Metro Ferry Schedules 2026

Metro Ferry crosses the Mactan Channel between Cebu City and Lapu-Lapu City — a strait already spanned by two bridges. The boat exists because the bridges are congested, not because there is no road.

Half-hourly, from six in the morning

Our timetable holds 31 departures on Cebu City to Lapu-Lapu City, running every day of the week from 06:00 to 21:00 and timetabled at 30 minutes. That is a service built for commuters: a fifteen-hour operating day at close to hourly frequency, seven days a week, with no seasonal variation in the data.

The bridges are the competition

Mactan Island carries Cebu’s international airport, and the road bridges to it are heavily used. A thirty-minute boat that avoids them entirely is competing on journey-time reliability rather than on distance — the same logic as a commuter river service in a European city, which is an unusual thing to find on a Philippine crossing.

What this listing does not have

Two honest gaps. First, we hold only the Cebu to Lapu-Lapu direction — there is no return leg in our data, although the service plainly runs both ways. Second, this operator publishes no website that we have been able to find, so the schedule here comes from open mapping data rather than from the company.

Which means confirm before you rely on it

A crossing with no operator-published timetable is one where the listed times should be treated as indicative. Departures on short urban water crossings in the Philippines are frequently adjusted for weather, tide and demand, and a service with no website has no channel to announce that. Check at the terminal on the day rather than planning a connection around a specific sailing.

Why it is worth listing anyway

Thirty-one daily departures is a real service carrying real commuters, and it is close to invisible online. Leaving it out because the operator has no marketing presence would make this site less useful, not more accurate — so it is here, with the limits of the data stated rather than hidden.