Plymouth to Santander runs about 5 times a day, with the first departure around 06:30 and the last around 07:30. One passenger pays £41.76, every fee included. Services cover 807 km and are run by 1 operator across 1 mode.
What one seat costs
Every operator we hold on this corridor starts at £41.76, so there is no spread to show.
Typical fares · Priced for 20 October 2026
£41.76
- 175%Moves across the booking window
175%When it runs, leaving Plymouth
Typical first and last departure on this corridor.
- 06:30First departure
- 07:30Last departure
- 5Services per day
- 20%Run direct
06:30
07:30
5
20%Departures on 28 September 2026
Real departures, filed by the operators themselves. Times only, no fares.
09:15BST09:20CEST23h 5m
GWRGWR4 changes
Plymouth → Santander (Bus Station)
Bikes carriedStep-free
Book with GWR11:05BST08:00CEST43h 55m
FlixBus UK045FlixBus-gb2 changes
Plymouth Coach Station → Santander
Reservation required
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Brittany Ferries runs this service and does not sell it here. Direct Ferries takes the payment.
Buying this journey
Direct Ferries holds the sailings between these two ports, with the crossing times and the fares.
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Fares by date
What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.
Typical fares
- about £90.29Mon5
- about £79.92Tue6
- about £86.05Wed7
- about £88.88Thu8
- about £78.98Fri9
- about £70.97Sat10
- about £66.73Sun11
- about £45.05Mon12
- about £61.54Tue13
- about £48.35Wed14
- about £72.85Thu15
- about £54.96Fri16
- about £62.49Sat17
- about £61.07Sun18
- about £51.65Mon19
- about £41.76Tue20
- about £43.17Wed21
- about £53.54Thu22
- about £50.71Fri23
- about £50.23Sat24
- about £43.64Sun25
Based on what this route has cost recently. The live fare is confirmed when you book.
The ferry gets you into Santander. These two partners take it from there, and the bed is theirs to book.
A room in Santander for the night the ferry gets in
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When to book Plymouth to Santander
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- £46.4690 days
- £54.0160 days
- £32.8045 days
- £35.6330 days
- £43.6421 days
- £61.0714 days
- £66.737 days
- £86.053 days
- £90.291 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 45 days ahead, at £32.80.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 175 percent. The dearest point is £90.29, 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 Plymouth to Santander and to no other route on the site.
Clocks
09:15 → 11:17
1 hours ahead on arrival. The clock moves even though you do not.
The shape of it
807 km
768 km as the crow flies, 5% further by the route services take. The bearing runs south.
Who lives at each end
260,203 → 173,635
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
- 20% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 80% involve one connection.
- How far it really runs
- The route covers 807 km against 768 km in a straight line, a detour of 5 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
- Where the change is
- Connections are made at Paignton, Torquay, Algorta, Getxo. The gap between arriving and leaving is 70 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 14 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 SDR into Santander is set by whoever drives it.
A car waiting when you land in Santander
Settled in advance, so the ride into Santander 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 Santander
Most of the points near Santander open before the first train and shut after the last one.
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Questions about Plymouth to Santander
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 Plymouth to Santander?
Plymouth to Santander covers 807 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 Plymouth to Santander?
The cheapest fare from Plymouth to Santander is £41.76, as of 4 October 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is £62.49. 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 Plymouth to Santander?
The cheapest way from Plymouth to Santander is by ferry, at £41.76 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 Plymouth to Santander?
Fares from Plymouth to Santander bottom out around 45 days before departure, at £32.80. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the dearest lead time is 175 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 Plymouth to Santander?
Wednesday is the cheapest day to depart from Plymouth to Santander, at £48.35. 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 Plymouth to Santander?
February is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from Plymouth to Santander, at £35.63 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 Plymouth to Santander?
1 operators sell services from Plymouth to Santander across 1 mode: Brittany 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 Plymouth to Santander?
20 percent of the services we sell from Plymouth to Santander are direct. The rest connect at Paignton, Torquay, Algorta, Getxo, with about 70 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 Plymouth to Santander use?
Services from Plymouth to Santander by ferry leave from Portsmouth and arrive at Santander. 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 Plymouth to Santander?
1 of the 1 operators we sell from Plymouth to Santander 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 Plymouth to Santander on 4 October 2026: 807 km of route against 768 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of £41.76, and 25h 2m 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 Santander a set of days out that do not start at a station.
Day trips out of Santander and across Spain
Day trips that leave Santander in the morning and cover a good part of Spain by evening.
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The two ends, compared
Plymouth reaches 55 places in 3 countries on services we hold, over distances from 41 to 802 km. Santander reaches 121 places in 12 countries, from 64 to 2,384 km.
Other ways to make this journey
Leaving Plymouth
- 55Places you can leave for
- 3Countries
- 3Operators
3
3Arriving in Santander
Leaving Santander
- 121Places you can leave for
- 12Countries
- 13Operators