Cheapest€11.88
- Caronte & Tourist CT871206:5335m07:28MESSINAVILLA SAN GIOVANNI
Door to door 2h 5mCO2 1.0 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee
Messina to Villa San Giovanni ferry
Ferries from Messina to Villa San Giovanni start at €11.88 and take 2h 5m at their fastest.
Check dates and fares
Fares and seats move by the day. Price Messina to Villa San Giovanni on the date you actually want, rather than on the date this page was built.
The Ferries from Messina to Villa San Giovanni starts at €11.88 and takes 2h 5m door to door, run by 1 operator over 9 km, with around 30 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 90 days before departure.
- 2h 5mDoor to door
- 35mMoving
- €11.88From
- 06:43 to 22:06First and last departure
- 30Per day
- 1.0 kgCO2
First and last are taken from the services we sell on September 19, 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.
Book your crossing
Caronte & Tourist runs this service and does not sell it here. AFerry takes the payment.
Buying this trip
AFerry holds the sailings between these two ports, with the crossing times and the fares.
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Fares by date
What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.
Typical fares
- about €11.88Sat19
- about €11.88Sun20
- about €11.88Mon21
- about €11.88Tue22
- about €11.88Wed23
- about €11.88Thu24
- about €11.88Fri25
- about €11.88Sat26
- about €11.88Sun27
- about €11.88Mon28
- about €11.88Tue29
- about €11.88Wed30
- about €11.88Thu1
- about €11.88Fri2
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.
The cheapest and the fastest on September 19, 2026
Ferry operators
| Operator | From | Fastest | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caronte & Tourist | €11.88 | 2h 5m | 33 km/h | Changeable | Bar, Bicycles, Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms |
The ferry gets you into Villa San Giovanni. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.
A room in Villa San Giovanni for the night the ferry gets in
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When to book Messina to Villa San Giovanni
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €11.8890 days
- €11.8860 days
- €11.8845 days
- €11.8830 days
- €11.8821 days
- €11.8814 days
- €11.887 days
- €11.883 days
- €11.881 days
- 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
Villa San Giovanni
Ferry
- VILLA SAN GIOVANNI
What the journey looks like
- How far it really runs
- The route covers 9 km against 8 km in a straight line, a detour of 13 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
- First and last departure
- The first service of the day leaves Messina at 06:43 and the last at 22:06, across 30 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
Questions about Messina to Villa San Giovanni
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 Villa San Giovanni take?
The Ferry from Messina to Villa San Giovanni takes 2h 5m door to door, of which 35m is spent moving. The route runs 9 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 Villa San Giovanni cost?
The Ferry from Messina to Villa San Giovanni starts at €11.88 for one passenger, as of September 18, 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 Villa San Giovanni?
1 operators run the Ferry from Messina to Villa San Giovanni: Caronte & Tourist. Between them they file around 30 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 Villa San Giovanni use?
The Ferry from Messina to Villa San Giovanni leaves from MESSINA and arrives at VILLA SAN GIOVANNI. 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 Villa San Giovanni?
Fares for the Ferry from Messina to Villa San Giovanni 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 18, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
How much CO2 does the Ferry from Messina to Villa San Giovanni produce?
The Ferry from Messina to Villa San Giovanni produces about 1.0 kg of CO2 per passenger over 9 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 Villa San Giovanni?
Operators on the Ferry from Messina to Villa San Giovanni publish Bar, Bicycles, Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 2h 5m 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 Villa San Giovanni on September 18, 2026: 9 km of route against 8 km in a straight line, 30 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €11.88, and 2h 5m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
Related journeys
Being on the water gives Villa San Giovanni a set of days out that do not start at a station. We do not sell those either.
Day trips out of Villa San Giovanni and across Italy
Day trips that leave Villa San Giovanni in the morning and cover a good part of Italy by evening.
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