Roscoff to Cork ferry

Ferries from Roscoff to Cork start at €39.94 and take 18h 56m at their fastest.

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The Ferries from Roscoff to Cork starts at €39.94 and takes 18h 56m door to door, run by 1 operator over 523 km, with around 1 departure a day. Fares bottom out about 21 days before departure.

Checked September 15, 2026Priced for October 5, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 18h 56mDoor to door
  • 17h 26mMoving
  • €39.94 to €86.69From
  • 23:00 to 23:00First and last departure
  • 1Per day
  • 60.1 kgCO2

First and last are the departures the operators themselves filed for September 25, 2026, across 1 services on the day.

€39.94 to €86.69 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 25, 2026

Real sailings, with the fares the operator is charging. Check the season before you count on one.

  1. 23:0011:0012h

    BRITTANY FERRIESVessel PONT-AVENDirect

    ROSCOFFCORK

    from €118.00seat €162.00

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Fares by date

What the operator is charging, by departure date.

September 25, 2026

€118.00

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.

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on October 5, 2026

Cheapest€33.34
  1. Brittany Ferries BF856006:2617h 26m23:52ROSCOFFCORK

Door to door 18h 56mCO2 60.1 kgChanges 0Changeable 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
Brittany Ferries€33.3416h 35m33 km/hChangeableBar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms
  • Brittany Ferries

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

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A room in Cork for the night the ferry gets in

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Booking window

When to book Roscoff to Cork

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

  1. €41.5990 days
  2. €41.5960 days
  3. €38.8445 days
  4. €42.6930 days
  5. €33.8921 days
  6. €39.9414 days
  7. €45.997 days
  8. €62.493 days
  9. €86.141 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 21 days ahead, at €33.89.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 154 percent. The most expensive point is €86.14, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 21 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
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. €48.74Sun
  2. €52.59Mon
  3. €39.94Tue
  4. €47.64Wed
  5. €49.84Thu
  6. €62.49Fri
  7. €61.39Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Roscoff

Ferry
  • ROSCOFF

Cork

Ferry
  • CORK
  • Cork Harbour Cruises
  • Cork Ringaskiddy
The journey

What the journey actually looks like

How far it really runs
The route covers 523 km against 475 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 Roscoff at 06:26 and the last at 06:26, across 1 departure The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Roscoff to Cork

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 Roscoff to Cork take?

The Ferry from Roscoff to Cork takes 18h 56m door to door, of which 17h 26m is spent moving. The route runs 523 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 Roscoff to Cork cost?

The Ferry from Roscoff to Cork starts at €39.94 for one passenger, as of September 15, 2026. A typical fare is €33.34. 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 Roscoff to Cork?

1 operators run the Ferry from Roscoff to Cork: Brittany Ferries. 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 Roscoff to Cork use?

The Ferry from Roscoff to Cork leaves from ROSCOFF and arrives at CORK. 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 Roscoff to Cork?

Fares for the Ferry from Roscoff to Cork bottom out around 21 days ahead, at €33.89. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 154 percent, measured on September 15, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Ferry from Roscoff to Cork produce?

The Ferry from Roscoff to Cork produces about 60.1 kg of CO2 per passenger over 523 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 Roscoff to Cork?

Operators on the Ferry from Roscoff to Cork publish Bar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 18h 56m 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 Roscoff to Cork on September 15, 2026: 523 km of route against 475 km in a straight line, 1 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €39.94, and 18h 56m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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