Baleària Schedules 2026

Baleària runs Almería to Melilla in 390 minutes — six and a half hours — with two departures, at 16:30 and 23:59. That pairing of an afternoon and a midnight sailing on the same route is the detail worth reading.

An afternoon boat and a midnight boat

The two departures serve different travellers. The 16:30 arrives in Melilla late in the evening and costs you an afternoon; the 23:59 arrives in the morning and costs you a night’s sleep instead of a day. On a six-and-a-half-hour crossing that choice is worth more than any fare difference, and it is the first thing to decide.

Three operators on one corridor

Almería to Melilla is worked by Baleària, by Trasmediterránea and by Naviera Armas, with crossing times of 390, 360 and 420 minutes respectively. Very few routes on this site carry three separate carriers. It reflects the fact that Melilla, as a Spanish city on the African coast with no land link to Spain, generates enough year-round traffic to support them.

Which makes the timetable a comparison exercise

Because the alternatives exist, the useful question here is not whether a sailing runs but which of the three suits the hour you need. The differences are real — an hour of crossing time between the fastest and slowest, and departure times spread from mid-afternoon to just before midnight.

The Balearics are where this operator is best known

Baleària takes its name from the Balearic Islands and its principal network links them to Valencia, Dénia and Barcelona; it also works the Strait of Gibraltar. None of that appears in our data. What is on this page is one North African crossing, not a summary of the company.

We could not read the operator’s own site

The company’s website was behind a protection layer that blocked our requests, so fares, vessel details and current frequency are not covered here. On a route with three competing carriers, checking the operator directly is worth doing anyway — the published times move with season and demand.