Palermo to Porto Empedocle ferry

Ferries from Palermo to Porto Empedocle start at €21.77 and take 9h 3m at their fastest.

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The Ferries from Palermo to Porto Empedocle starts at €21.77 and takes 9h 3m door to door, run by 1 operator over 186 km, with around 1 departure a day. Fares bottom out about 90 days before departure.

Checked September 14, 2026Priced for September 21, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 9h 3mDoor to door
  • 6h 27mMoving
  • €21.77 to €28.94From
  • 07:30 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 1Per day
  • 21.4 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on September 21, 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€21.77 to €28.94 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Worked out from this corridor rather than held for anybody. The operator sets the price on the day.

Fares by date

What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.

Typical fares

  1. about €28.39Tue15
  2. about €26.19Wed16
  3. about €28.94Thu17
  4. about €28.39Fri18
  5. about €27.84Sat19
  6. about €24.54Sun20
  7. about €21.77Mon21
  8. about €21.77Tue22
  9. about €21.77Wed23
  10. about €23.99Thu24
  11. about €21.77Fri25
  12. about €22.88Sat26
  13. about €22.89Sun27
  14. about €21.77Mon28

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.

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on September 21, 2026

Cheapest€21.77
  1. Grimaldi G869007:303h 12m10:42PALERMOMazara d. V.
  2. Grimaldi G719011:483h 15m15:03Mazara d. V.PORTO EMPEDOCLE

Changes at Mazara del Vallo, with 66 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 9h 3mCO2 21.4 kgChanges 1Changeable for a fee

Carriers

Ferry operators

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorFromFastestTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
GrimaldiNoneNone33 km/hChangeableBar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms
  • Grimaldi

The ferry gets you into Porto Empedocle. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.

A hotel room

A room in Porto Empedocle for the night the ferry gets in

Sort by distance from Porto Empedocle railway station and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Palermo to Porto Empedocle

The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.

  1. €21.7790 days
  2. €21.7760 days
  3. €21.7745 days
  4. €21.7730 days
  5. €21.7721 days
  6. €21.7714 days
  7. €21.777 days
  8. €28.943 days
  9. €28.391 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €21.77.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 33 percent. The most expensive point is €28.94, 3 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.
Day of the week

Which departure day costs least

Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.

  1. €22.89Sun
  2. €21.77Mon
  3. €21.77Tue
  4. €21.77Wed
  5. €23.99Thu
  6. €21.77Fri
  7. €22.88Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Palermo

Ferry
  • PALERMO
  • Palermo (Liberty Lines)
  • Palermo Stazione Marittima

Porto Empedocle

Ferry
  • PORTO EMPEDOCLE
  • Porto Empedocle
The journey

What the journey actually looks like

Direct or connecting
0% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 100% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 186 km against 93 km in a straight line, a detour of 167 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Catania, Mazara del Vallo. The gap between arriving and leaving is 56 minutes, of which about 14 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 Palermo at 07:30 and the last at 07:30, across 1 departure The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
The alternatives

Ferries against the other ways to make this journey

Door to door means the whole journey, including reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end. Fares are the cheapest sold on each mode.
ModeDoor to doorMovingAt the endsFromCO2Per day
Train8h 1m5h 58m2h 3m€36.6422.1 kg1
Ferry9h 3m6h 27m2h 36m€21.7721.4 kg1

Questions about Palermo to Porto Empedocle

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 Palermo to Porto Empedocle take?

The Ferry from Palermo to Porto Empedocle takes 9h 3m door to door, of which 6h 27m is spent moving. The route runs 186 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 Palermo to Porto Empedocle cost?

The Ferry from Palermo to Porto Empedocle starts at €21.77 for one passenger, as of September 14, 2026. A typical fare is €21.77. 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 Palermo to Porto Empedocle?

1 operators run the Ferry from Palermo to Porto Empedocle: Grimaldi. Between them they file around 1 departure 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 Palermo to Porto Empedocle use?

The Ferry from Palermo to Porto Empedocle leaves from PALERMO and arrives at PORTO EMPEDOCLE. 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 Palermo to Porto Empedocle?

Traveling from Palermo to Porto Empedocle by Train costs €36.64 and takes 8h 1m door to door, against 9h 3m 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 Palermo to Porto Empedocle?

Fares for the Ferry from Palermo to Porto Empedocle bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €21.77. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 33 percent, measured on September 14, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Ferry from Palermo to Porto Empedocle produce?

The Ferry from Palermo to Porto Empedocle produces about 21.4 kg of CO2 per passenger over 186 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 Palermo to Porto Empedocle?

Operators on the Ferry from Palermo to Porto Empedocle publish Bar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 9h 3m 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 No carrier record names this exact pair. The operators listed publish a service area covering both places at a distance their mode plausibly carries people, which is evidence that the corridor is served and not evidence of a specific service. Pages state which, because presenting the two as the same thing would be dishonest.

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 Palermo to Porto Empedocle on September 14, 2026: 186 km of route against 93 km in a straight line, 1 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €21.77, and 9h 3m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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