Chichester to Exeter ferry

Ferries from Chichester to Exeter start at €19.04 and take 7h 57m at their fastest.

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The Ferries from Chichester to Exeter starts at €19.04 and takes 7h 57m door to door, run by 1 operator over 203 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked September 9, 2026Priced for September 27, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 7h 57mDoor to door
  • 6h 27mMoving
  • €19.04From
  • 23.3 kgCO2
Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on September 27, 2026

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

Cheapest€16.84
  1. Brittany Ferries BF614106:116h 27m12:38Itchenor Foot FerryExeter Quay

Door to door 7h 57mCO2 23.3 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Fastest€38.83
  1. Brittany Ferries BF938607:301h 1m08:31Itchenor Foot FerryPortsmouth International Port
  2. South Western Railway SW750509:431h 24m11:07Portsmouth HarbourExeter Central

Changes at Portsmouth, with 72 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.

Door to door 4h 44mCO2 8.6 kgChanges 1Changeable 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
Brittany Ferries€16.847h 32m33 km/hChangeableBar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms
  • Brittany Ferries

The trip ends at Exeter Central. Everything past the gates belongs to somebody else, the rooms included.

A hotel room

A room in Exeter for the night the ferry gets in

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Booking window

When to book Chichester to Exeter

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

  1. €16.2990 days
  2. €12.4460 days
  3. €14.0945 days
  4. €15.1930 days
  5. €19.5921 days
  6. €19.5914 days
  7. €27.837 days
  8. €34.993 days
  9. €36.091 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €12.44.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 190 percent. The most expensive point is €36.09, 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. €23.44Sun
  2. €19.04Mon
  3. €19.04Tue
  4. €19.59Wed
  5. €23.44Thu
  6. €21.79Fri
  7. €23.43Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

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

Chichester

Ferry
  • Itchenor Foot Ferry

Exeter

Ferry
  • Exeter Quay
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 203 km against 194 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 Christchurch, New Milton, Portsmouth, Gosport. The gap between arriving and leaving is 53 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 Chichester at 06:11 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 Chichester to Exeter

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 Chichester to Exeter take?

The Ferry from Chichester to Exeter takes 7h 57m door to door, of which 6h 27m is spent moving. The route runs 203 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 Chichester to Exeter cost?

The Ferry from Chichester to Exeter starts at €19.04 for one passenger, checked on September 27, 2026. A typical fare is €21.78. 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 Chichester to Exeter?

1 operators run the Ferry from Chichester to Exeter: Brittany Ferries. 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 Chichester to Exeter use?

The Ferry from Chichester to Exeter leaves from Itchenor Foot Ferry and arrives at Exeter Quay. 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 Chichester to Exeter?

Fares for the Ferry from Chichester to Exeter bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €12.44. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 190 percent, measured on September 27, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Ferry from Chichester to Exeter produce?

The Ferry from Chichester to Exeter produces about 23.3 kg of CO2 per passenger over 203 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 Chichester to Exeter?

Operators on the Ferry from Chichester to Exeter publish Bar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 7h 57m 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.

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On this page
Every figure above was computed for Chichester to Exeter on September 9, 2026: 203 km of route against 194 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €19.04, and 7h 57m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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