Cheapest€11.88
- Fjord Line FL560906:304h 54m11:24STAVANGERKRISTIANSAND
Door to door 6h 24mCO2 18.4 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee
Stavanger to Kristiansand ferry
Ferries from Stavanger to Kristiansand start at €13.54 and take 6h 24m at their fastest.
Check dates and fares
Fares and seats move by the day. Price Stavanger to Kristiansand on the date you actually want, rather than on the date this page was built.
The Ferries from Stavanger to Kristiansand starts at €13.54 and takes 6h 24m door to door, run by 1 operator over 160 km, with around 3 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 45 days before departure.
- 6h 24mDoor to door
- 4h 54mMoving
- €13.54 to €27.84From
- 20:30 to 20:30First and last departure
- 1Per day
- 18.4 kgCO2
First and last are the departures the operators themselves filed for September 17, 2026, across 1 services on the day.
€13.54 to €27.84 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 17, 2026
Real sailings, with the fares the operator is charging. Check the season before you count on one.
20:3013:2516h 55m
FJORD LINEVessel MS STAVANGERFJORDDirect
STAVANGER → KRISTIANSAND
from €207.00 €325.00
Fares by date
What the operator is charging, by departure date.
September 17, 2026
€207.00
FJORD LINE
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.
The cheapest and the fastest on September 29, 2026
Ferry operators
| Operator | From | Fastest | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Fjord Line | €11.88 | 6h 20m | 33 km/h | Changeable | Bar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms |
The ferry gets you into Kristiansand. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.
A room in Kristiansand for the night the ferry gets in
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When to book Stavanger to Kristiansand
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €17.3990 days
- €11.8960 days
- €11.8845 days
- €11.8830 days
- €11.8921 days
- €14.6414 days
- €20.147 days
- €27.843 days
- €22.341 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €11.88.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 134 percent. The most expensive point is €27.84, 3 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.
Which departure day costs least
Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
- €14.64Sun
- €17.94Mon
- €15.74Tue
- €14.09Wed
- €17.39Thu
- €20.14Fri
- €19.59Sat
Where you leave from and where you arrive
Stavanger
Ferry
- STAVANGER
- Stavanger Fiskepiren
- Stavanger hurtigbåtterminal
Kristiansand
Ferry
- KRISTIANSAND
- Kristiansand
- Kristiansand Ferjeterminal
What the journey actually looks like
- Direct or connecting
- 50% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 50% involve one connection.
- How far it really runs
- The route covers 160 km against 160 km in a straight line, a detour of 1 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
- Where the change is
- Connections are made at Bergen, Sandefjord, Skien, Hirtshals. The gap between arriving and leaving is 45 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 20 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 Stavanger at 06:30 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.
Ferries against the other ways to make this journey
| Mode | Door to door | Moving | At the ends | From | CO2 | Per day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Train | 2h 1m | 1h 17m | 44m | €23.99 | 5.3 kg | 4 |
| Flight | 3h 48m | 38m | 3h 10m | €31.41 | 40.6 kg | 1 |
| Ferry | 6h 24m | 4h 54m | 1h 30m | €13.54 | 18.4 kg | 3 |
Questions about Stavanger to Kristiansand
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 Stavanger to Kristiansand take?
The Ferry from Stavanger to Kristiansand takes 6h 24m door to door, of which 4h 54m is spent moving. The route runs 160 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 Stavanger to Kristiansand cost?
The Ferry from Stavanger to Kristiansand starts at €13.54 for one passenger, as of September 13, 2026. A typical fare is €30.03. 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 Stavanger to Kristiansand?
1 operators run the Ferry from Stavanger to Kristiansand: Fjord Line. 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 Stavanger to Kristiansand use?
The Ferry from Stavanger to Kristiansand leaves from STAVANGER and arrives at KRISTIANSAND. 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.
Is the Ferry the best way from Stavanger to Kristiansand?
Traveling from Stavanger to Kristiansand by Train costs €23.99 and takes 2h 1m door to door, against 6h 24m by Ferry. Which is better depends on whether the money or the hours matter more on this trip. The comparison table on this page shows every mode side by side.
When should I book the Ferry from Stavanger to Kristiansand?
Fares for the Ferry from Stavanger to Kristiansand bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €11.88. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 134 percent, measured on September 13, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
How much CO2 does the Ferry from Stavanger to Kristiansand produce?
The Ferry from Stavanger to Kristiansand produces about 18.4 kg of CO2 per passenger over 160 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 Stavanger to Kristiansand?
Operators on the Ferry from Stavanger to Kristiansand publish Bar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 6h 24m 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 Stavanger to Kristiansand on September 13, 2026: 160 km of route against 160 km in a straight line, 3 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €13.54, and 6h 24m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
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