Tunis to Palermo runs about 1 times a day, with the first departure around 19:30 and the last around 19:30. One passenger pays between €19.59 and €45.57, every fee included, depending on the operator and the way you travel. The fastest door to door is 4h over 322 km, on services run by 2 operators across 2 modes.
What one seat costs
The spread between the cheapest and dearest typical fare on this corridor, across 2 operators and 2 ways of making the journey. The operator sets the price on the day.
Typical fares
€19.59 to €45.57
- 182%Moves across the booking window
When it runs, leaving Tunis
First and last sailing as the operators themselves filed them for September 17, 2026, counted in this direction only. The return crossing runs on its own timetable and this page does not speak for it.
- 19:30First departure
- 19:30Last departure
- 1Services per day
- 100%Run direct
Sailings on September 17, 2026
Real sailings, with the fares the operator is charging. Check the season before you count on one.
19:3007:3012h
GRIMALDI LINESVessel MV CATANIADirect
TUNIS → PALERMO
from €48.00deck €373.00
Vehicles carriedPets carried
Fares on the crossing run from €48.00 to €373.00 on September 17, 2026, depending on the sailing and on whether you take a deck space, a seat or a cabin.
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 the operator is charging, by departure date.
September 17, 2026
€48.00
GRIMALDI LINES
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 flight gets you into Palermo. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.
A room in Palermo for the night the flight gets in
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When to book Tunis to Palermo
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €31.1490 days
- €22.8960 days
- €24.5445 days
- €19.5930 days
- €20.1421 days
- €31.1414 days
- €30.597 days
- €49.843 days
- €55.341 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €19.59.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 182 percent. The most expensive point is €55.34, 1 days out.
- What that means
- Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 30 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 30 days ahead. You are inside that window.
This corridor, specifically
Facts that apply to Tunis to Palermo and to no other route on the site.
Clocks
1 hours ahead on arrival. The clock moves even though you do not.
The shape of it
322 km
317 km as the crow flies, 2% further by the route services actually take. The bearing runs north-east.
Who lives at each end
693,210 → 648,260
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
- 67% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 33% involve one connection.
- How far it really runs
- The route covers 322 km against 317 km in a straight line, a detour of 2 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
- Where the change is
- Connections are made at Cagliari. The gap between arriving and leaving is 103 minutes, of which about 14 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 9 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 PMO into Palermo is the one price on this trip we cannot show you, because it is not ours.
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.
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Who runs this route
The flight gets in hours before any room is ready. Holding a bag is not what we sell.
Baggage storage near Palermo Centrale
Most of the points near Palermo Centrale open before the first train and close after the last one.
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Questions about Tunis 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 Tunis to Palermo?
The fastest journey from Tunis to Palermo takes 4h door to door, of which 50m is spent moving, on the flight. Most services take around 7h 41m, 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 Tunis to Palermo?
The cheapest fare from Tunis to Palermo is €19.59, as of September 14, 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €43.21. 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 Tunis to Palermo?
The cheapest way from Tunis to Palermo is by ferry, at €26.19 for one passenger on September 29, 2026. That journey takes 11h 41m 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.
What is the fastest way to get from Tunis to Palermo?
The fastest way from Tunis to Palermo is by flight, at 4h door to door. Only 50m of that is spent moving; the remaining 3h 10m is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end. The cheapest fare on that mode is €45.57.
When should I book Tunis to Palermo?
Fares from Tunis to Palermo bottom out around 30 days before departure, at €19.59. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the most expensive lead time is 182 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 Tunis to Palermo?
Wednesday is the cheapest day to depart from Tunis to Palermo, at €26.19. 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 Tunis to Palermo?
February is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from Tunis to Palermo, at €17.94 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 Tunis to Palermo?
2 operators sell services from Tunis to Palermo across 2 modes: Grimaldi, Tunisair. 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 Tunis to Palermo?
67 percent of the services we sell from Tunis to Palermo are direct. The rest connect at Cagliari, with about 103 minutes between the two services. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is rebooked at no charge.
How much CO2 does the journey from Tunis to Palermo produce?
Traveling from Tunis to Palermo by ferry produces about 36.5 kg of CO2 per passenger, the lowest of any mode on this corridor. The same journey by Flight produces about 80.2 kg, roughly 2 times as much for one passenger.
Which station or terminal do services from Tunis to Palermo use?
Services from Tunis to Palermo by flight leave from Tunis TUN 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 Tunis to Palermo?
1 of the 2 operators we sell from Tunis 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 Tunis to Palermo on September 14, 2026: 322 km of route against 317 km in a straight line, 3 services a day, 2 operators a cheapest fare of €19.59, and 4h 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.
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.
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The two ends, compared
Tunis reaches 87 places in 32 countries on services we hold, over distances from 50 to 4,454 km. Palermo reaches 129 places in 23 countries, from 68 to 2,382 km.
Other ways to make this journey
Leaving Tunis
- 87Places you can leave for
- 32Countries
- 31Operators
Arriving in Palermo
Leaving Palermo
- 129Places you can leave for
- 23Countries
- 38Operators