Ferries across West Africa
24 routes and 1 operator across 1 country Fares and travel times below come from the same engine that answers the search box.
24 Ferries routes run across West Africa, reaching 6 places in 1 country through 1 operator On the 6 busiest of them, priced on October 8, 2026, the cheapest fare is €64.69 and the fastest trip is 20h 23m door to door. A median route runs 742 km.
Ferries in West Africa, in numbers
What we actually sell, counted rather than claimed.
- 24Routes we sell
- 6Corridors
- 6Places served
- 1Countries
- 1Operators
- 24Domestic routes
- 0Cross border routes
- 0Routes out of the region
- 742 kmMedian route
- 898 kmLongest route
The corridors that matter in West Africa
Ranked by how much service runs, then priced. The country and city pages carry the rest.
| Route | From | Fastest | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Diré to Koulikoro ferry | €64.69 | 20h 23m | 585 km |
| Koulikoro to Timbuktu ferry | €71.84 | 23h 34m | 655 km |
| Gao to Ségou ferry | €80.64 | 23h 47m | 738 km |
| Bourem to Ségou ferry | €81.19 | 26h 18m | 745 km |
| Koulikoro to Gao ferry | €97.14 | 28h 46m | 893 km |
| Bourem to Koulikoro ferry | €97.69 | 31h 18m | 898 km |
Countries in West Africa
Every country in West Africa we sell in, most routes first.
| Country | Routes | Places | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mali | 24 | 6 | 1 |
When to book in West Africa
The same search run at seven lead times across 3 corridors in West Africa.
- €104.293 days
- €119.697 days
- €80.6421 days
- €53.6945 days
- €77.3484 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Across the routes we sampled the typical fare is lowest around 45 days ahead, at €53.69.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 55 percent. At the most expensive point the typical fare is €119.69, 7 days out.
How far people travel to get here
Every origin we sell by Ferries, grouped by how far it is in a straight line.
| Distance | Routes | Share | Nearest of them |
|---|---|---|---|
| 200 to 600 km | 4 | 17% | Diré, 585 km |
| 600 to 1,500 km | 20 | 83% | Koulikoro, 655 km |
Ferry operators
The carriers with the largest networks inside West Africa.
Ferry destinations
Other ways to travel across West Africa
Common questions about Ferries across West Africa
How many Ferries routes does Orlero sell across West Africa?
24 of them, across 1 country reaching 6 places through 1 operator
How much does travelling by Ferries cost in West Africa?
On the 6 busiest Ferries corridors in West Africa, priced on October 8, 2026, the lowest fare is €64.69 and the median is €80.92.
Is Ferries the fastest way across West Africa?
On the corridors we priced, ferry is the only way we sell, at a median of 25h 3m door to door.
Which countries in West Africa have Ferries routes we sell?
Mali.
Who runs the Ferries services in West Africa?
Comanav, among 1 carriers we sell across West Africa.
When should I book travel across West Africa?
Fares on the corridors we sampled bottom out about 45 days before departure. Booking then rather than 7 days ahead was 55 percent cheaper on this sample.
How far apart are the places we sell in West Africa?
The median route runs 742 km in a straight line and the shortest is 585 km. The longest we sell is 898 km, from Bourem to Koulikoro.
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.
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
- Regions
- A region is a set of countries, and a route counts for it when either end is inside it. Countries are grouped from their ISO code alone, so the map grows with the data and nothing here is drawn by hand.
- The sample
- Fares, travel times and carbon are measured on the 6 highest ranked corridors in this region, spread across it rather than taken from the top, so the figures describe the region and not its busiest country.