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Kirkwall to North Ronaldsay ferry times and today's sailings

No departures today.

Next: Sat 31 Oct 08:00
Crossing time
2 h 40 min
Sailings a week
1

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0 ships at sea
KirkwallNorth Ronaldsay

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

Operators on this route

OperatorSailings in the next 7 daysCrossing time
Orkney Ferries12 h 40 min

Timetable

Next 7 days · local time in Kirkwall
Sun 25 Oct – Fri 30 OctNo sailings
Sat 31 Oct08:00

Timetable published from 24 Oct 2026 to 1 May 2027.

Weather at sea

PlaceTodaySun 25 OctTomorrowMon 26 Oct
Kirkwall
KirkwallWind from NW 30–34 knBeaufort 7–8 · galegusts 41 knwaves 1.7–1.9 m9 °Cprecipitation up to 1.2 mm/hvisibility down to 3.2 kmWind from W 12–30 knBeaufort 4–7 · near galegusts 38 knwaves 0.4–2.0 m9–12 °Cprecipitation up to 3.8 mm/hvisibility down to 1.9 km

Forecast issued 25 Oct, 12:13. 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 Kirkwall to North Ronaldsay today?

There are no sailings today. The next one is on Sat 31 Oct 08:00.

How long is the ferry from Kirkwall to North Ronaldsay?

The crossing takes 2 h 40 min.

Which ferry companies sail from Kirkwall to North Ronaldsay?

The route is operated by Orkney Ferries.

How often does the ferry from Kirkwall to North Ronaldsay run?

1 sailing is scheduled in the next 7 days.

About this route

In the coming week, Orkney Ferries has only one sailing from Kirkwall to North Ronaldsay, on Saturday at 08:00.

The crossing takes 2 h 40 min.

Varagen has sailed this route in the last 30 days. From Kirkwall, ferries also sail to Shapinsay, Rapness, Sanday and 2 more. The return crossing from North Ronaldsay to Kirkwall has the same number of sailings a week.

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