Compare trains, buses, flights and ferries from Ancona to Catania. From €39.94, fastest 4h 29m, with the total price and every fee shown up front.
Traveling from Ancona to Catania costs €39.94 at the cheapest and takes 4h 29m door to door at the fastest, across 2 modes and 3 operators. The route covers 704 km. Cheapest is by Ferry, fastest is by Flight.
Journey times below are door to door, so they include getting to the terminal and away from it at the other end. Fares are the cheapest we currently sell on September 30, 2026.
| Mode | Door to door | Moving | At the ends | From | CO2 | Per day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flight | 4h 29m | 1h 19m | 3h 10m | €77.43 | 175.4 kg | 8 |
| Ferry | 21h 32m | 20h 2m | 1h 30m | €47.09 | 79.7 kg | 10 |
Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.
Changes at Naples, with 92 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.
Door to door 17h 16mCO2 48.0 kgChanges 1Changeable for a fee
Door to door 4h 29mCO2 175.4 kgChanges 0Fixed, no changes
Live from the operators' own published timetables, through the open transit feeds they publish. Times and services are real. Fares are modeled until our booking connectors are live.
| Operator | Service | Departs | Arrives | Takes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FlixBus-eu2 changes | FlixBus 1556 | 12:45 | 05:40 | 17h 1m |
| TRENITALIA2 changes | IC 541 | 13:55 | 06:02 | 16h 22m |
| TRENITALIA3 changes | IC 541 | 13:55 | 05:40 | 16h 2m |
| TRENITALIA4 changes | FR 8811 | 14:34 | 05:40 | 15h 23m |
| TRENITALIA3 changes | FR 9808 | 15:25 | 06:02 | 14h 52m |
| TRENITALIA2 changes | RV 4161 | 17:50 | 08:40 | 15h 7m |
Live from our own engine, refreshed on every request. The cheapest days for each way of traveling are marked.
| Cheapest fare by mode and day for Ancona to Catania | FriSep 11 | SatSep 12 | SunSep 13 | MonSep 14 | TueSep 15 | WedSep 16 | ThuSep 17 | FriSep 18 | SatSep 19 | SunSep 20 | MonSep 21 | TueSep 22 | WedSep 23 | ThuSep 24 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ferry | €82.29 | €83.39 | €66.89 | €65.79 | €60.84 | €64.14 | €65.24 | €62.49 | €60.84 | €58.64 | €47.09 | €53.14 | €52.04 | €53.14 |
| Flight | €136.43 | €138.20 | €106.34 | €92.18 | €92.18 | €104.57 | €101.03 | €91.00 | €93.36 | €88.05 | €77.43 | €77.43 | €78.02 | €83.33 |
Cheapest day: 2026-09-30 · €39.94
Catania sits on the water, which usually settles which side of town you want to wake up on. Rooms are not ours to sell.
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The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
Book now Fares on this route are lowest around 60 days ahead. You are inside that window.
Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
The same journey priced on the fifteenth of each of the next six months.
Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.
The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.
The fare from CTA into Catania is the one price on this trip we cannot show you, because it is not ours.
Settled in advance, so the ride into Catania costs what it said it would rather than what the cab stand says.
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Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.
| Operator | From | Fastest | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Grimaldi | €41.04 | 21h 17m | 33 km/h | Changeable | Bar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms |
 Ryanair | €67.99 | 4h 29m | 740 km/h | Fixed fare | Not published |
 VOLOTEA Airways | €66.22 | 4h 29m | 740 km/h | Fixed fare | Not published |
Every part of the total, so the number at checkout is the number here.
| Part | Amount | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Operator fare | €34.50 | 86% |
| Taxes | €3.45 | 9% |
| Our service fee | €1.99 | 5% |
| Total you pay | €39.94 | 100% |
We cannot promise Catania Centrale still has a baggage check, because plenty of stations closed theirs.
Priced by the bag and by the day, booked before you get there, and insured while it sits.
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The fastest journey from Ancona to Catania takes 4h 29m door to door, of which 1h 19m is spent moving, on the Flight. Most services take around 12h 21m, because that average includes slower stopping services and journeys with a connection. Times include reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end.
The cheapest fare from Ancona to Catania is €39.94, checked on September 30, 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €87.17. Both figures are the total for one passenger, including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so nothing is added at checkout.
The cheapest way from Ancona to Catania is by Ferry, at €47.09 for one passenger on September 30, 2026. That journey takes 21h 32m 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.
The fastest way from Ancona to Catania is by Flight, at 4h 29m door to door. Only 1h 19m of that is spent moving; the remaining 3h 10m is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end. The cheapest fare on that mode is €77.43.
Fares from Ancona to Catania bottom out around 60 days before departure, at €30.59. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the most expensive lead time is 169 percent, measured on September 30, 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.
Monday is the cheapest day to depart from Ancona to Catania, at €47.09. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, checked on September 30, 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.
February is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from Ancona to Catania, at €30.59 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.
3 operators sell services from Ancona to Catania across 2 modes: Grimaldi, Ryanair, VOLOTEA Airways. 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.
78 percent of the services we sell from Ancona to Catania are direct. The rest connect at Pozzuoli, Naples, Castellammare di Stabia, Bacoli, with about 69 minutes between the two services. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is rebooked at no charge.
Traveling from Ancona to Catania by Ferry produces about 79.7 kg of CO2 per passenger, the lowest of any mode on this corridor. The same journey by Flight produces about 175.4 kg, roughly 2 times as much for one passenger.
Services from Ancona to Catania by Flight leave from Ancona AOI and arrive at Catania CTA. 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.
1 of the 3 operators we sell from Ancona to Catania 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.
Observed service A carrier record shows this named operator serving this named pair, and we carry that through unchanged.
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.
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The flight is the simple part. What you do once you are in Catania is somebody else's catalog.
Day trips that leave Catania in the morning and cover a good part of Italy by evening.
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