Le Havre to Bordeaux ferry
Ferries from Le Havre to Bordeaux start at €39.39 and take 18h 56m at their fastest.
The Ferries from Le Havre to Bordeaux starts at €39.39 and takes 18h 56m door to door, run by 1 operator over 520 km, with around 4 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.
- 18h 56mDoor to door
- 17h 26mMoving
- €39.39From
- 59.8 kgCO2
The cheapest and the fastest on September 28, 2026
Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.
No bookable itinerary on the day this page prices, so none is shown.
Ferry operators
Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.
| Operator | From | Fastest | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Brittany Ferries | €39.94 | 16h 27m | 33 km/h | Changeable | Bar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms |
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Rooms within reach of Bordeaux Saint Jean
Hotels and apartments near downtown, most of them with free cancellation, on a map that shows what is walkable.
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When to book Le Havre to Bordeaux
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €29.3390 days
- €24.3860 days
- €24.3845 days
- €26.0330 days
- €29.3321 days
- €29.3314 days
- €40.337 days
- €47.483 days
- €48.031 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €24.38.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 97 percent. The most expensive point is €48.03, 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.
Which departure day costs least
Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
- €29.33Sun
- €29.88Mon
- €30.98Tue
- €33.18Wed
- €49.84Thu
- €39.23Fri
- €38.68Sat
Where you leave from and where you arrive
The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.
Le Havre
- Terminal de la Citadelle
- Visite du Port
Bordeaux
- Cité du Vin
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
- 56% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 44% involve one connection.
- How far it really runs
- The route covers 520 km against 520 km in a straight line, a detour of 1 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
- Where the change is
- Connections are made at Niort, Fontenay-le-Comte, Rochefort, Angers. The gap between arriving and leaving is 46 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 20 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 Le Havre at 06:42 and the last at 07:30, across 4 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
Ferries against the other ways to make this journey
The same corridor, door to door, with every mode that runs it.
| Mode | Door to door | Moving | At the ends | From | CO2 | Per day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flight | 4h 17m | 1h 7m | 3h 10m | €66.81 | 131.9 kg | 1 |
| Train | 4h 30m | 3h 46m | 44m | €72.94 | 17.2 kg | 2 |
| Coach | 7h 41m | 6h 57m | 44m | €29.33 | 14.0 kg | 2 |
| Ferry | 18h 56m | 17h 26m | 1h 30m | €39.39 | 59.8 kg | 4 |
Questions about Le Havre to Bordeaux
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 Le Havre to Bordeaux take?
The Ferry from Le Havre to Bordeaux takes 18h 56m door to door, of which 17h 26m is spent moving. The route runs 520 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 Le Havre to Bordeaux cost?
The Ferry from Le Havre to Bordeaux starts at €39.39 for one passenger, checked on September 13, 2026. A typical fare is €43.24. 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 Le Havre to Bordeaux?
1 operators run the Ferry from Le Havre to Bordeaux: Brittany Ferries. Between them they file around 4 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 Le Havre to Bordeaux use?
The Ferry from Le Havre to Bordeaux leaves from Terminal de la Citadelle and arrives at Cité du Vin. 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.
Is the Ferry the best way from Le Havre to Bordeaux?
Traveling from Le Havre to Bordeaux by Coach costs €29.33 and takes 7h 41m door to door, against 18h 56m by Ferry. Which is better depends on whether the money or the hours matter more on this trip. The comparison table on this page shows every mode side by side.
When should I book the Ferry from Le Havre to Bordeaux?
Fares for the Ferry from Le Havre to Bordeaux bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €24.38. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 97 percent, measured on September 13, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
How much CO2 does the Ferry from Le Havre to Bordeaux produce?
The Ferry from Le Havre to Bordeaux produces about 59.8 kg of CO2 per passenger over 520 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 Le Havre to Bordeaux?
Operators on the Ferry from Le Havre to Bordeaux publish Bar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 18h 56m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.
Where these numbers come from
Observed service A carrier record shows this named operator serving this named pair, and we carry that through unchanged.
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 Le Havre to Bordeaux on September 13, 2026: 520 km of route against 520 km in a straight line, 4 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €39.39, and 18h 56m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
Related journeys
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What to book in Bordeaux before you go
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