- Persero P142306:0716h 44m22:51Gorontalo PortKendari ferry port
Door to door 18h 14mCO2 61.1 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee
Compare trains, buses, flights and ferries from Gorontalo to Kendari. From €36.09, fastest 16h 45m, with the total price and every fee shown up front.
Traveling from Gorontalo to Kendari costs €36.09 at the cheapest and takes 16h 45m door to door at the fastest, across 1 mode and 1 operator. The route covers 531 km. Cheapest is by Ferry, fastest is by Ferry.
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 October 2, 2026.
| Mode | Door to door | Moving | At the ends | From | CO2 | Per day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ferry | 18h 14m | 16h 44m | 1h 30m | €39.39 | 61.1 kg | 1 |
Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.
Door to door 18h 14mCO2 61.1 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee
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.
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.
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 Gorontalo to Kendari | 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 | FriSep 25 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ferry | €111.99 | €93.84 | €74.04 | €46.54 | €61.39 | €81.19 | €62.49 | €65.79 | €44.34 | €39.39 | €52.59 | €41.59 | €61.39 | €47.64 |
Cheapest day: 2026-10-02 · €36.09
The ferry gets you into Kendari. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.
The search opens on Kendari with your nights already filled in, so it is one step to a real price.
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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 KDI into Kendari is the one price on this trip we cannot show you, because it is not ours.

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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| €36.09 | 16h 45m | 33 km/h | Changeable | Bar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms |
Every part of the total, so the number at checkout is the number here.
| Part | Amount | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Operator fare | €31.00 | 86% |
| Taxes | €3.10 | 9% |
| Our service fee | €1.99 | 6% |
| Total you pay | €36.09 | 100% |
A day in Kendari hauling a suitcase is a shorter day than it needs to be. We do not store bags.
Stores, cafes and hotels that take luggage, with the hours on the map so you know what is still open when you come back.
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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.
The fastest journey from Gorontalo to Kendari takes 16h 45m door to door, of which 16h 44m is spent moving, on the Ferry. Most services take around 17h 59m, 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 Gorontalo to Kendari is €36.09, checked on October 2, 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €47.64. 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 Gorontalo to Kendari is by Ferry, at €39.39 for one passenger on October 2, 2026. That journey takes 18h 14m 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.
Fares from Gorontalo to Kendari bottom out around 45 days before departure, at €25.09. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the most expensive lead time is 346 percent, measured on October 2, 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.
Wednesday is the cheapest day to depart from Gorontalo to Kendari, at €43.79. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, checked on October 2, 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.
November is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from Gorontalo to Kendari, at €33.34 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.
1 operators sell services from Gorontalo to Kendari across 1 modes: Persero. 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.
Every service we sell from Gorontalo to Kendari is direct, with around 1 departures a day and a fastest journey of 16h 45m door to door. No connection is needed, so there is no missed connection risk to plan around on this corridor.
Services from Gorontalo to Kendari by Ferry leave from Gorontalo Port and arrive at Kendari ferry port. Allow about 1h 30m 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 1 operators we sell from Gorontalo to Kendari 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.
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.
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Plenty of what is worth seeing sits outside Kendari and elsewhere in Indonesia. None of it is ours to sell.

Timed entry, guided walks and half-day trips out of Kendari, with free cancellation on most of it.
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