Donostia / San Sebastian to Alicante ferry

Ferries from Donostia / San Sebastian to Alicante start at €36.09 and take 19h 31m at their fastest.

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The Ferries from Donostia / San Sebastian to Alicante starts at €36.09 and takes 19h 31m door to door, run by 1 operator over 595 km, with around 3 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 45 days before departure.

Checked September 19, 2026Priced for October 6, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 19h 31mDoor to door
  • 18h 1mMoving
  • €43.79 to €80.09From
  • 06:24 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 3Per day
  • 68.4 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on October 6, 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€43.79 to €80.09 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

Grimaldi 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 €78.44Sun20
  2. about €80.09Mon21
  3. about €53.14Tue22
  4. about €55.89Wed23
  5. about €72.39Thu24
  6. about €71.29Fri25
  7. about €54.79Sat26
  8. about €60.84Sun27
  9. about €55.89Mon28
  10. about €47.64Tue29
  11. about €53.14Wed30
  12. about €50.94Thu1
  13. about €64.69Fri2
  14. about €43.79Sat3

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 6, 2026

Cheapest€36.09
  1. Grimaldi G849206:2418h 1m00:25DonostiaALICANTE

Door to door 19h 31mCO2 68.4 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
Grimaldi€36.0918h 43m33 km/hChangeableBar, Bicycles, Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms
  • Grimaldi

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

A hotel room

A room in Alicante for the night the ferry gets in

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

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Booking window

When to book Donostia / San Sebastian to Alicante

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

  1. €48.1990 days
  2. €30.5860 days
  3. €28.3945 days
  4. €30.5830 days
  5. €50.9421 days
  6. €42.6914 days
  7. €54.797 days
  8. €53.143 days
  9. €74.591 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €28.39.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 163 percent. The most expensive point is €74.59, 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. €60.84Sun
  2. €49.83Mon
  3. €40.48Tue
  4. €43.24Wed
  5. €50.94Thu
  6. €60.84Fri
  7. €50.94Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Donostia / San Sebastián

Ferry
  • Donostia
  • Santa Clara

Alicante

Ferry
  • ALICANTE
  • Alicante-Isla de Tabarca
  • Cruise Terminal
The journey

What the journey looks like

Direct or connecting
20% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 80% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 595 km against 566 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 Pamplona, Utebo, Zaragoza, Valencia. The gap between arriving and leaving is 54 minutes, of which about 14 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 17 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 Donostia / San Sebastian at 06:24 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 Donostia / San Sebastian to Alicante

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 Donostia / San Sebastian to Alicante take?

The Ferry from Donostia / San Sebastian to Alicante takes 19h 31m door to door, of which 18h 1m is spent moving. The route runs 595 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 Donostia / San Sebastian to Alicante cost?

The Ferry from Donostia / San Sebastian to Alicante starts at €36.09 for one passenger, as of September 19, 2026. A typical fare is €41.59. 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 Donostia / San Sebastian to Alicante?

1 operators run the Ferry from Donostia / San Sebastian to Alicante: 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 Donostia / San Sebastian to Alicante use?

The Ferry from Donostia / San Sebastian to Alicante leaves from Donostia and arrives at ALICANTE. 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 Donostia / San Sebastian to Alicante?

Fares for the Ferry from Donostia / San Sebastian to Alicante bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €28.39. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 163 percent, measured on September 19, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Ferry from Donostia / San Sebastian to Alicante produce?

The Ferry from Donostia / San Sebastian to Alicante produces about 68.4 kg of CO2 per passenger over 595 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 Donostia / San Sebastian to Alicante?

Operators on the Ferry from Donostia / San Sebastian to Alicante publish Bar, Bicycles, Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 19h 31m 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.

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.

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 Donostia / San Sebastian to Alicante on September 19, 2026: 595 km of route against 566 km in a straight line, 3 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €36.09, and 19h 31m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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