Cheapest€45.99
- Grimaldi G792806:2422h 47m05:11Estación Marítima de MotrilPortugalete
Door to door 24h 17mCO2 17.7 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee
Motril to Portugalete ferry
Ferries from Motril to Portugalete start at €45.99 and take 24h 17m at their fastest.
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Fares and seats move by the day. Price Motril to Portugalete on the date you actually want, rather than on the date this page was built.
The Ferries from Motril to Portugalete starts at €45.99 and takes 24h 17m door to door, run by 1 operator over 768 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 45 days before departure.
- 24h 17mDoor to door
- 22h 47mMoving
- €61.39 to €113.08From
- 06:24 to 07:30First and last departure
- 5Per day
- 17.7 kgCO2
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.
€61.39 to €113.08 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Typical for this corridor. The operator sets the price on the day.
Departure times on this route
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Book your crossing
Grimaldi runs this service and does not sell it here. Direct Ferries takes the payment.
Buying this trip
Direct Ferries 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 €113.08Mon21
- about €83.94Tue22
- about €87.24Wed23
- about €93.29Thu24
- about €97.14Fri25
- about €86.69Sat26
- about €96.59Sun27
- about €68.53Mon28
- about €61.39Tue29
- about €65.79Wed30
- about €64.69Thu1
- about €74.04Fri2
- about €66.34Sat3
- about €62.49Sun4
Based on what this route has cost recently. The live fare is confirmed when you book.
The cheapest and the fastest on October 6, 2026
Ferry operators
| Operator | From | Fastest | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Grimaldi | €45.99 | 23h 31m | 33 km/h | Changeable | Bar, Bicycles, Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms |
The ferry gets you into Portugalete. These two partners take it from there, and the bed is theirs to book.
A room in Portugalete for the night the ferry gets in
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When to book Motril to Portugalete
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €63.5990 days
- €54.2460 days
- €39.3945 days
- €43.2430 days
- €60.2921 days
- €62.4914 days
- €96.597 days
- €87.243 days
- €113.081 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €39.39.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 187 percent. The most expensive point is €113.08, 1 days out.
- What that means
- Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 45 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.
- €62.49Sun
- €68.53Mon
- €61.39Tue
- €65.79Wed
- €64.69Thu
- €74.04Fri
- €66.34Sat
Where you leave from and where you arrive
Motril
Ferry
- Estación Marítima de Motril
- MOTRIL
- Motril
Portugalete
Ferry
- Portugalete
- Embarcadero Getxo
What the journey looks like
- 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 768 km against 732 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 Santander, Almería, Toledo, Bermeo. The gap between arriving and leaving is 49 minutes, of which about 14 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 19 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 Motril at 06:24 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 Motril to Portugalete
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 Motril to Portugalete take?
The Ferry from Motril to Portugalete takes 24h 17m door to door, of which 22h 47m is spent moving. The route runs 768 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 Motril to Portugalete cost?
The Ferry from Motril to Portugalete starts at €45.99 for one passenger, as of September 20, 2026. A typical fare is €60.83. 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 Motril to Portugalete?
1 operators run the Ferry from Motril to Portugalete: Grimaldi. 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 Motril to Portugalete use?
The Ferry from Motril to Portugalete leaves from Estación Marítima de Motril and arrives at Portugalete. 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 Motril to Portugalete?
Fares for the Ferry from Motril to Portugalete bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €39.39. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 187 percent, measured on September 20, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
How much CO2 does the Ferry from Motril to Portugalete produce?
The Ferry from Motril to Portugalete produces about 17.7 kg of CO2 per passenger over 768 km, which works out at roughly 23 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 Motril to Portugalete?
Operators on the Ferry from Motril to Portugalete publish Bar, Bicycles, Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 24h 17m 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.
Derived from service area The operators listed publish a service area covering both places. That evidences the corridor rather than a named service.
Prices come from the supplier wherever we hold a live quote. Elsewhere we show an indicative price built from the real distance, the real operator and a fare curve over lead time, day of the week and season. Those are labeled Estimated fare and cannot be booked.
Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon
- On this page
- Every figure above was computed for Motril to Portugalete on September 20, 2026: 768 km of route against 732 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €45.99, and 24h 17m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
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