Cherbourg to Portsmouth ferry times and today's sailings

Brittany Ferries · 5 h 45 min · 1 sailing today

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Next departure

21:45

Scheduled

Brittany Ferries

Today’s sailings

Updated 19:49

21:45Brittany FerriesScheduled

Usual departure: 12:00; usual time
Crossing time: 5 h 45 min; 5 h to 10 h 15 min
Sailings a week: 3

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1 ship at sea

Punctuality: 0 sailings measured so far, 50 needed. How we measure

Operators on this route

Operator	Sailings in the next 7 days	Crossing time
Brittany Ferries	3	5 h – 10 h 15 min

Timetable

Next 7 days · local time in Cherbourg

Sun 25 Oct	21:45
Mon 26 Oct – Wed 28 Oct, Sat 31 Oct	No sailings
Thu 29 Oct – Fri 30 Oct	12:00

Timetable published from 22 Oct 2026 to 25 Oct 2027.

Weather at sea

Place	TodaySun 25 Oct	TomorrowMon 26 Oct
Cherbourg
Cherbourg	Wind from W 16–20 knBeaufort 4–5gusts 25 knwaves 1.4–1.8 m12 °C	Wind from SW 13–20 knBeaufort 4–5gusts 25 knwaves 0.6–1.3 m10–17 °Cprecipitation up to 0.6 mm/h
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, 13:00. 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 Cherbourg to Portsmouth today?

There is 1 sailing today from Cherbourg to Portsmouth, at 21:45.

How long is the ferry from Cherbourg to Portsmouth?

The crossing takes 5 h 45 min, between 5 h and 10 h 15 min depending on the sailing.

Which ferry companies sail from Cherbourg to Portsmouth?

The route is operated by Brittany Ferries.

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

The ferry usually leaves at 12:00, local time in Cherbourg.

How often does the ferry from Cherbourg to Portsmouth run?

3 sailings are scheduled in the next 7 days.

About this route

In the coming week, Brittany Ferries sails from Cherbourg to Portsmouth on Thursday, Friday and Sunday. The ferry usually leaves at 12:00.

The crossing takes 5 h 45 min, between 5 h and 10 h 15 min depending on the sailing. In the next 14 days, 3 of the 11 sailings arrive the day after they leave. The route links France and the UK, and Portsmouth is one hour behind Cherbourg.

The published timetable changes on 2 November 2026: from then on there are 8 sailings a week, compared with 3 before. Galicia and Salamanca have sailed this route in the last 30 days. From Cherbourg, ferries also sail to Rosslare Harbour and Poole.

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