St-Malo to Portsmouth ferry

Ferries from St-Malo to Portsmouth start at €18.49 and take 9h 58m at their fastest.

Saint-MaloSaint-MaloPortsmouthPortsmouth
Leaving Portsmouth

The Ferries from St-Malo to Portsmouth starts at €18.49 and takes 9h 58m door to door, run by 1 operator over 273 km, with around 3 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked September 19, 2026Priced for October 5, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 9h 58mDoor to door
  • 8h 28mMoving
  • €23.44 to €41.59From
  • 06:26 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 3Per day
  • 31.4 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on October 5, 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€23.44 to €41.59 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.

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

Typical fares

  1. about €41.59Sun20
  2. about €37.19Mon21
  3. about €27.84Tue22
  4. about €31.69Wed23
  5. about €33.34Thu24
  6. about €38.84Fri25
  7. about €30.04Sat26
  8. about €23.98Sun27
  9. about €23.98Mon28
  10. about €23.98Tue29
  11. about €23.44Wed30
  12. about €25.09Thu1
  13. about €24.54Fri2
  14. about €24.54Sat3

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 October 5, 2026

Cheapest€18.49
  1. Brittany Ferries BF851006:268h 28m13:54Brittany Ferries - St. Malo TerminalPORTSMOUTH

Door to door 9h 58mCO2 31.4 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Lowest CO2€21.77
  1. Brittany Ferries BF527207:303h 57m11:27Brittany Ferries - St. Malo TerminalCHERBOURG
  2. Brittany Ferries BF686612:384h 50m16:28CherbourgCherbourg

Changes at Cherbourg, with 71 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 11h 28mCO2 30.0 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
Brittany Ferries€18.499h 33m33 km/hChangeableBar, Bicycles, Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms
  • Brittany Ferries

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

A hotel room

A room in Portsmouth for the night the ferry gets in

Sort by distance from Portsmouth Harbour and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book St-Malo to Portsmouth

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

  1. €22.8990 days
  2. €14.0960 days
  3. €15.7445 days
  4. €20.1430 days
  5. €20.1421 days
  6. €24.5414 days
  7. €30.047 days
  8. €27.843 days
  9. €41.591 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €14.09.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 195 percent. The most expensive point is €41.59, 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.
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. €23.98Sun
  2. €23.98Mon
  3. €23.98Tue
  4. €23.44Wed
  5. €26.18Thu
  6. €24.54Fri
  7. €24.54Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Saint-Malo

Ferry
  • Brittany Ferries - St. Malo Terminal
  • Condor Ferry - St. Malo Terminal
  • SAINT-MALO

Portsmouth

Ferry
  • PORTSMOUTH
  • Portsmouth Harbour
  • Portsmouth International Port
The journey

What the journey looks like

Direct or connecting
25% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 75% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 273 km against 248 km in a straight line, a detour of 10 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Le Havre, London, Cherbourg. The gap between arriving and leaving is 46 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. 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 St-Malo at 06:26 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 St-Malo to Portsmouth

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 St-Malo to Portsmouth take?

The Ferry from St-Malo to Portsmouth takes 9h 58m door to door, of which 8h 28m is spent moving. The route runs 273 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 St-Malo to Portsmouth cost?

The Ferry from St-Malo to Portsmouth starts at €18.49 for one passenger, as of September 19, 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 St-Malo to Portsmouth?

1 operators run the Ferry from St-Malo to Portsmouth: 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 St-Malo to Portsmouth use?

The Ferry from St-Malo to Portsmouth leaves from Brittany Ferries - St. Malo Terminal and arrives at PORTSMOUTH. 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 St-Malo to Portsmouth?

Fares for the Ferry from St-Malo to Portsmouth bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €14.09. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 195 percent, measured on September 19, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Ferry from St-Malo to Portsmouth produce?

The Ferry from St-Malo to Portsmouth produces about 31.4 kg of CO2 per passenger over 273 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 St-Malo to Portsmouth?

Operators on the Ferry from St-Malo to Portsmouth publish Bar, Bicycles, Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 9h 58m 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 St-Malo to Portsmouth on September 19, 2026: 273 km of route against 248 km in a straight line, 3 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €18.49, and 9h 58m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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