Santa Pola to Bilbao ferry

Ferries from Santa Pola to Bilbao start at €45.44 and take 20h 3m at their fastest.

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The Ferries from Santa Pola to Bilbao starts at €45.44 and takes 20h 3m door to door, run by 1 operator over 628 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

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

  • 20h 3mDoor to door
  • 18h 33mMoving
  • €45.44 to €87.24From
  • 06:11 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 5Per day
  • 72.2 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.

€45.44 to €87.24 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.

Fares by date

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

Typical fares

  1. about €65.79Tue15
  2. about €83.94Wed16
  3. about €72.94Thu17
  4. about €85.04Fri18
  5. about €87.24Sat19
  6. about €67.44Sun20
  7. about €54.24Mon21
  8. about €45.44Tue22
  9. about €47.09Wed23
  10. about €61.39Thu24
  11. about €60.84Fri25
  12. about €57.54Sat26
  13. about €64.14Sun27
  14. about €47.09Mon28

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€41.04
  1. Grimaldi G961907:3012h 41m20:11Santa PolaBarca de Candespina
  2. Grimaldi G442221:518h 1m05:52Barca de CandespinaBILBAO

Changes at Utebo, with 100 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 23h 52mCO2 75.7 kgChanges 1Changeable for a fee

Fastest€82.83
  1. Baleària B643507:3055m08:25Santa PolaALICANTE
  2. Renfe R418709:574h 25m14:22Alicante TerminalBilbao Abando

Changes at Alicante, with 92 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.

Door to door 7h 59mCO2 21.6 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
Grimaldi€42.1419h 53m33 km/hChangeableBar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms
  • Grimaldi

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

A hotel room

A room in Bilbao for the night the ferry gets in

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Booking window

When to book Santa Pola to Bilbao

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

  1. €46.5490 days
  2. €40.4960 days
  3. €49.8445 days
  4. €41.5930 days
  5. €41.0421 days
  6. €47.0914 days
  7. €54.247 days
  8. €72.943 days
  9. €65.791 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €40.49.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 80 percent. The most expensive point is €72.94, 3 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. €64.14Sun
  2. €47.09Mon
  3. €45.44Tue
  4. €47.09Wed
  5. €61.39Thu
  6. €60.84Fri
  7. €57.54Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Santa Pola

Ferry
  • Santa Pola
  • Tabarca

Bilbao

Ferry
  • BILBAO
  • Bilbao Terminal de Getxo
  • Pío Baroja plaza
The journey

What the journey actually 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 628 km against 598 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 Gandia, Alicante, Valencia, Utebo. The gap between arriving and leaving is 53 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 18 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 Santa Pola at 06:11 and the last at 07:30, across 5 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Santa Pola to Bilbao

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 Santa Pola to Bilbao take?

The Ferry from Santa Pola to Bilbao takes 20h 3m door to door, of which 18h 33m is spent moving. The route runs 628 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 Santa Pola to Bilbao cost?

The Ferry from Santa Pola to Bilbao starts at €45.44 for one passenger, as of September 14, 2026. A typical fare is €48.74. 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 Santa Pola to Bilbao?

1 operators run the Ferry from Santa Pola to Bilbao: Grimaldi. Between them they file around 5 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 Santa Pola to Bilbao use?

The Ferry from Santa Pola to Bilbao leaves from Santa Pola and arrives at BILBAO. 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 Santa Pola to Bilbao?

Fares for the Ferry from Santa Pola to Bilbao bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €40.49. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 80 percent, measured on September 14, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Ferry from Santa Pola to Bilbao produce?

The Ferry from Santa Pola to Bilbao produces about 72.2 kg of CO2 per passenger over 628 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 Santa Pola to Bilbao?

Operators on the Ferry from Santa Pola to Bilbao publish Bar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 20h 3m 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 Santa Pola to Bilbao on September 14, 2026: 628 km of route against 598 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €45.44, and 20h 3m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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