Cheapest€11.88
- Liberty Lines LL516006:492h 13m09:02MESSINALIPARI
Door to door 3h 43mCO2 7.6 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee
Messina to Lipari ferry
Ferries from Messina to Lipari start at €11.88 and take 3h 43m at their fastest.
Check dates and fares
Fares and seats move by the day. Price Messina to Lipari on the date you actually want, rather than on the date this page was built.
The Ferries from Messina to Lipari starts at €11.88 and takes 3h 43m door to door, run by 1 operator over 66 km, with around 8 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 90 days before departure.
- 3h 43mDoor to door
- 2h 13mMoving
- €11.88From
- 06:45 to 17:50First and last departure
- 5Per day
- 7.6 kgCO2
First and last are the departures the operators themselves filed for September 17, 2026, across 5 services 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.
06:4510:353h 50m
LIBERTY LINESVessel LIBERTY LINESDirect
MESSINA → LIPARI
from €30.84 €35.84
08:0510:402h 35m
LIBERTY LINESVessel 2a2758Direct
MESSINA → LIPARI
from €30.84 €35.84
12:0014:352h 35m
LIBERTY LINESVessel bac6fdDirect
MESSINA → LIPARI
from €30.84 €35.84
15:0018:053h 5m
LIBERTY LINESVessel LIBERTY LINESDirect
MESSINA → LIPARI
from €30.84 €35.84
17:5020:202h 30m
LIBERTY LINESVessel 2a2758Direct
MESSINA → LIPARI
from €30.84 €35.84
Fares by date
What the operator is charging, by departure date.
September 17, 2026
€30.84
LIBERTY LINES
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 15, 2026
Ferry operators
| Operator | From | Fastest | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberty Lines | €11.88 | 3h 41m | 33 km/h | Changeable | Bar, Bicycles, Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms |
The ferry gets you into Lipari. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.
A room in Lipari for the night the ferry gets in
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When to book Messina to Lipari
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €11.8890 days
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- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €11.88.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 0 percent. The most expensive point is €11.88, 90 days out.
- What that means
- Today sits outside the cheap window, which opens around 90 days before departure. There is no advantage to booking this minute.
Which departure day costs least
Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
- €11.88Sun
- €11.88Mon
- €11.88Tue
- €11.88Wed
- €11.88Thu
- €11.88Fri
- €11.88Sat
Where you leave from and where you arrive
Messina
Ferry
- MESSINA
- MESSINA (ALL PORTS)
- Messina (Blu Jet)
- Messina Rada San Francesco
Lipari
Ferry
- LIPARI
What the journey actually looks like
- 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 66 km against 60 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 Reggio Calabria, Palermo, Santa Marina Salina, Milazzo. The gap between arriving and leaving is 56 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 17 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 Messina at 06:49 and the last at 19:40, across 8 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
Questions about Messina to Lipari
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 Messina to Lipari take?
The Ferry from Messina to Lipari takes 3h 43m door to door, of which 2h 13m is spent moving. The route runs 66 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 Messina to Lipari cost?
The Ferry from Messina to Lipari starts at €11.88 for one passenger, as of September 14, 2026. A typical fare is €11.88. 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 Messina to Lipari?
1 operators run the Ferry from Messina to Lipari: Liberty Lines. Between them they file around 8 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 Messina to Lipari use?
The Ferry from Messina to Lipari leaves from MESSINA and arrives at LIPARI. 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 Messina to Lipari?
Fares for the Ferry from Messina to Lipari bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €11.88. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 0 percent, measured on September 14, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
How much CO2 does the Ferry from Messina to Lipari produce?
The Ferry from Messina to Lipari produces about 7.6 kg of CO2 per passenger over 66 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 Messina to Lipari?
Operators on the Ferry from Messina to Lipari publish Bar, Bicycles, Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 3h 43m 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 Messina to Lipari on September 14, 2026: 66 km of route against 60 km in a straight line, 8 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €11.88, and 3h 43m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
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