Cherbourg to Dublin runs about 3 times a day, with the first departure around 06:45 and the last around 07:30. One passenger pays £31.39, every fee included. Services cover 573 km and are run by 1 operator across 1 mode.
What one seat costs
Every operator we hold on this corridor starts at £31.39, so there is no spread to show.
Typical fares · Priced for 20 October 2026
£31.39
- 243%Moves across the booking window
243%When it runs, leaving Cherbourg
Typical first and last departure on this corridor.
- 06:45First departure
- 07:30Last departure
- 3Services per day
- 33%Run direct
06:45
07:30
3
33%12Go issues the ticket, and you book it here on Orlero.
Buying this journey
Pick a departure for Cherbourg to Dublin and pay on tickets.orlero.com, our booking site.
The price is the one 12Go sets, with every fee shown before you pay.
Fares by date
What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.
Typical fares
- about £81.81Mon5
- about £70.03Tue6
- about £64.85Wed7
- about £52.59Thu8
- about £49.77Fri9
- about £52.13Sat10
- about £57.31Sun11
- about £39.40Mon12
- about £41.76Tue13
- about £35.16Wed14
- about £52.59Thu15
- about £41.29Fri16
- about £50.71Sat17
- about £48.35Sun18
- about £35.63Mon19
- about £31.39Tue20
- about £37.05Wed21
- about £45.05Thu22
- about £42.23Fri23
- about £39.88Sat24
- about £44.11Sun25
Based on what this route has cost recently. The live fare is confirmed when you book.
The ferry gets you into Dublin. These two partners take it from there, and the bed is theirs to book.
A room in Dublin for the night the ferry gets in
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When to book Cherbourg to Dublin
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- £34.2290 days
- £46.9460 days
- £23.8545 days
- £31.3930 days
- £44.1121 days
- £48.3514 days
- £57.317 days
- £64.853 days
- £81.811 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 45 days ahead, at £23.85.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 243 percent. The dearest point is £81.81, 1 days out.
- What that means
- Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 45 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 45 days ahead. You are inside that window.
This corridor, specifically
Facts that apply to Cherbourg to Dublin and to no other route on the site.
Clocks
1 hours behind on arrival. You land earlier than the journey suggests.
The shape of it
573 km
521 km as the crow flies, 10% further by the route services take. The bearing runs north-west.
Who lives at each end
26,655 → 1,024,027
Population at the departure city and at the arrival city, which is usually what decides how often anything runs.
The route
What the journey 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 573 km against 521 km in a straight line, a detour of 10 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
- Where the change is
- Connections are made at Brest, Nantes. The gap between arriving and leaving is 98 minutes, of which about 14 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 10 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.
Dublin is large, and the road in from DUB can take longer than the last hour of the flight. Cars are not our business.
A car waiting when you land in Dublin
Settled in advance, so the ride into Dublin costs what it said it would rather than what the rank 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.
Left luggage near Dublin Heuston
Most of the points near Dublin Heuston open before the first train and shut after the last one.
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Questions about Cherbourg to Dublin
The questions people actually ask about this journey, 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 Cherbourg to Dublin?
Cherbourg to Dublin covers 573 km. Each operator's own departure and arrival times for the date you pick are in the search at the top of this page, beside the total price.
How much does it cost to travel from Cherbourg to Dublin?
The cheapest fare from Cherbourg to Dublin is £31.39, as of 4 October 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is £45.05. 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 Cherbourg to Dublin?
The cheapest way from Cherbourg to Dublin is by ferry, at £31.39 for one passenger on 20 October 2026. The comparison table on this page shows what each mode costs side by side.
When should I book Cherbourg to Dublin?
Fares from Cherbourg to Dublin bottom out around 45 days before departure, at £23.85. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the dearest lead time is 243 percent, measured on 4 October 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.
Which day of the week is cheapest for Cherbourg to Dublin?
Wednesday is the cheapest day to depart from Cherbourg to Dublin, at £37.05. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, as of 4 October 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.
Which month is cheapest for Cherbourg to Dublin?
February is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from Cherbourg to Dublin, at £29.51 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 services from Cherbourg to Dublin?
1 operators sell services from Cherbourg to Dublin across 1 mode: Irish 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 Cherbourg to Dublin?
33 percent of the services we sell from Cherbourg to Dublin are direct. The rest connect at Brest, Nantes, with about 98 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 Cherbourg to Dublin use?
Services from Cherbourg to Dublin by ferry leave from CHERBOURG and arrive at DUBLIN. 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 Cherbourg to Dublin?
1 of the 1 operators we sell from Cherbourg to Dublin allow a change or a refund. A change on a changeable fare costs £4.28. 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 names this operator on this pair, carried through unchanged.
Prices come from the supplier wherever we hold a live quote. Elsewhere we show an indicative price built from the real distance, the real operator and a fare curve over lead time, day of the week and season. Those are labelled Estimated fare and cannot be booked.
Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon, Distances
- On this page
- Every figure above was computed for Cherbourg to Dublin on 4 October 2026: 573 km of route against 521 km in a straight line, 3 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of £31.39, and 18h 5m 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 Dublin a set of days out that do not start at a station.
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The two ends, compared
Cherbourg reaches 32 places in 3 countries on services we hold, over distances from 106 to 684 km. Dublin reaches 247 places in 53 countries, from 25 to 12,831 km.
Other ways to make this journey
Leaving Cherbourg
- 32Places you can leave for
- 3Countries
- 2Operators
3
2Arriving in Dublin
Leaving Dublin
- 247Places you can leave for
- 53Countries
- 77Operators