Saint John to Sydney ferry

Ferries from Saint John to Sydney start at €40.49 and take 15h 49m at their fastest.

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The Ferries from Saint John to Sydney starts at €40.49 and takes 15h 49m door to door, run by 1 operator over 489 km, with around 3 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 45 days before departure.

Checked September 11, 2026Priced for September 29, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 15h 49mDoor to door
  • 14h 19mMoving
  • €40.49From
  • 56.2 kgCO2
Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on September 29, 2026

Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.

Cheapest€31.69
  1. Maritime M146307:306h 51m14:21Saint JohnWoodside Ferry Terminal
  2. Maritime M756015:069h 45m00:51Woodside Ferry TerminalNorth Sydney Terminal

Changes at Halifax, with 45 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 18h 51mCO2 59.8 kgChanges 1Changeable for a fee

Fastest€34.99
  1. Maritime M354506:2714h 19m20:46Saint JohnNorth Sydney Terminal

Door to door 15h 49mCO2 56.2 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Carriers

Ferry operators

Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.

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
Maritime€33.3415h 42m33 km/hChangeableBar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms

The trip ends at Sydney station. Everything past the gates belongs to somebody else, the rooms included.

A hotel room

A room in Sydney for the night the ferry gets in

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Booking window

When to book Saint John to Sydney

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

  1. €47.0990 days
  2. €29.4960 days
  3. €25.6445 days
  4. €38.2930 days
  5. €44.8921 days
  6. €61.3914 days
  7. €59.197 days
  8. €56.993 days
  9. €92.741 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €25.64.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 262 percent. The most expensive point is €92.74, 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.
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. €41.04Sun
  2. €44.89Mon
  3. €40.49Tue
  4. €49.29Wed
  5. €61.39Thu
  6. €59.19Fri
  7. €47.64Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.

Saint John

Ferry
  • Saint John
  • Diamond Jubilee Terminal

Sydney

Ferry
  • North Sydney Terminal
  • Marine Atlantic - North Sydney Terminal
The journey

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
33% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 67% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 489 km against 466 km in a straight line, a detour of 5 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Halifax, Quispamsis. The gap between arriving and leaving is 45 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 20 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 Saint John at 06:27 and the last at 07:30, across 3 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Saint John to Sydney

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 Saint John to Sydney take?

The Ferry from Saint John to Sydney takes 15h 49m door to door, of which 14h 19m is spent moving. The route runs 489 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 Saint John to Sydney cost?

The Ferry from Saint John to Sydney starts at €40.49 for one passenger, checked on September 29, 2026. A typical fare is €34.99. 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 Saint John to Sydney?

1 operators run the Ferry from Saint John to Sydney: Maritime. 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 Saint John to Sydney use?

The Ferry from Saint John to Sydney leaves from Saint John and arrives at North Sydney Terminal. 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 Saint John to Sydney?

Fares for the Ferry from Saint John to Sydney bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €25.64. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 262 percent, measured on September 29, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Ferry from Saint John to Sydney produce?

The Ferry from Saint John to Sydney produces about 56.2 kg of CO2 per passenger over 489 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 Saint John to Sydney?

Operators on the Ferry from Saint John to Sydney publish Bar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 15h 49m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.

Where these numbers come from

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.

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 Saint John to Sydney on September 11, 2026: 489 km of route against 466 km in a straight line, 3 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €40.49, and 15h 49m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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