Portavadie to Tarbert (Loch Fyne) ferry times and today's sailings

CalMac Ferries · 25 min · 7 sailings today

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Next departure · Tomorrow

08:30

Scheduled

CalMac Ferries

Tomorrow’s sailings

Updated 20:11

Today’s sailings

Updated 20:11

Earlier sailings

First sailing: 08:30; usual time
Last sailing: 17:30; usual time
Crossing time: 25 min
Sailings a week: 55

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0 ships 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
CalMac Ferries	55	25 min

Timetable

Next 7 days · local time in Portavadie

Sun 25 Oct	09:3010:3011:3014:3015:3016:3017:30
Mon 26 Oct – Sat 31 Oct	08:3009:3010:3011:3014:3015:3016:3017:30

Timetable published from 22 Oct 2026 to 3 Oct 2027.

Weather at sea

Place	TodaySun 25 Oct	TomorrowMon 26 Oct
Portavadie
Portavadie	Wind from W 18–23 knBeaufort 5–6 · strong breezegusts 24 knwaves 0.5–0.7 m8–9 °Cprecipitation up to 0.2 mm/h	Wind from S 11–27 knBeaufort 4–6 · strong breezewaves 0.2–1.3 m8–15 °Cprecipitation up to 4.3 mm/hvisibility down to 2.0 km
Tarbert (Loch Fyne)
Tarbert (Loch Fyne)	Wind from W 15–19 knBeaufort 4–5gusts 24 knwaves 0.3–0.5 m8–9 °Cprecipitation up to 0.2 mm/h	Wind from S 8–22 knBeaufort 3–6 · strong breezegusts 25 knwaves 0.1–0.7 m8–15 °Cprecipitation up to 4.5 mm/hvisibility down to 2.0 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 Portavadie to Tarbert (Loch Fyne) today?

There are 7 sailings today from Portavadie to Tarbert (Loch Fyne): the first at 09:30, the last at 17:30.

How long is the ferry from Portavadie to Tarbert (Loch Fyne)?

The crossing takes 25 min.

Which ferry companies sail from Portavadie to Tarbert (Loch Fyne)?

The route is operated by CalMac Ferries.

What time is the first and last ferry from Portavadie to Tarbert (Loch Fyne)?

The first ferry usually leaves at 08:30 and the last at 17:30, local time in Portavadie.

How often does the ferry from Portavadie to Tarbert (Loch Fyne) run?

55 sailings are scheduled in the next 7 days.

About this route

CalMac Ferries currently sails from Portavadie to Tarbert (Loch Fyne) every day, 8 times a day (7 times on Sunday). The first departure is usually at 08:30 and the last at 17:30; on the busiest days most departures are an hour apart.

The crossing takes 25 min.

Isle of Cumbrae has sailed this route in the last 30 days. The return crossing from Tarbert (Loch Fyne) to Portavadie has the same number of sailings a week.

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