Salerno to Tunis ferry

Ferries from Salerno to Tunis start at €46.54 and take 20h 14m at their fastest.

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The Ferries from Salerno to Tunis starts at €46.54 and takes 20h 14m door to door, run by 1 operator over 646 km, with around 3 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 21 days before departure.

Checked September 14, 2026Priced for October 5, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 20h 14mDoor to door
  • 18h 44mMoving
  • €46.54 to €90.54From
  • 13:15 to 13:15First and last departure
  • 1Per day
  • 74.3 kgCO2

First and last are the departures the operators themselves filed for September 21, 2026, across 1 services on the day.

€46.54 to €90.54 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 21, 2026

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

  1. 13:1514:0024h 45m

    GRIMALDI LINESVessel MV CATANIADirect

    SALERNO MOLO PONENTETUNIS

    from €53.00deckseat €54.00 €162.00

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Fares by date

What the operator is charging, by departure date.

September 21, 2026

€53.00

GRIMALDI LINES

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€40.49
  1. Grimaldi G286807:3010h 11m17:41SALERNO (ALL PORTS)PALERMO
  2. Grimaldi G541919:2010h 19m05:39PALERMOTUNIS

Changes at Palermo, with 99 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 23h 39mCO2 73.8 kgChanges 1Changeable for a fee

Fastest€75.69
  1. Grimaldi G819407:307h 27m14:57SALERNO (ALL PORTS)Roma Civitavecchia Terminal
  2. ITA Airways IT824016:091h 15m17:24Rome CIATunis TUN

Changes at Rome, with 72 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.

Door to door 12h 14mCO2 180.0 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes

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
Grimaldi€43.2420h 6m33 km/hChangeableBar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms
  • Grimaldi

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A room in Tunis for the night the ferry gets in

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Booking window

When to book Salerno to Tunis

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

  1. €44.8990 days
  2. €41.0460 days
  3. €51.4945 days
  4. €41.0430 days
  5. €40.4921 days
  6. €48.1914 days
  7. €54.247 days
  8. €75.143 days
  9. €67.991 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 21 days ahead, at €40.49.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 86 percent. The most expensive point is €75.14, 3 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. €65.79Sun
  2. €48.19Mon
  3. €46.54Tue
  4. €48.74Wed
  5. €63.04Thu
  6. €63.59Fri
  7. €59.19Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Salerno

Ferry
  • SALERNO (ALL PORTS)
  • Salerno
  • Salerno Stazione Marittima

Tunis

Ferry
  • TUNIS
The journey

What the journey actually looks like

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 646 km against 587 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 Rome, Palermo. The gap between arriving and leaving is 72 minutes, of which about 14 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 13 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 Salerno at 06:11 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 Salerno to Tunis

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 Salerno to Tunis take?

The Ferry from Salerno to Tunis takes 20h 14m door to door, of which 18h 44m is spent moving. The route runs 646 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 Salerno to Tunis cost?

The Ferry from Salerno to Tunis starts at €46.54 for one passenger, as of September 14, 2026. A typical fare is €49.84. 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 Salerno to Tunis?

1 operators run the Ferry from Salerno to Tunis: Grimaldi. 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 Salerno to Tunis use?

The Ferry from Salerno to Tunis leaves from SALERNO (ALL PORTS) and arrives at TUNIS. 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 Salerno to Tunis?

Fares for the Ferry from Salerno to Tunis bottom out around 21 days ahead, at €40.49. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 86 percent, measured on September 14, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Ferry from Salerno to Tunis produce?

The Ferry from Salerno to Tunis produces about 74.3 kg of CO2 per passenger over 646 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 Salerno to Tunis?

Operators on the Ferry from Salerno to Tunis publish Bar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 20h 14m 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 Salerno to Tunis on September 14, 2026: 646 km of route against 587 km in a straight line, 3 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €46.54, and 20h 14m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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