Compare trains, buses, flights and ferries from Rijeka to Messina. From €48.03, fastest 25h 29m, with the total price and every fee shown up front.
Traveling from Rijeka to Messina costs €48.03 at the cheapest and takes 25h 29m door to door at the fastest, across 1 mode and 1 operator. The route covers 838 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 September 30, 2026.
| Mode | Door to door | Moving | At the ends | From | CO2 | Per day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ferry | 28h 27m | 26h 57m | 1h 30m | €64.14 | 96.4 kg | 1 |
Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.
Changes at Rimini, with 68 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.
Door to door 15h 8mCO2 26.1 kgChanges 1Changeable 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 Rijeka to Messina | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coach | €123.38 | €93.13 | €102.48 | €70.03 | €91.48 | €107.43 | €88.73 | €77.18 | €66.73 | €59.03 | €63.98 | €66.18 | €67.83 | €72.78 |
| Ferry | €145.54 | €119.14 | €98.79 | €94.39 | €96.04 | €126.29 | €97.69 | €78.44 | €70.19 | €64.14 | €69.09 | €71.84 | €111.99 | €82.84 |
| Train | €136.19 | €108.69 | €113.09 | €77.89 | €108.14 | €130.69 | €110.89 | €91.64 | €80.09 | €66.34 | €71.84 | €85.04 | €80.09 | €91.09 |
Cheapest day: 2026-09-30 · €48.03
That is the traveling done. What happens after you walk out into Messina is not something we sell.
Hotels and apartments near downtown, most of them with free cancellation, on a map that shows what is walkable.
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The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
Book now Fares on this route are lowest around 60 days ahead. You are inside that window.
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ANEK Lines | €55.89 | 25h 29m | 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 | €40.50 | 84% |
| Taxes | €4.05 | 8% |
| Supplier fees | €1.49 | 3% |
| Our service fee | €1.99 | 4% |
| Total you pay | €48.03 | 100% |
The ferry gets in hours before any room is ready. Holding a bag is not what we sell.
Priced by the bag and by the day, booked before you get there, and insured while it sits.
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The fastest journey from Rijeka to Messina takes 25h 29m door to door, of which 26h 57m is spent moving, on the Ferry. Most services take around 27h 27m, 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 Rijeka to Messina is €48.03, checked on September 30, 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €78.44. 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 Rijeka to Messina is by Ferry, at €64.14 for one passenger on September 30, 2026. That journey takes 28h 27m 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 Rijeka to Messina bottom out around 60 days before departure, at €37.03. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the most expensive lead time is 233 percent, measured on September 30, 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.
Monday is the cheapest day to depart from Rijeka to Messina, at €59.03. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, checked on September 30, 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.
February is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from Rijeka to Messina, at €35.38 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 Rijeka to Messina across 1 modes: ANEK Lines. 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.
20 percent of the services we sell from Rijeka to Messina are direct. The rest connect at Trieste, Rimini, Split, Ancona, with about 54 minutes between the two services. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is rebooked at no charge.
Services from Rijeka to Messina by Ferry leave from Rijeka Putnicki Terminal and arrive at Messina Rada San Francesco. 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 Rijeka to Messina 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.
Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon, Distances
The ferry is the simple part. What you do once you are in Messina is somebody else's catalog.
Day trips that leave Messina in the morning and cover a good part of Italy by evening.
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