea de la Concepción. The gap between arriving and leaving is 54 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 17 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 Bilbao at 06:38 and the last at 07:30, across 5 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Bilbao to Tarifa

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 Bilbao to Tarifa take?

The Ferry from Bilbao to Tarifa takes 30h 29m door to door, of which 28h 59m is spent moving. The route runs 880 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 Bilbao to Tarifa cost?

The Ferry from Bilbao to Tarifa starts at €63.04 for one passenger, checked on September 30, 2026. A typical fare is €66.89. 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 Bilbao to Tarifa?

1 operators run the Ferry from Bilbao to Tarifa: Grimaldi. Between them they file around 5 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 Bilbao to Tarifa use?

The Ferry from Bilbao to Tarifa leaves from Bilbao Terminal de Getxo and arrives at Terminal Marítima de Tarifa. 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 Bilbao to Tarifa?

Fares for the Ferry from Bilbao to Tarifa bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €43.24. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 196 percent, measured on September 30, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Ferry from Bilbao to Tarifa produce?

The Ferry from Bilbao to Tarifa produces about 101.2 kg of CO2 per passenger over 880 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 Bilbao to Tarifa?

Operators on the Ferry from Bilbao to Tarifa publish Bar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 30h 29m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.

Where these numbers come from

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.

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

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Bilbao to Tarifa on September 11, 2026: 880 km of route against 838 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €63.04, and 30h 29m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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