Ferries from El Puerto de Santa María to Altea start at €35.53 and take 20h 50m at their fastest.
Fares and seats move by the day. Price El Puerto de Santa María to Altea on the date you actually want, rather than on the date this page was built.
The Ferries from El Puerto de Santa María to Altea starts at €35.53 and takes 20h 50m door to door, run by 1 operator over 618 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 45 days before departure.
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.
€42.69 to €89.44 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.
Baleària runs this service and does not sell it here. AFerry takes the payment.
AFerry holds the sailings between these two ports, with the crossing times and the fares.
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What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.
Typical fares
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.
Changes at Málaga, with 84 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.
Door to door 22h 4mCO2 72.3 kgChanges 1Changeable for a fee
Door to door 20h 50mCO2 71.1 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee
| Operator | From | Fastest | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Baleària | €41.04 | 19h 15m | 33 km/h | Changeable | Bar, Bicycles, Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms |
The ferry gets you into Altea. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.
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The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
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.
The Ferry from El Puerto de Santa María to Altea takes 20h 50m door to door, of which 19h 20m is spent moving. The route runs 618 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.
The Ferry from El Puerto de Santa María to Altea starts at €35.53 for one passenger, as of September 20, 2026. A typical fare is €43.23. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.
1 operators run the Ferry from El Puerto de Santa María to Altea: Baleària. 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.
The Ferry from El Puerto de Santa María to Altea leaves from Terminal Marítima Metropolitana de El Puerto de Santa María and arrives at Embarque Catamaran Mundo Marino Altea. 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.
Fares for the Ferry from El Puerto de Santa María to Altea bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €30.04. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 156 percent, measured on September 20, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
The Ferry from El Puerto de Santa María to Altea produces about 71.1 kg of CO2 per passenger over 618 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.
Operators on the Ferry from El Puerto de Santa María to Altea 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 50m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.
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.
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Being on the water gives Altea a set of days out that do not start at a station. We do not sell those either.
Day trips that leave Altea in the morning and cover a good part of Spain by evening.
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