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Alicante to Galway

Compare trains, buses, flights and ferries from Alicante to Galway. From €147.05, fastest 5h 53m, with the total price and every fee shown up front.

Alicante to Galway runs about 5 times a day, with the first departure around 06:21 and the last around 14:34. One passenger pays between €153.54 and €171.24, every fee included, depending on the operator and the way you travel. The fastest door to door is 5h 53m over 1,838 km, on services run by 1 operator across 1 mode.

Checked September 15, 2026Priced for October 6, 2026One passenger, all fees included

What one seat costs

The spread between the cheapest and dearest typical fare on this corridor, across 1 operator and 1 way of making the journey. The operator sets the price on the day.

Typical fares

€153.54 to €171.24

  • 134%Moves across the booking window

When it runs, leaving Alicante

No operator has filed a timetable for this direction yet, so the first and last departure below follow the pattern of the corridor. Read them as the shape of the service day rather than as times to turn up for.

  • 06:21First departure
  • 14:34Last departure
  • 5Services per day
  • 40%Run direct

Fares by date

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

Typical fares

  1. about €333.49Wed16
  2. about €374.20Thu17
  3. about €344.11Fri18
  4. about €294.55Sat19
  5. about €263.87Sun20
  6. about €243.22Mon21
  7. about €194.84Tue22
  8. about €226.70Wed23
  9. about €258.56Thu24
  10. about €224.34Fri25
  11. about €221.39Sat26
  12. about €237.91Sun27
  13. about €200.15Mon28
  14. about €171.24Tue29
  15. about €200.74Wed30
  16. about €199.99Thu1
  17. about €181.27Fri2
  18. about €178.91Sat3
  19. about €185.40Sun4
  20. about €148.22Mon5
  21. about €147.05Tue6

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.

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

A hotel room

A room in Galway for the night the flight gets in

Sort by distance from Galway railway station and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Alicante to Galway

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

  1. €184.8190 days
  2. €162.9860 days
  3. €165.9345 days
  4. €178.9130 days
  5. €147.0521 days
  6. €171.2414 days
  7. €194.847 days
  8. €344.113 days
  9. €333.491 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 21 days ahead, at €147.05.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 134 percent. The most expensive point is €344.11, 3 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 21 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
€344.11€147.051371421304560

Book now Fares on this route are lowest around 21 days ahead. You are inside that window.

This corridor, specifically

Facts that apply to Alicante to Galway and to no other route on the site.

Clocks

1 hours behind on arrival. You land earlier than the journey suggests.

The shape of it

1,838 km

1,785 km as the crow flies, 3% further by the route services actually take. The bearing runs north.

Who lives at each end

348,90185,910

Population at the departure city and at the arrival city, which is usually what decides how often anything runs.

How we know

Observed

Every operator on this corridor is named in a carrier record.

The route

AlicanteAlicanteGalwayGalway
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 1,838 km against 1,785 km in a straight line, a detour of 3 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Limerick, Dublin, Bristol, Barcelona. The gap between arriving and leaving is 58 minutes, of which about 14 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 16 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.

The fare from NOC into Galway is the one price on this trip we cannot show you, because it is not ours.

A taxi stand outside an airport terminal

A car waiting when you land in Galway

Settled in advance, so the ride into Galway costs what it said it would rather than what the cab stand says.

Partner links. We do not operate transfers. We earn a commission on a booking, and the fare is the same as going direct.

Who runs this route

Galway is small enough to see in an afternoon, which is easier without the luggage. Storing it is not our business.

Left luggage lockers

Baggage storage near Galway railway station

Most of the points near Galway railway station open before the first train and close after the last one.

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Questions about Alicante to Galway

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 it take to get from Alicante to Galway?

The fastest journey from Alicante to Galway takes 5h 53m door to door, of which 2h 59m is spent moving, on the flight. Most services take around 6h 4m, because that average includes slower stopping services and journeys with a connection. Times include reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end.

How much does it cost to travel from Alicante to Galway?

The cheapest fare from Alicante to Galway is €147.05, as of September 15, 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €237.62. Both figures are the total for one passenger, including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so nothing is added at checkout.

What is the cheapest way to get from Alicante to Galway?

The cheapest way from Alicante to Galway is by flight, at €171.24 for one passenger on October 6, 2026. That journey takes 6h 9m door to door. Cheaper is rarely faster on this corridor, and the comparison table on this page shows what each mode costs against what it saves.

When should I book Alicante to Galway?

Fares from Alicante to Galway bottom out around 21 days before departure, at €147.05. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the most expensive lead time is 134 percent, measured on September 15, 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.

Which day of the week is cheapest for Alicante to Galway?

Tuesday is the cheapest day to depart from Alicante to Galway, at €171.24. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, as of September 15, 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.

Which month is cheapest for Alicante to Galway?

February is the cheapest of the next 5 months to travel from Alicante to Galway, at €132.30 for one passenger. Each month is priced on its fifteenth, so the comparison is like for like rather than a mix of weekends and midweek departures.

Who runs service from Alicante to Galway?

1 operators sell services from Alicante to Galway across 1 mode: Ryanair. Journey times, fares and fare conditions differ between them, and the operator table on this page compares all of them on speed, flexibility and what is provided on board.

Is there a direct service from Alicante to Galway?

33 percent of the services we sell from Alicante to Galway are direct. The rest connect at Limerick, Dublin, Bristol, Barcelona, with about 58 minutes between the two services. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is rebooked at no charge.

Which station or terminal do services from Alicante to Galway use?

Services from Alicante to Galway by flight leave from Alicante ALC and arrive at Galway NOC. Allow about 3h 10m in total for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one, which is already included in every door to door time on this page.

Can I change or refund a ticket from Alicante to Galway?

0 of the 1 operators we sell from Alicante to Galway allow a change or a refund. A change on a changeable fare costs €5.00. The operator table on this page names which is which, and the condition is shown again before you pay.

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, Distances

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Alicante to Galway on September 15, 2026: 1838 km of route against 1785 km in a straight line, 6 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €147.05, and 5h 53m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

Being on the water gives Galway a set of days out that do not start at a station. We do not sell those either.

A guided tour group

Day trips out of Galway and across Ireland

Day trips that leave Galway in the morning and cover a good part of Ireland by evening.

Partner links. We do not sell tours or tickets. We earn a commission on a booking, and it never changes the price.

The two ends, compared

Alicante reaches 231 places in 32 countries on services we hold, over distances from 19 to 3,667 km. Galway reaches 24 places in 8 countries, from 73 to 2,820 km.

Other ways to make this journey

Leaving Alicante

  • 231Places you can leave for
  • 32Countries
  • 58Operators

Arriving in Galway

Leaving Galway

  • 24Places you can leave for
  • 8Countries
  • 4Operators

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