Portsmouth to Santander runs about 1 times a day, with the first departure around 21:30 and the last around 21:30. One passenger pays between €54.79 and €65.79, every fee included, depending on the operator and the way you travel. The fastest door to door is 26h 38m over 883 km, on services run by 1 operator across 1 mode.
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
€54.79 to €65.79
- 152%Moves across the booking window
When it runs, leaving Portsmouth
First and last sailing as the operators themselves filed them for September 21, 2026, counted in this direction only. The return crossing runs on its own timetable and this page does not speak for it.
- 21:30First departure
- 21:30Last departure
- 1Services per day
- 100%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.
09:0407:2022h 16m
SouthernSouthern4 changes
Portsmouth Harbour → Santander (Bus Station)
Bikes carriedStep-free
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SouthernSouthern5 changes
Portsmouth Harbour → Santander (Bus Station)
Bikes carriedStep-free
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Sailings on September 21, 2026
Real sailings, with the fares the operator is charging. Check the season before you count on one.
21:3008:0034h 30m
BRITTANY FERRIESVessel SALAMANCADirect
PORTSMOUTH → SANTANDER
from €192.00seatdeck €280.00 €305.00
Vehicles carriedPets carried
Fares on the crossing run from €192.00 to €305.00 on September 21, 2026, depending on the sailing and on whether you take a deck space, a seat or a cabin.
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 the operator is charging, by departure date.
September 21, 2026
€192.00
BRITTANY FERRIES
This crossing was checked for one date, and that is the only date we hold a fare for. The operator sells the rest of the season.
The ferry gets you into Santander. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.
A room in Santander for the night the ferry gets in
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When to book Portsmouth to Santander
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €68.5490 days
- €60.8360 days
- €64.1445 days
- €69.0830 days
- €55.8921 days
- €65.7914 days
- €76.247 days
- €101.543 days
- €140.591 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 21 days ahead, at €55.89.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 152 percent. The most expensive point is €140.59, 1 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 21 days ahead. You are inside that window.
This corridor, specifically
Facts that apply to Portsmouth to Santander and to no other route on the site.
Clocks
10:04 → 13:42
1 hours ahead on arrival. The clock moves even though you do not.
The shape of it
883 km
841 km as the crow flies, 5% further by the route services actually take. The bearing runs south.
Who lives at each end
208,100 → 173,635
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 actually looks like
Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.
- Direct or connecting
- 33% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 67% involve one connection.
- How far it really runs
- The route covers 883 km against 841 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 Bournemouth, Weymouth. The gap between arriving and leaving is 59 minutes, of which about 14 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 16 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 SDR into Santander is the one price on this trip we cannot show you, because it is not ours.
A car waiting when you land in Santander
Settled in advance, so the ride into Santander 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 Santander
Most of the points near Santander open before the first train and close after the last one.
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Questions about Portsmouth to Santander
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 Santander?
The fastest journey from Portsmouth to Santander takes 26h 38m door to door, of which 26h 42m is spent moving, on the ferry. Most services take around 28h 42m, 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 Santander?
The cheapest fare from Portsmouth to Santander is €54.79, as of September 15, 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €80.64. 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 Santander?
The cheapest way from Portsmouth to Santander is by ferry, at €65.79 for one passenger on October 5, 2026. That journey takes 28h 12m 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 Santander?
Fares from Portsmouth to Santander bottom out around 21 days before departure, at €55.89. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the most expensive lead time is 152 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 Portsmouth to Santander?
Tuesday is the cheapest day to depart from Portsmouth to Santander, at €65.79. 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 Portsmouth to Santander?
February is the cheapest of the next 5 months to travel from Portsmouth to Santander, at €44.89 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 Santander?
1 operators sell services from Portsmouth to Santander 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 Santander?
33 percent of the services we sell from Portsmouth to Santander are direct. The rest connect at Bournemouth, Weymouth, with about 59 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 Santander use?
Services from Portsmouth to Santander by ferry leave from PORTSMOUTH and arrive at Embarcadero de Santander. 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 Santander?
1 of the 1 operators we sell from Portsmouth to Santander 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 Santander on September 15, 2026: 883 km of route against 841 km in a straight line, 3 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €54.79, and 26h 38m 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 Santander a set of days out that do not start at a station. We do not sell those either.
Day trips out of Santander and across Spain
Day trips that leave Santander 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. Santander reaches 120 places in 12 countries, from 64 to 2,384 km.
Other ways to make this journey
Leaving Portsmouth
- 79Places you can leave for
- 3Countries
- 7Operators
Arriving in Santander
Leaving Santander
- 120Places you can leave for
- 12Countries
- 14Operators