Nantes to Brest ferry
Ferries from Nantes to Brest start at €23.44 and take 9h 4m at their fastest.
The Ferries from Nantes to Brest starts at €23.44 and takes 9h 4m door to door, run by 1 operator over 255 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 45 days before departure.
- 9h 4mDoor to door
- 7h 34mMoving
- €23.44From
- 29.3 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 | €20.69 | 9h 4m | 33 km/h | Changeable | Bar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms |
The trip ends at Brest railway station. Everything past the gates belongs to somebody else, the rooms included.
A room in Brest for the night the ferry gets in
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When to book Nantes to Brest
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €21.0890 days
- €15.0360 days
- €13.3845 days
- €13.5430 days
- €18.3321 days
- €23.2814 days
- €28.237 days
- €26.033 days
- €33.731 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €13.38.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 152 percent. The most expensive point is €33.73, 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.
- €22.18Sun
- €18.88Mon
- €15.58Tue
- €19.98Wed
- €21.63Thu
- €22.18Fri
- €23.28Sat
Where you leave from and where you arrive
The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.
Nantes
- Gachet
- Port Boyer
Brest
- Le Brestoâ
- Gare Maritime (Molène et Ouessant)
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
- 43% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 57% involve one connection.
- How far it really runs
- The route covers 255 km against 255 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 Vannes, Lorient, Lannion, Concarneau. The gap between arriving and leaving is 87 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 11 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 Nantes at 06:42 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.
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 | 3h 56m | 46m | 3h 10m | €36.72 | 64.7 kg | 1 |
| Coach | 4h 21m | 3h 37m | 44m | €15.58 | 6.9 kg | 1 |
| Ferry | 9h 4m | 7h 34m | 1h 30m | €23.44 | 29.3 kg | 5 |
Questions about Nantes to Brest
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 Nantes to Brest take?
The Ferry from Nantes to Brest takes 9h 4m door to door, of which 7h 34m is spent moving. The route runs 255 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 Nantes to Brest cost?
The Ferry from Nantes to Brest starts at €23.44 for one passenger, checked on September 12, 2026. A typical fare is €24.53. 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 Nantes to Brest?
1 operators run the Ferry from Nantes to Brest: Brittany Ferries. 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 Nantes to Brest use?
The Ferry from Nantes to Brest leaves from Gachet and arrives at Le Brestoâ. 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 Nantes to Brest?
Traveling from Nantes to Brest by Coach costs €15.58 and takes 4h 21m door to door, against 9h 4m 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 Nantes to Brest?
Fares for the Ferry from Nantes to Brest bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €13.38. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 152 percent, measured on September 12, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
How much CO2 does the Ferry from Nantes to Brest produce?
The Ferry from Nantes to Brest produces about 29.3 kg of CO2 per passenger over 255 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 Nantes to Brest?
Operators on the Ferry from Nantes to Brest publish Bar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 9h 4m 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 Nantes to Brest on September 12, 2026: 255 km of route against 255 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €23.44, and 9h 4m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
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