Portsmouth to Bilbao runs about 4 times a day, with the first departure around 06:26 and the last around 07:30. One passenger pays €57.54, every fee included. The fastest door to door is 28h 30m over 934 km, on services run by 1 operator across 1 mode.
What one seat costs
Every operator we hold on this corridor starts at €57.54, so there is no spread to show.
Typical fares · Priced for October 5, 2026
€57.54
- 321%Moves across the booking window
When it runs, leaving Portsmouth
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.
- 06:26First departure
- 07:30Last departure
- 4Services per day
- 25%Run direct
Departures on September 28, 2026
Real departures, filed by the operators themselves. We hold no fare for these services, so there is no price here to mislead you.
08:0419:4311h 39m
SouthernSouthern5 changes
Portsmouth Harbour → Amara-Donostia
Bikes carriedStep-free
Book with Southern08:3119:4311h 12m
SWRSouth Western Railway6 changes
Portsmouth Harbour → Amara-Donostia
Bikes carriedStep-free
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Brittany Ferries 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 €191.19Sat19
- about €142.79Sun20
- about €122.99Mon21
- about €99.89Tue22
- about €104.29Wed23
- about €109.24Thu24
- about €133.99Fri25
- about €108.14Sat26
- about €82.84Sun27
- about €92.19Mon28
- about €72.93Tue29
- about €92.18Wed30
- about €82.84Thu1
- about €92.19Fri2
- about €78.99Sat3
- about €69.08Sun4
- about €57.54Mon5
- about €59.19Tue6
- about €60.83Wed7
- about €71.83Thu8
- about €71.29Fri9
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 Bilbao. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.
A room in Bilbao for the night the ferry gets in
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When to book Portsmouth to Bilbao
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €74.5990 days
- €45.4460 days
- €53.1345 days
- €63.5930 days
- €71.2921 days
- €92.1914 days
- €133.997 days
- €122.993 days
- €191.191 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €45.44.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 321 percent. The most expensive point is €191.19, 1 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.
Book now Fares on this route are lowest around 60 days ahead. You are inside that window.
This corridor, specifically
Facts that apply to Portsmouth to Bilbao and to no other route on the site.
Clocks
09:04 → 14:34
1 hours ahead on arrival. The clock moves even though you do not.
The shape of it
934 km
849 km as the crow flies, 10% further by the route services take. The bearing runs south.
Who lives at each end
208,100 → 347,342
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
What the journey looks like
Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.
- Direct or connecting
- 20% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 80% involve one connection.
- How far it really runs
- The route covers 934 km against 849 km in a straight line, a detour of 10 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
- Where the change is
- Connections are made at Bristol, Santander, Donostia / San Sebastián, Irun. The gap between arriving and leaving is 49 minutes, of which about 14 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 19 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 BIO into Bilbao is the one price on this trip we cannot show you, because it is not ours.
A car waiting when you land in Bilbao
Settled in advance, so the ride into Bilbao 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 Bilbao Abando
Most of the points near Bilbao Abando open before the first train and close after the last one.
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Questions about Portsmouth to Bilbao
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 Portsmouth to Bilbao?
The fastest journey from Portsmouth to Bilbao takes 28h 30m door to door, of which 28h 51m is spent moving, on the ferry. Most services take around 30h 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 Portsmouth to Bilbao?
The cheapest fare from Portsmouth to Bilbao is €57.54, as of September 18, 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €92.19. 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 Portsmouth to Bilbao?
The cheapest way from Portsmouth to Bilbao is by ferry, at €57.54 for one passenger on October 5, 2026. That journey takes 30h 21m 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 Portsmouth to Bilbao?
Fares from Portsmouth to Bilbao bottom out around 60 days before departure, at €45.44. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the most expensive lead time is 321 percent, measured on September 18, 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.
Which day of the week is cheapest for Portsmouth to Bilbao?
Tuesday is the cheapest day to depart from Portsmouth to Bilbao, at €72.93. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, as of September 18, 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.
Which month is cheapest for Portsmouth to Bilbao?
February is the cheapest of the next 5 months to travel from Portsmouth to Bilbao, at €47.64 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 Portsmouth to Bilbao?
1 operators sell services from Portsmouth to Bilbao across 1 mode: Brittany Ferries. 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 Portsmouth to Bilbao?
20 percent of the services we sell from Portsmouth to Bilbao are direct. The rest connect at Bristol, Santander, Donostia / San Sebastián, Irun, with about 49 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 Portsmouth to Bilbao use?
Services from Portsmouth to Bilbao by ferry leave from PORTSMOUTH and arrive at BILBAO. 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 Portsmouth to Bilbao?
1 of the 1 operators we sell from Portsmouth to Bilbao 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 Portsmouth to Bilbao on September 18, 2026: 934 km of route against 849 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €57.54, and 28h 30m 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 Bilbao a set of days out that do not start at a station. We do not sell those either.
Day trips out of Bilbao and across Spain
Day trips that leave Bilbao in the morning and cover a good part of Spain by evening.
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The two ends, compared
Portsmouth reaches 79 places in 3 countries on services we hold, over distances from 15 to 849 km. Bilbao reaches 148 places in 24 countries, from 24 to 3,759 km.
Other ways to make this journey
Leaving Portsmouth
- 79Places you can leave for
- 3Countries
- 7Operators
Arriving in Bilbao
Leaving Bilbao
- 148Places you can leave for
- 24Countries
- 44Operators