Porto Empedocle to Catania runs about 2 times a day, with the first departure around 06:07 and the last around 07:30. One passenger pays €11.88, every fee included. The fastest door to door is 5h 57m over 145 km, on services run by 1 operator across 1 mode.
What one seat costs
Every operator we hold on this corridor starts at €11.88, so there is no spread to show.
Typical fares
€11.88
- 79%Moves across the booking window
When it runs, leaving Porto Empedocle
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.
- 06:07First departure
- 07:30Last departure
- 2Services per day
- 50%Run direct
Grimaldi runs this service and does not sell it here. AFerry takes the payment.
Buying this trip
AFerry holds the sailings between these two ports, with the crossing times and the fares.
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Fares by date
What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.
Typical fares
- about €21.24Wed16
- about €22.34Thu17
- about €21.24Fri18
- about €23.44Sat19
- about €17.39Sun20
- about €19.59Mon21
- about €11.89Tue22
- about €12.44Wed23
- about €15.74Thu24
- about €19.04Fri25
- about €14.64Sat26
- about €16.29Sun27
- about €16.29Mon28
- about €11.88Tue29
- about €12.99Wed30
- about €11.89Thu1
- about €15.74Fri2
- about €11.89Sat3
- about €14.09Sun4
- about €12.99Mon5
- about €11.88Tue6
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 ferry gets you into Catania. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.
A room in Catania for the night the ferry gets in
Sort by distance from Catania Centrale and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.
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When to book Porto Empedocle to Catania
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €12.4490 days
- €12.4460 days
- €13.5445 days
- €12.9930 days
- €11.8821 days
- €11.8814 days
- €11.897 days
- €21.243 days
- €21.241 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 21 days ahead, at €11.88.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 79 percent. The most expensive point is €21.24, 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.
Book now Fares on this route are lowest around 14 days ahead. You are inside that window.
This corridor, specifically
Facts that apply to Porto Empedocle to Catania 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
145 km
138 km as the crow flies, 5% further by the route services actually take. The bearing runs east.
Who lives at each end
16,574 → 311,584
Population at the departure city and at the arrival city, which is usually what decides how often anything runs.
How we know
0/2
2 of these connections were inferred from service-area overlap rather than observed in a timetable. We would rather say so.
The route
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 145 km against 138 km in a straight line, a detour of 5 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 73 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 13 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 CTA into Catania is the one price on this trip we cannot show you, because it is not ours.
A car waiting when you land in Catania
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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Who runs this route
The ferry gets in hours before any room is ready. Holding a bag is not what we sell.
Baggage storage near Catania Centrale
Most of the points near Catania Centrale open before the first train and close after the last one.
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Questions about Porto Empedocle to Catania
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 Porto Empedocle to Catania?
The fastest journey from Porto Empedocle to Catania takes 5h 57m door to door, of which 5h 3m is spent moving, on the ferry. Most services take around 6h 11m, 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 Porto Empedocle to Catania?
The cheapest fare from Porto Empedocle to Catania is €11.88, as of September 15, 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €15.74. 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 Porto Empedocle to Catania?
The cheapest way from Porto Empedocle to Catania is by ferry, at €11.88 for one passenger on September 29, 2026. That journey takes 6h 33m 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 Porto Empedocle to Catania?
Fares from Porto Empedocle to Catania bottom out around 21 days before departure, at €11.88. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the most expensive lead time is 79 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 Porto Empedocle to Catania?
Tuesday is the cheapest day to depart from Porto Empedocle to Catania, at €11.88. 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 Porto Empedocle to Catania?
November is the cheapest of the next 5 months to travel from Porto Empedocle to Catania, at €11.88 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 Porto Empedocle to Catania?
1 operators sell services from Porto Empedocle to Catania across 1 mode: Grimaldi. 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 Porto Empedocle to Catania?
50 percent of the services we sell from Porto Empedocle to Catania are direct. The rest connect at Mazara del Vallo, with about 73 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 Porto Empedocle to Catania use?
Services from Porto Empedocle to Catania by ferry leave from PORTO EMPEDOCLE and arrive at Catania Porto. 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.
Can I change or refund a ticket from Porto Empedocle to Catania?
1 of the 1 operators we sell from Porto Empedocle 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.
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.
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.
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 Porto Empedocle to Catania on September 15, 2026: 145 km of route against 138 km in a straight line, 2 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €11.88, and 5h 57m 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 Catania a set of days out that do not start at a station. We do not sell those either.
Day trips out of Catania and across Italy
Day trips that leave Catania in the morning and cover a good part of Italy by evening.
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The two ends, compared
Porto Empedocle reaches 35 places in 1 countries on services we hold, over distances from 92 to 888 km. Catania reaches 127 places in 32 countries, from 50 to 4,030 km.
Other ways to make this journey
Leaving Porto Empedocle
- 35Places you can leave for
- 1Countries
- 2Operators
Arriving in Catania
Leaving Catania
- 127Places you can leave for
- 32Countries
- 53Operators