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Lerwick to Bressay ferry times and today's sailings

Shetland Ferries · 7 min · 20 sailings today

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First sailing
06:15
usual time
Last sailing
23:00
usual time
Crossing time
7 min
Sailings a week
171

Map

0 ships at sea
LerwickBressay

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

Operators on this route

OperatorSailings in the next 7 daysCrossing time
Shetland Ferries1717 min – 8 min

Timetable

Next 7 days · local time in Lerwick
Sun 25 Oct06:1506:4507:1508:0009:0010:4512:3013:0014:3015:3016:3017:1518:0018:3019:0020:0020:3021:3022:0023:00
Mon 26 Oct – Thu 29 Oct06:1506:4507:1508:0008:2008:4009:0010:0011:0012:0013:0013:3014:3015:3016:1016:3017:1518:0018:3019:0020:0020:3021:3022:0023:00
Fri 30 Oct01:0006:1506:4507:1508:0008:2008:4009:0010:0011:0012:0013:0013:3014:3015:3016:1016:3017:1518:0018:3019:0020:0020:3021:3022:0023:0023:59
Sat 31 Oct01:0006:1506:4507:1508:0009:0010:0011:0012:0013:0013:3014:3015:3016:3017:1518:0018:3019:0020:0020:3021:3022:0023:0023:59

Timetable published from 22 Oct 2026 to 22 Jul 2027.

Weather at sea

PlaceTodaySun 25 OctTomorrowMon 26 Oct
Lerwick
LerwickWind from W 14–20 knBeaufort 4–5gusts 33 knwaves 2.0–2.3 m10 °Cprecipitation up to 0.5 mm/hWind from SE 10–26 knBeaufort 3–6 · strong breezegusts 42 knwaves 0.7–2.8 m9–12 °Cprecipitation up to 1.5 mm/hvisibility down to 2.6 km
Bressay
BressayWind from W 15–21 knBeaufort 4–5gusts 33 knwaves 1.9–2.3 m10 °Cprecipitation up to 0.5 mm/hWind from W 11–26 knBeaufort 4–6 · strong breezegusts 42 knwaves 0.8–3.0 m9–12 °Cprecipitation up to 1.5 mm/hvisibility down to 2.5 km

Forecast issued 25 Oct, 15:08. 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 Lerwick to Bressay today?

There are 20 sailings today from Lerwick to Bressay: the first at 06:15, the last at 23:00.

How long is the ferry from Lerwick to Bressay?

The crossing takes 7 min.

Which ferry companies sail from Lerwick to Bressay?

The route is operated by Shetland Ferries.

What time is the first and last ferry from Lerwick to Bressay?

The first ferry usually leaves at 06:15 and the last at 23:00, local time in Lerwick.

How often does the ferry from Lerwick to Bressay run?

171 sailings are scheduled in the next 7 days.

About this route

Shetland Ferries currently sails from Lerwick to Bressay every day, 20 to 27 times a day. The first departure is usually at 06:15 and the last at 23:00.

The crossing takes 7 min. In the next 14 days, 4 of the 342 sailings arrive the day after they leave.

From Lerwick, ferries also sail to Aberdeen and Out Skerries. The return crossing from Bressay to Lerwick has the same number of sailings a week.

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