Bilbao to Portsmouth ferry times and today's sailings

Brittany Ferries · 31 h 8 min

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No departures today.

Next: Tue 27 Oct 13:00

Portsmouth → Bilbao

Usual departure: 13:00; usual time
Crossing time: 31 h 8 min; 29 h 30 min to 32 h 45 min
Sailings a week: 2

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0 ships at sea

Punctuality: 1 sailing measured so far, 50 needed. How we measure

Operators on this route

Operator	Sailings in the next 7 days	Crossing time
Brittany Ferries	2	29 h 30 min – 32 h 45 min

Timetable

Next 7 days · local time in Bilbao

Sun 25 Oct – Mon 26 Oct, Wed 28 Oct – Fri 30 Oct	No sailings
Tue 27 Oct, Sat 31 Oct	13:00

Timetable published from 24 Oct 2026 to 23 Oct 2027.

Weather at sea

Place	TodaySun 25 Oct	TomorrowMon 26 Oct
Bilbao
Bilbao	Wind from SW 4–5 knBeaufort 2gusts 9 knwaves 2.8–2.9 mwave period 12–13 s17 °Cprecipitation up to 0.2 mm/h	Wind from E 5–15 knBeaufort 2–4gusts 24 knwaves 2.0–3.4 mwave period 10–13 s13–23 °Cvisibility down to 0.6 km
Portsmouth
Portsmouth	Wind from W 21–25 knBeaufort 5–6 · strong breezewaves 0.5–0.6 m12 °C	Wind from S 17–27 knBeaufort 5–6 · strong breezegusts 29 knwaves 0.3–0.9 m13–17 °Cprecipitation up to 0.8 mm/hvisibility down to 4.5 km

Forecast issued 25 Oct, 13:09. It doesn’t tell whether a sailing will run: that is up to the operator.

Data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0). Licence: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0. Wind converted from m/s to knots and the Beaufort scale. Waves come from the nearest sea point of MET’s ocean model, which covers north-west Europe only; gusts only where MET forecasts them (the Nordic area).Weather data by Open-Meteo.com. Licence: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0. Models ECMWF IFS and ECMWF WAM (© ECMWF, CC BY 4.0), 9 km grid: wind in knots converted to the Beaufort scale, temperature at sea level, precipitation (rain, showers and snow) as the hourly total shown for the hour it falls in, waves and mean wave period from the model’s nearest sea point, visibility shown only below 5 km; nearby places in the same grid cell share the same figures.Daily lows and highs, and the hour with the most precipitation, worked out by ferrywhere. Each figure comes from MET Norway where MET forecasts it, otherwise from Open-Meteo.

Questions about this route

How many ferries are there from Bilbao to Portsmouth today?

There are no sailings today. The next one is on Tue 27 Oct 13:00.

How long is the ferry from Bilbao to Portsmouth?

The crossing takes 31 h 8 min, between 29 h 30 min and 32 h 45 min depending on the sailing.

Which ferry companies sail from Bilbao to Portsmouth?

The route is operated by Brittany Ferries.

What time is the first and last ferry from Bilbao to Portsmouth?

The ferry usually leaves at 13:00, local time in Bilbao.

How often does the ferry from Bilbao to Portsmouth run?

2 sailings are scheduled in the next 7 days.

About this route

In the coming week, Brittany Ferries sails from Bilbao to Portsmouth on Tuesday and Saturday. The ferry usually leaves at 13:00.

The crossing takes 31 h 8 min, between 29 h 30 min and 32 h 45 min depending on the sailing. All 2 sailings in the next 14 days arrive the day after they leave. The route links Spain and the UK, and Portsmouth is one hour behind Bilbao.

Galicia has sailed this route in the last 30 days. From Bilbao, ferries also sail to Rosslare Harbour. Portsmouth can also be reached by ferry from Caen-Ouistreham, Le Havre, Saint-Malo and 2 more.

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