Cheapest€12.99
- Brittany Ferries BF540911:577h 5m20:02PORTSMOUTHCAEN
Door to door 8h 35mCO2 23.7 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee
Portsmouth to Caen ferry
Ferries from Portsmouth to Caen start at €12.99 and take 8h 2m at their fastest.
Check dates and fares
Fares and seats move by the day. Price Portsmouth to Caen on the date you actually want, rather than on the date this page was built.
The Ferries from Portsmouth to Caen starts at €12.99 and takes 8h 2m door to door, run by 1 operator over 206 km, with around 3 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.
- 8h 2mDoor to door
- 6h 32mMoving
- €16.29 to €32.24From
- 08:00 to 23:00First and last departure
- 3Per day
- 23.7 kgCO2
First and last are the departures the operators themselves filed for September 17, 2026, across 3 services on the day.
€16.29 to €32.24 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.
Sailings on September 17, 2026
Real sailings, with the fares the operator is charging. Check the season before you count on one.
08:0015:007h
BRITTANY FERRIESVessel GUILLAUME DE NORMANDIEDirect
PORTSMOUTH → CAEN
from €44.00deck €60.00 €82.00
15:0022:007h
BRITTANY FERRIESVessel MONT ST MICHELDirect
PORTSMOUTH → CAEN
from €44.00deckseat €58.00 €86.00
23:0006:457h 45m
BRITTANY FERRIESVessel GUILLAUME DE NORMANDIEDirect
PORTSMOUTH → CAEN
from €86.00 €155.00
Book your crossing
Brittany Ferries 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 the operator is charging, by departure date.
September 17, 2026
€44.00
BRITTANY FERRIES
This crossing was checked for one date, and that is the only date we hold a fare for. The operator sells the rest of the season.
The cheapest and the fastest on October 6, 2026
Fastest€13.54
- Brittany Ferries BF395917:046h 32m00:36PORTSMOUTHCAEN
Door to door 8h 2mCO2 23.7 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee
Ferry operators
| Operator | From | Fastest | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Brittany Ferries | €12.99 | 7h 37m | 33 km/h | Changeable | Bar, Bicycles, Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms |
The ferry gets you into Caen. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.
A room in Caen for the night the ferry gets in
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When to book Portsmouth to Caen
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €17.3990 days
- €11.8860 days
- €12.4445 days
- €15.1930 days
- €20.1421 days
- €19.0414 days
- €25.647 days
- €31.143 days
- €32.241 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €11.88.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 171 percent. The most expensive point is €32.24, 1 days out.
- What that means
- Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 60 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.
- €19.59Sun
- €17.39Mon
- €16.29Tue
- €17.39Wed
- €20.14Thu
- €25.64Fri
- €21.79Sat
Where you leave from and where you arrive
Portsmouth
Ferry
- PORTSMOUTH
- Portsmouth Harbour
- Portsmouth International Port
Caen
Ferry
- CAEN
What the journey looks like
- How far it really runs
- The route covers 206 km against 187 km in a straight line, a detour of 10 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
- First and last departure
- The first service of the day leaves Portsmouth at 06:50 and the last at 17:04, across 3 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
Questions about Portsmouth to Caen
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 Portsmouth to Caen take?
The Ferry from Portsmouth to Caen takes 8h 2m door to door, of which 6h 32m is spent moving. The route runs 206 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 Portsmouth to Caen cost?
The Ferry from Portsmouth to Caen starts at €12.99 for one passenger, as of September 17, 2026. A typical fare is €13.54. 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 Portsmouth to Caen?
1 operators run the Ferry from Portsmouth to Caen: Brittany Ferries. Between them they file around 3 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 Portsmouth to Caen use?
The Ferry from Portsmouth to Caen leaves from PORTSMOUTH and arrives at CAEN. 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 Portsmouth to Caen?
Fares for the Ferry from Portsmouth to Caen bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €11.88. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 171 percent, measured on September 17, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
How much CO2 does the Ferry from Portsmouth to Caen produce?
The Ferry from Portsmouth to Caen produces about 23.7 kg of CO2 per passenger over 206 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 Portsmouth to Caen?
Operators on the Ferry from Portsmouth to Caen publish Bar, Bicycles, Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 8h 2m 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 Portsmouth to Caen on September 17, 2026: 206 km of route against 187 km in a straight line, 3 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €12.99, and 8h 2m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
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