Carloforte to Livorno ferry

Ferries from Carloforte to Livorno start at €33.34 and take 19h 12m at their fastest.

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The Ferries from Carloforte to Livorno starts at €33.34 and takes 19h 12m door to door, run by 1 operator over 544 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 30 days before departure.

Checked September 20, 2026Priced for October 6, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 19h 12mDoor to door
  • 17h 42mMoving
  • €43.79 to €75.69From
  • 06:24 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 5Per day
  • 12.5 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on October 6, 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€43.79 to €75.69 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Typical for this corridor. The operator sets the price on the day.

Departure times on this route

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Book your crossing

Grimaldi runs this service and does not sell it here. Direct Ferries takes the payment.

Buying this trip

Direct Ferries holds the sailings between these two ports, with the crossing times and the fares.

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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 €75.69Mon21
  2. about €59.74Tue22
  3. about €62.49Wed23
  4. about €66.34Thu24
  5. about €65.24Fri25
  6. about €61.94Sat26
  7. about €69.09Sun27
  8. about €45.43Mon28
  9. about €43.79Tue29
  10. about €46.54Wed30
  11. about €46.54Thu1
  12. about €56.99Fri2
  13. about €47.64Sat3
  14. about €45.44Sun4

Based on what this route has cost recently. The live fare is confirmed when you book.

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on October 6, 2026

Cheapest€33.34
  1. Grimaldi G453006:2417h 42m00:06CARLOFORTELIVORNO

Door to door 19h 12mCO2 12.5 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Lowest CO2€37.19
  1. Grimaldi G910707:307h 14m14:44CARLOFORTEMolo 9
  2. Grimaldi G310716:219h 29m01:50Molo 9LIVORNO

Changes at Olbia, with 97 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 19h 50mCO2 12.3 kgChanges 1Changeable 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
Grimaldi€33.3417h 20m33 km/hChangeableBar, Bicycles, Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms
  • Grimaldi

The ferry gets you into Livorno. These two partners take it from there, and the bed is theirs to book.

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A room in Livorno for the night the ferry gets in

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Booking window

When to book Carloforte to Livorno

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

  1. €45.4490 days
  2. €38.2960 days
  3. €29.4945 days
  4. €28.9430 days
  5. €46.5421 days
  6. €45.4414 days
  7. €69.097 days
  8. €62.493 days
  9. €75.691 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €28.94.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 162 percent. The most expensive point is €75.69, 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. €46.54Sun
  2. €45.43Mon
  3. €43.79Tue
  4. €46.54Wed
  5. €46.54Thu
  6. €56.99Fri
  7. €47.64Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Carloforte

Ferry
  • CARLOFORTE
  • Carloforte
  • Portovesme

Livorno

Ferry
  • LIVORNO
  • Livorno Porto Mediceo
  • Toremar
The journey

What the journey looks like

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 544 km against 518 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 La Maddalena, Olbia, Portoferraio, Alghero. The gap between arriving and leaving is 89 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 Carloforte at 06:24 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 Carloforte to Livorno

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 Carloforte to Livorno take?

The Ferry from Carloforte to Livorno takes 19h 12m door to door, of which 17h 42m is spent moving. The route runs 544 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 Carloforte to Livorno cost?

The Ferry from Carloforte to Livorno starts at €33.34 for one passenger, as of September 20, 2026. A typical fare is €38.29. 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 Carloforte to Livorno?

1 operators run the Ferry from Carloforte to Livorno: 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 Carloforte to Livorno use?

The Ferry from Carloforte to Livorno leaves from CARLOFORTE and arrives at LIVORNO. 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 Carloforte to Livorno?

Fares for the Ferry from Carloforte to Livorno bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €28.94. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 162 percent, measured on September 20, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Ferry from Carloforte to Livorno produce?

The Ferry from Carloforte to Livorno produces about 12.5 kg of CO2 per passenger over 544 km, which works out at roughly 23 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 Carloforte to Livorno?

Operators on the Ferry from Carloforte to Livorno publish Bar, Bicycles, Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 19h 12m 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 The operators listed publish a service area covering both places. That evidences the corridor rather than a named service.

Prices come from the supplier wherever we hold a live quote. Elsewhere we show an indicative price built from the real distance, the real operator and a fare curve over lead time, day of the week and season. Those are labeled Estimated fare and cannot be booked.

Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Carloforte to Livorno on September 20, 2026: 544 km of route against 518 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €33.34, and 19h 12m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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