FerryScheduleHub.com

Worldwide ferry network

Ferry routes worldwide

Crossing times, day-by-day timetables and the operators behind them, for 3,102 routes in 27 countries — from canal hops of a single minute to a 61h passage down the Philippine archipelago.

Routes
3,102
Scheduled sailings
74,505
Ports
2,641
Countries
27

Browse ferries by country

Every country with a published timetable, grouped by the water it sits on. Norway and Sweden between them account for 60% of the routes here, which is less a statement about our coverage than about where a boat still does the work of a road.

Europe

17 countries · 2,491 routes

Fjords, archipelagos and the short sea crossings that carry cars between countries.

Asia-Pacific

5 countries · 240 routes

Inter-island services measured in days, and harbour ferries measured in minutes.

Americas

2 countries · 288 routes

Island and strait crossings on both coasts, most of them run by public agencies.

Africa

3 countries · 83 routes

Lagoon and strait services, including the Lagos waterways and the Gibraltar crossings.

Where the boats run most often

Rank every crossing by departures a week and the top of the list is not a sea crossing at all: it is city transport that happens to float. Island and fjord routes sit an order of magnitude below — a Norwegian car ferry that sails thirty times a day is a busy one. Counts come from the timetable in force today, not from the whole seasonal archive.

The ports that connect the most places

A port earns its place here by the number of separate crossings that leave it, which is a different question from how many passengers pass through. It is how you find the island chains: one quay, a dozen destinations.

How these timetables get here

We hold records for 6,638 crossings and publish 3,102 of them. The gap is deliberate: a route gets a page when there is a timetable to put on it, and all 3,102 published routes currently carry sailing times — 74,505 scheduled departures in total. A crossing we cannot show times for stays unpublished rather than becoming a page that answers nothing.

Three kinds of source feed that: operator data feeds where a company runs one, GTFS releases where a public transport authority operates the boat, and the seasonal PDF timetables that operators still publish for print. Each reload is compared against what we already hold, so an unchanged season leaves the database untouched and a withdrawn sailing is retired rather than left to rot. The most recent schedule change landed October 25, 2026.

278 of the 286 operators on the site have a written profile behind them — fleet, headquarters, contact details and the routes they actually run — because knowing which company sails a crossing is usually the step between a timetable and a ticket. Booking happens on the operator's own site; we do not sell tickets, so there is no fare we are steering you towards.

Building a trip with several crossings? The multi-stop planner chains ports into one itinerary, the destination guides cover where the boats can take you, and the travel guides answer the practical questions — luggage, cancellations, how early to arrive.

Frequently asked questions

Which countries have the most ferry routes here?

Norway (1,183), Sweden (678), Italy (373), United States (211), Philippines (79). The order follows geography rather than tourism: Norway and Sweden alone hold 60% of every route on the site, because a fjord or an archipelago turns a ferry into a piece of the road network rather than a holiday option.

What is the longest ferry crossing on the site?

Davao City to Manila in the Philippines, at 61h dock to dock. The longest passages we list are all Philippine inter-island services, where a scheduled ferry replaces a domestic flight rather than a bridge.

What is the shortest?

Crossings of a minute or two, where the boat is effectively a moving bridge — Allmänna gränd to Stockholm Skeppsholmen brygga, Alsvik (Svartsö) brygga to Trångholmen brygga, Aspö (Dalarö) brygga to Stora Segelholmen brygga. The one-minute entries are archipelago and canal hops between quays a few hundred metres apart, in Sweden's Stockholm archipelago and the Venetian lagoon, where a scheduled boat does the job a footbridge would do on land.

Do you cover city ferries and water buses?

Yes, and they dominate the frequency table: Amsterdam, Buiksloterweg to Amsterdam, Centraal Station runs about 1985 times a week, which no island route approaches. Amsterdam's free IJ ferries, the Venetian vaporetto, New York's East River services and the Hong Kong harbour crossings are all here alongside the long-distance boats.

How often are the timetables refreshed?

Continuously, on a schedule that matches how each operator publishes: a disruption feed reloads hourly, the North American set daily, and the remaining operators weekly or whenever they release a new season. Each load is compared against what we already hold, so an unchanged season does not create new rows. The most recent schedule change on the site landed October 25, 2026.

Can I book a ticket here?

No. This site publishes timetables and operator information; booking happens on the operator's own site, which is where the live availability and the fare rules actually live. Every route page names the companies that sail the crossing so you know who to book with.

Why does a crossing I know not appear?

We publish a route once there is a timetable to put on it. Of 6,638 crossings we hold records for, 3,102 are published, and all 3,102 of those carry sailing times. The rest stay unpublished rather than becoming a page that tells you nothing.