Sète to Algiers ferry

Ferries from Sète to Algiers start at €52.59 and take 25h 26m at their fastest.

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A nighttime cityscape of Alger Centre, featuring the illuminated Maqam Echahid in the background.

The Ferries from Sète to Algiers starts at €52.59 and takes 25h 26m door to door, run by 1 operator over 818 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 45 days before departure.

Checked September 17, 2026Priced for October 6, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 25h 26mDoor to door
  • 23h 56mMoving
  • €61.94 to €164.78From
  • 15:00 to 15:00First and last departure
  • 1Per day
  • 94.1 kgCO2

First and last are the departures the operators themselves filed for September 29, 2026, across 1 services on the day.

€61.94 to €164.78 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 29, 2026

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

  1. 15:0016:3025h 30m

    GRANDI NAVI VELOCIVessel FANTASTICDirect

    SETEALGIER

    from €150.00 €200.00 €200.00 €260.00

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Grandi Navi Veloci runs this service and does not sell it here. Direct Ferries takes the payment.

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Direct Ferries holds the sailings between these two ports, with the crossing times and the fares.

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Fares by date

What the operator is charging, by departure date.

September 29, 2026

€150.00

GRANDI NAVI VELOCI

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 6, 2026

Cheapest€52.59
  1. Grandi Navi Veloci GN569206:2323h 56m05:19SETEALGIER

Door to door 25h 26mCO2 94.1 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Fastest€67.99
  1. Grimaldi G966007:304h 27m11:57SETEL'Estaque
  2. Air France AF548113:331h 28m14:01Marseille MRSAlgiers ALG

Changes at Marseille, with 96 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.

Door to door 9h 51mCO2 207.9 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes

Lowest CO2€65.78
  1. Grimaldi G510907:3059m08:29SETEPasseur Mimi
  2. النقل البحري الجزائري S-703909:3225h 7m09:39Passeur MimiALGIER

Changes at Agde, with 63 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 28h 39mCO2 90.8 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
Grandi Navi Veloci€52.5924h 50m33 km/hChangeableBar, Bicycles, Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms
  • Grandi Navi Veloci

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

A hotel room

A room in Algiers for the night the ferry gets in

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Booking window

When to book Sète to Algiers

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

  1. €47.6490 days
  2. €45.9960 days
  3. €42.6945 days
  4. €48.1930 days
  5. €67.4321 days
  6. €82.2814 days
  7. €94.397 days
  8. €110.333 days
  9. €164.781 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €42.69.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 286 percent. The most expensive point is €164.78, 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. €68.54Sun
  2. €61.94Mon
  3. €66.89Tue
  4. €80.09Wed
  5. €82.28Thu
  6. €77.89Fri
  7. €80.63Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Sète

Ferry
  • SETE
  • accès ferry maroc
  • ligne ferry maroc;Corsica Ferris

Algiers

Ferry
  • ALGIER
  • Alger
  • Algiers
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 818 km against 744 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 Agde, Barcelona, Nice, Marseille. The gap between arriving and leaving is 63 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 15 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 Sète at 06:23 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 Sète to Algiers

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 Sète to Algiers take?

The Ferry from Sète to Algiers takes 25h 26m door to door, of which 23h 56m is spent moving. The route runs 818 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 Sète to Algiers cost?

The Ferry from Sète to Algiers starts at €52.59 for one passenger, as of September 17, 2026. A typical fare is €65.78. 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 Sète to Algiers?

1 operators run the Ferry from Sète to Algiers: Grandi Navi Veloci. 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 Sète to Algiers use?

The Ferry from Sète to Algiers leaves from SETE and arrives at ALGIER. 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 Sète to Algiers?

Fares for the Ferry from Sète to Algiers bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €42.69. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 286 percent, measured on September 17, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Ferry from Sète to Algiers produce?

The Ferry from Sète to Algiers produces about 94.1 kg of CO2 per passenger over 818 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 Sète to Algiers?

Operators on the Ferry from Sète to Algiers publish Bar, Bicycles, Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 25h 26m 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 Sète to Algiers on September 17, 2026: 818 km of route against 744 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €52.59, and 25h 26m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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