Ferries from Menaggio

Menaggio is the west-shore terminal at the top of the ferry triangle, and it has one characteristic that will catch people out: the last boat leaves at 20:10. Every other landing stage on this crossing runs until at least 23:20. If you are on the Menaggio side in the evening, the ferry has finished while the rest of the lake is still working.

Almost an even split, unlike its neighbours

Weekday departures divide nearly in half: 19 to Varenna and 18 to Bellagio, fifteen minutes either way, 37 in total. Sundays bring it down to 15 and 14, or 29 altogether. Compare that with Cadenabbia a few kilometres south, which sends 27 boats one way and 6 the other. Menaggio is the balanced terminal on this lake.

No boat to the town down the road

There is no ferry between Menaggio and Cadenabbia. They are the only pair of the four terminals with no service at all, and the reason is that they are both on the west shore, a short drive apart on the same lakeside road. The ferry exists to cross water, not to run alongside it — so a Menaggio-to-Cadenabbia trip is a road journey, or two boats via Bellagio.

Bicycles are a per-sailing question

The printed timetable marks individual runs with symbols, and they are not decorative. Some sailings carry no bicycles at all; others take them only if incoming vehicle traffic leaves room; a third group is specifically recommended for bikes. The marking is per sailing, not per route, so two departures fifteen minutes apart on the same crossing can give different answers.

Sunday mornings start late

Weekdays the first departure is 06:20. On Sundays and public holidays nothing leaves before 08:40 — a gap of two hours and twenty minutes, the largest weekend delay of any terminal on the crossing. Combined with the 20:35 finish, the Sunday service window here is under twelve hours.

What these numbers cover

The counts are the car ferry, summer timetable, 1 July to 4 October 2026, split into a Monday-to-Saturday document and a Sundays-and-holidays one. 15 August is treated as a Sunday. Passenger-only boats calling at Menaggio run separately and are not included here.