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Olbia to Palermo

Compare trains, buses, flights and ferries from Olbia to Palermo. From €37.73, fastest 4h 10m, with the total price and every fee shown up front.

Olbia to Palermo runs about 1 times a day, with the first departure around 06:48 and the last around 06:48. One passenger pays between €47.93 and €55.01, every fee included, depending on the operator and the way you travel. The fastest door to door is 4h 10m over 469 km, on services run by 1 operator across 1 mode.

Checked September 14, 2026Priced for October 5, 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

€47.93 to €55.01

  • 124%Moves across the booking window

When it runs, leaving Olbia

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.

  • 06:48First departure
  • 06:48Last departure
  • 1Services per day
  • 100%Run direct

No sea route

There is no ferry between Olbia and Palermo. Both are ports, and the carriers that sell sailings from each of them connect neither to the other. The land options above are how this journey is actually made.

Fares by date

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

Typical fares

  1. about €75.69Tue15
  2. about €76.24Wed16
  3. about €83.39Thu17
  4. about €80.64Fri18
  5. about €82.29Sat19
  6. about €70.19Sun20
  7. about €45.98Mon21
  8. about €52.58Tue22
  9. about €54.23Wed23
  10. about €68.54Thu24
  11. about €61.38Fri25
  12. about €71.28Sat26
  13. about €59.14Sun27
  14. about €40.48Mon28
  15. about €47.63Tue29
  16. about €42.68Wed30
  17. about €47.63Thu1
  18. about €52.58Fri2
  19. about €54.78Sat3
  20. about €46.53Sun4
  21. about €37.73Mon5

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 Palermo. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.

A hotel room

A room in Palermo for the night the flight gets in

Sort by distance from Palermo Centrale and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

Partner links. We do not sell accommodation. We earn a commission when a booking completes, and it never changes what you pay.

Booking window

When to book Olbia to Palermo

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

  1. €44.3390 days
  2. €37.1860 days
  3. €48.7345 days
  4. €38.8330 days
  5. €37.7321 days
  6. €40.4814 days
  7. €45.987 days
  8. €83.393 days
  9. €75.691 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €37.18.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 124 percent. The most expensive point is €83.39, 3 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 60 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
€83.39€37.181371421304560

Book now Fares on this route are lowest around 60 days ahead. You are inside that window.

This corridor, specifically

Facts that apply to Olbia to Palermo and to no other route on the site.

Clocks

Both ends keep the same time, so the arrival is the departure plus the journey.

The shape of it

469 km

455 km as the crow flies, 3% further by the route services actually take. The bearing runs south-east.

Who lives at each end

60,345648,260

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

How we know

2/4

2 of these connections were inferred from service-area overlap rather than observed in a timetable. We would rather say so.

The route

OlbiaOlbiaPalermoPalermo
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
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 469 km against 455 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 Mazara del Vallo. The gap between arriving and leaving is 62 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 15 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is ours to fix and you are rebooked at no charge.

The fare from PMO into Palermo 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 Palermo

Settled in advance, so the ride into Palermo 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

The flight gets in hours before any room is ready. Holding a bag is not what we sell.

Left luggage lockers

Baggage storage near Palermo Centrale

Most of the points near Palermo Centrale open before the first train and close after the last one.

Partner links. We do not run these networks. We earn a commission on a booking, and the price is the same as going direct.

Questions about Olbia to Palermo

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 Olbia to Palermo?

The fastest journey from Olbia to Palermo takes 4h 10m door to door, of which 1h 3m is spent moving, on the flight. Most services take around 4h 13m, 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 Olbia to Palermo?

The cheapest fare from Olbia to Palermo is €37.73, as of September 14, 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €69.17. 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 Olbia to Palermo?

The cheapest way from Olbia to Palermo is by flight, at €55.01 for one passenger on October 5, 2026. That journey takes 4h 13m 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 Olbia to Palermo?

Fares from Olbia to Palermo bottom out around 60 days before departure, at €37.18. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the most expensive lead time is 124 percent, measured on September 14, 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.

Which day of the week is cheapest for Olbia to Palermo?

Monday is the cheapest day to depart from Olbia to Palermo, at €40.48. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, as of September 14, 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.

Which month is cheapest for Olbia to Palermo?

February is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from Olbia to Palermo, at €35.53 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 Olbia to Palermo?

1 operators sell services from Olbia to Palermo across 1 mode: 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.

Is there a direct service from Olbia to Palermo?

50 percent of the services we sell from Olbia to Palermo are direct. The rest connect at Mazara del Vallo, with about 62 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 Olbia to Palermo use?

Services from Olbia to Palermo by flight leave from Olbia OLB and arrive at Palermo PMO. 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 Olbia to Palermo?

0 of the 1 operators we sell from Olbia to Palermo 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 Olbia to Palermo on September 14, 2026: 469 km of route against 455 km in a straight line, 2 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €37.73, and 4h 10m 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 Palermo 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 Palermo and across Italy

Day trips that leave Palermo in the morning and cover a good part of Italy 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

Olbia reaches 92 places in 18 countries on services we hold, over distances from 92 to 4,560 km. Palermo reaches 129 places in 23 countries, from 68 to 2,382 km.

Other ways to make this journey

Leaving Olbia

  • 92Places you can leave for
  • 18Countries
  • 42Operators

Arriving in Palermo

Leaving Palermo

  • 129Places you can leave for
  • 23Countries
  • 38Operators

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