Ferries from Porto Empedocle to Palermo start at €21.77 and take 8h 40m at their fastest.
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The Ferries from Porto Empedocle to Palermo starts at €21.77 and takes 8h 40m door to door, run by 2 operators over 310 km, with around 2 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 90 days before departure.
First and last are taken from the services we sell on September 22, 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.
€21.77 to €34.99 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.
What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.
Typical fares
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.
Changes at Mazara del Vallo, with 88 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.
Door to door 8h 58mCO2 21.4 kgChanges 1Changeable for a fee
Changes at Catania, with 84 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.
Door to door 8h 40mCO2 22.1 kgChanges 1Changeable for a fee
| Operator | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|
 Grimaldi | 33 km/h | Changeable | Bar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms |
 Trenitalia | 140 km/h | Refundable | Power outlets, Wi-Fi |
The ferry gets you into Palermo. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.
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Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
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.
The Ferry from Porto Empedocle to Palermo takes 8h 40m door to door, of which 6h 9m is spent moving. The route runs 310 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.
The Ferry from Porto Empedocle to Palermo starts at €21.77 for one passenger, as of September 15, 2026. A typical fare is €31.13. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.
2 operators run the Ferry from Porto Empedocle to Palermo: Grimaldi, Trenitalia. Between them they file around 2 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.
The Ferry from Porto Empedocle to Palermo leaves from PORTO EMPEDOCLE and arrives at Palermo Centrale. Allow about 1h 7m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.
Fares for the Ferry from Porto Empedocle to Palermo bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €21.77. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 30 percent, measured on September 15, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
The Ferry from Porto Empedocle to Palermo produces about 21.8 kg of CO2 per passenger over 310 km, which works out at roughly 70 grams per passenger kilometer. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveler, not for the vehicle.
Operators on the Ferry from Porto Empedocle to Palermo publish Bar, , Cabins, Cafe, Power outlets, Restaurant, Restrooms, Wi-Fi. That is what 2 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 8h 40m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.
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.
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Being on the water gives Palermo a set of days out that do not start at a station. We do not sell those either.
Day trips that leave Palermo in the morning and cover a good part of Italy by evening.
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