Cheapest€44.89
- Irish Ferries IF268006:0719h01:07CHERBOURGDUBLIN
Door to door 20h 30mCO2 65.9 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee
Cherbourg to Dublin ferry
Ferries from Cherbourg to Dublin start at €44.89 and take 20h 30m at their fastest.
Check dates and fares
Fares and seats move by the day. Price Cherbourg to Dublin on the date you actually want, rather than on the date this page was built.
The Ferries from Cherbourg to Dublin starts at €44.89 and takes 20h 30m door to door, run by 1 operator over 573 km, with around 2 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.
- 20h 30mDoor to door
- 19hMoving
- €44.89 to €98.24From
- 19:30 to 19:30First and last departure
- 1Per day
- 65.9 kgCO2
First and last are the departures the operators themselves filed for September 17, 2026, across 1 services on the day.
€44.89 to €98.24 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.
19:3014:3019h
IRISH FERRIESVessel ISLE OF INISHEERDirect
CHERBOURG → DUBLIN
from €247.00seat
Fares by date
What the operator is charging, by departure date.
September 17, 2026
€247.00
IRISH FERRIES
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 September 29, 2026
Fastest€87.24
- Brittany Ferries BF482907:308h 56m16:26CHERBOURGGachet
- Aer Lingus AL661218:081h 26m19:34Nantes NTEDublin DUB
Changes at Nantes, with 102 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.
Door to door 14h 24mCO2 224.4 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes
Ferry operators
| Operator | From | Fastest | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Irish Ferries | €44.89 | 18h 7m | 33 km/h | Changeable | Bar, Bicycles, Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms |
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When to book Cherbourg to Dublin
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €42.6990 days
- €32.7960 days
- €41.5945 days
- €44.3430 days
- €44.8921 days
- €44.8914 days
- €57.547 days
- €80.643 days
- €74.041 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €32.79.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 146 percent. The most expensive point is €80.64, 3 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.
- €55.34Sun
- €59.19Mon
- €44.89Tue
- €60.84Wed
- €77.89Thu
- €66.89Fri
- €66.34Sat
Where you leave from and where you arrive
Cherbourg
Ferry
- CHERBOURG
- Passerelle Cherbourg 2
- Passerelle Cherbourg 4
Dublin
Ferry
- DUBLIN
- Dublin Ferryport
- Dublin Port Terminal 1
What the journey actually looks like
- Direct or connecting
- 50% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 50% involve one connection.
- How far it really runs
- The route covers 573 km against 521 km in a straight line, a detour of 10 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
- Where the change is
- Connections are made at Nantes. The gap between arriving and leaving is 102 minutes, of which about 14 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 10 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 Cherbourg at 06:07 and the last at 07:30, across 2 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
Questions about Cherbourg to Dublin
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 Cherbourg to Dublin take?
The Ferry from Cherbourg to Dublin takes 20h 30m door to door, of which 19h is spent moving. The route runs 573 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 Cherbourg to Dublin cost?
The Ferry from Cherbourg to Dublin starts at €44.89 for one passenger, as of September 15, 2026. A typical fare is €66.07. 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 Cherbourg to Dublin?
1 operators run the Ferry from Cherbourg to Dublin: Irish Ferries. Between them they file around 2 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 Cherbourg to Dublin use?
The Ferry from Cherbourg to Dublin leaves from CHERBOURG and arrives at DUBLIN. 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 Cherbourg to Dublin?
Fares for the Ferry from Cherbourg to Dublin bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €32.79. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 146 percent, measured on September 15, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
How much CO2 does the Ferry from Cherbourg to Dublin produce?
The Ferry from Cherbourg to Dublin produces about 65.9 kg of CO2 per passenger over 573 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 Cherbourg to Dublin?
Operators on the Ferry from Cherbourg to Dublin 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 30m 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 Cherbourg to Dublin on September 15, 2026: 573 km of route against 521 km in a straight line, 2 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €44.89, and 20h 30m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
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