Strömstad to Sandefjord ferry

Ferries from Strömstad to Sandefjord start at €11.88 and take 3h 46m at their fastest.

StrömstadStrömstadSandefjordSandefjord
Melsomgården at Storgata 20 in the town of Sandefjord, Norway was built in 1801 as the home and farm of shipowner and merchant Ole Sørensen Melsom. It is one of the town's oldest and best-preserved buildings. In 1995, the house was restored by the Anders Jahre Humanitarian Foundation (Norwegian: Anders Jahres humanitære stiftelse) for Sandefjord's 150th anniversary and became the Landstad Centre for Church and Culture (Landstadsenteret for kirke og kultur), serving the local parishes. The building has also been recognized with a Blue Plaque for its local historical significance.

The Ferries from Strömstad to Sandefjord starts at €11.88 and takes 3h 46m door to door, run by 1 operator over 64 km, with around 2 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 90 days before departure.

Checked September 14, 2026Priced for September 15, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 3h 46mDoor to door
  • 2h 16mMoving
  • €11.88From
  • 13:30 to 20:00First and last departure
  • 2Per day
  • 7.4 kgCO2

First and last are the departures the operators themselves filed for September 17, 2026, across 2 services 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.

  1. 13:3016:002h 30m

    COLOR LINEVessel COLOR HYBRIDDirect

    STROMSTADSANDEFJORD

    from €9.00deck

  2. 20:0022:302h 30m

    COLOR LINEVessel COLOR HYBRIDDirect

    STROMSTADSANDEFJORD

    from €9.00deck

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Fares by date

What the operator is charging, by departure date.

September 17, 2026

€9.00

COLOR 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.

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on September 15, 2026

Cheapest€11.88
  1. Color Line CL551206:222h 21m08:43STROMSTADEngø

Door to door 3h 51mCO2 7.4 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Fastest€11.88
  1. Color Line CL899514:092h 16m16:25STROMSTADEngø

Door to door 3h 46mCO2 7.4 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
Color Line€11.883h 39m33 km/hChangeableBar, Bicycles, Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms

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

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A room in Sandefjord for the night the ferry gets in

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Booking window

When to book Strömstad to Sandefjord

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. €11.8845 days
  4. €11.8830 days
  5. €11.8821 days
  6. €11.8814 days
  7. €11.887 days
  8. €11.883 days
  9. €11.881 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 0 percent. The most expensive point is €11.88, 90 days out.
What that means
Today sits outside the cheap window, which opens around 90 days before departure. There is no advantage to booking this minute.
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. €11.88Sun
  2. €11.88Mon
  3. €11.88Tue
  4. €11.88Wed
  5. €11.88Thu
  6. €11.88Fri
  7. €11.88Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Strömstad

Ferry
  • STROMSTAD

Sandefjord

Ferry
  • Engø
  • SANDEFJORD
  • Sandefjord
The journey

What the journey actually looks like

How far it really runs
The route covers 64 km against 59 km in a straight line, a detour of 8 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Strömstad at 06:22 and the last at 14:09, across 2 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Strömstad to Sandefjord

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 Strömstad to Sandefjord take?

The Ferry from Strömstad to Sandefjord takes 3h 46m door to door, of which 2h 16m is spent moving. The route runs 64 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 Strömstad to Sandefjord cost?

The Ferry from Strömstad to Sandefjord starts at €11.88 for one passenger, as of September 14, 2026. A typical fare is €11.88. 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 Strömstad to Sandefjord?

1 operators run the Ferry from Strömstad to Sandefjord: Color Line. Between them they file around 2 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 Strömstad to Sandefjord use?

The Ferry from Strömstad to Sandefjord leaves from STROMSTAD and arrives at Engø. 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 Strömstad to Sandefjord?

Fares for the Ferry from Strömstad to Sandefjord bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €11.88. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 0 percent, measured on September 14, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Ferry from Strömstad to Sandefjord produce?

The Ferry from Strömstad to Sandefjord produces about 7.4 kg of CO2 per passenger over 64 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 Strömstad to Sandefjord?

Operators on the Ferry from Strömstad to Sandefjord publish Bar, Bicycles, Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 3h 46m 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 Strömstad to Sandefjord on September 14, 2026: 64 km of route against 59 km in a straight line, 2 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €11.88, and 3h 46m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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