Ustica to Palermo runs about 4 times a day, with the first departure around 07:00 and the last around 17:30. One passenger pays €11.88, every fee included. The fastest door to door is 3h 55m over 74 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
When it runs, leaving Ustica
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.
- 07:00First departure
- 17:30Last departure
- 4Services 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.
07:0008:301h 30m
LIBERTY LINESVessel NATALIE MDirect
USTICA → PALERMO
from €35.83 €40.83
E ticketPets carried
10:0011:301h 30m
LIBERTY LINESVessel LIBERTY LINESDirect
USTICA → PALERMO
from €25.25 €30.25
E ticketPets carried
15:0016:301h 30m
LIBERTY LINESVessel NATALIE MDirect
USTICA → PALERMO
from €35.83 €40.83
E ticketPets carried
17:3019:001h 30m
LIBERTY LINESVessel LIBERTY LINESDirect
USTICA → PALERMO
from €25.25 €30.25
E ticketPets carried
Fares on the crossing run from €25.25 to €40.83 on September 17, 2026, depending on the sailing and on whether you take a deck space, a seat or a cabin.
Liberty Lines 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
€25.25
LIBERTY 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 ferry gets you into Palermo. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.
A room in Palermo for the night the ferry gets in
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When to book Ustica to Palermo
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €11.8890 days
- €11.8860 days
- €11.8845 days
- €11.8830 days
- €11.8821 days
- €11.8814 days
- €11.887 days
- €11.883 days
- €11.881 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €11.88.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 0 percent. The most expensive point is €11.88, 90 days out.
- What that means
- Today sits outside the cheap window, which opens around 90 days before departure. There is no advantage to booking this minute.
Book now Fares on this route are lowest around 1 days ahead, so there is no rush yet.
This corridor, specifically
Facts that apply to Ustica to Palermo 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
74 km
68 km as the crow flies, 9% further by the route services actually take. The bearing runs south.
Who lives at each end
819 → 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.
- How far it really runs
- The route covers 74 km against 68 km in a straight line, a detour of 9 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
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 ferry 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 Ustica 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 Ustica to Palermo?
The fastest journey from Ustica to Palermo takes 3h 55m door to door, of which 2h 26m is spent moving, on the ferry. Most services take around 4h 5m, 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 Ustica to Palermo?
The cheapest fare from Ustica to Palermo is €11.88, as of September 14, 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €11.88. 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 Ustica to Palermo?
The cheapest way from Ustica to Palermo is by ferry, at €11.88 for one passenger on September 15, 2026. That journey takes 3h 56m 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 Ustica to Palermo?
Fares from Ustica to Palermo bottom out around 90 days before departure, at €11.88. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the most expensive lead time is 0 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 Ustica to Palermo?
Sunday is the cheapest day to depart from Ustica to Palermo, at €11.88. 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 Ustica to Palermo?
September is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from Ustica to Palermo, 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 Ustica to Palermo?
1 operators sell services from Ustica to Palermo across 1 mode: Liberty 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.
Is there a direct service from Ustica to Palermo?
Every service we sell from Ustica to Palermo is direct, with around 4 departures a day and a fastest journey of 3h 55m door to door. No connection is needed, so there is no missed connection risk to plan around on this corridor.
Which station or terminal do services from Ustica to Palermo use?
Services from Ustica to Palermo by ferry leave from USTICA and arrive at PALERMO. 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 Ustica to Palermo?
1 of the 1 operators we sell from Ustica 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 Ustica to Palermo on September 14, 2026: 74 km of route against 68 km in a straight line, 4 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €11.88, and 3h 55m 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
Ustica reaches 1 places in 1 countries on services we hold, over distances from 68 to 68 km. Palermo reaches 129 places in 23 countries, from 68 to 2,382 km.
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Leaving Palermo
- 129Places you can leave for
- 23Countries
- 38Operators