Sète to Marseille ferry

Ferries from Sète to Marseille start at €11.88 and take 5h 54m at their fastest.

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Skyline de Marseille depuis le fort Saint-Jean, Bouches-du-Rhône, France

The Ferries from Sète to Marseille starts at €11.88 and takes 5h 54m door to door, run by 2 operators over 144 km, with around 6 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 90 days before departure.

Checked September 9, 2026Priced for September 23, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 5h 54mDoor to door
  • 4h 24mMoving
  • €11.88From
  • 16.6 kgCO2
Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on September 23, 2026

Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.

Cheapest€11.88
  1. Grimaldi G289406:274h 38m11:05accès ferry marocMarseille Gare Maritime

Door to door 6h 8mCO2 16.6 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Fastest€11.88
  1. Sardinia Ferries SF580206:334h 24m10:57accès ferry marocMarseille Gare Maritime

Door to door 5h 54mCO2 16.6 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Carriers

Ferry operators

Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorFastest
Grimaldi5h 53m
Sardinia Ferries5h 54m

Marseille sits on the water, which usually settles which side of town you want to wake up on. Rooms are not ours to sell.

A hotel room

Rooms within reach of Marseille Saint Charles

Hotels and apartments near downtown, most of them with free cancellation, on a map that shows what is walkable.

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Booking window

When to book Sète to Marseille

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

  1. €11.8890 days
  2. €11.8860 days
  3. €11.8945 days
  4. €11.8830 days
  5. €12.4421 days
  6. €11.8814 days
  7. €14.647 days
  8. €17.943 days
  9. €26.191 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €11.88.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 120 percent. The most expensive point is €26.19, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 90 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. €14.09Sun
  2. €14.64Mon
  3. €11.89Tue
  4. €12.44Wed
  5. €15.19Thu
  6. €17.39Fri
  7. €15.19Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.

Sète

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

Marseille

Ferry
  • Marseille Gare Maritime
  • L'Estaque
The journey

What the journey actually looks like

Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.

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 144 km against 137 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 Avignon, Lattes, Agde, Martigues. The gap between arriving and leaving is 55 minutes, of which about 5 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. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is ours to fix and you are rebooked at no charge.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Sète at 06:27 and the last at 07:30, across 6 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Sète to Marseille

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 Marseille take?

The Ferry from Sète to Marseille takes 5h 54m door to door, of which 4h 24m is spent moving. The route runs 144 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 Marseille cost?

The Ferry from Sète to Marseille starts at €11.88 for one passenger, checked on September 23, 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 Sète to Marseille?

2 operators run the Ferry from Sète to Marseille: Grimaldi, Sardinia Ferries. Between them they file around 6 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 Marseille use?

The Ferry from Sète to Marseille leaves from accès ferry maroc and arrives at Marseille Gare Maritime. 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 Marseille?

Fares for the Ferry from Sète to Marseille bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €11.88. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 120 percent, measured on September 23, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

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

The Ferry from Sète to Marseille produces about 16.6 kg of CO2 per passenger over 144 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 Marseille?

Operators on the Ferry from Sète to Marseille publish Bar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms. That is what 2 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 5h 54m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.

Where these numbers come from

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.

Schedules, seat counts and fares are generated by our own model until the supplier contracts are signed. Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance are real. We would rather say that on every page than let a modeled number pass for a filed one.

Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Sète to Marseille on September 9, 2026: 144 km of route against 137 km in a straight line, 6 services a day, 2 operators, a cheapest fare of €11.88, and 5h 54m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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