Portsmouth to Le Havre ferry times and today's sailings

Brittany Ferries · 6 h 30 min · 1 sailing today · 175 km

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11:00

Scheduled

Brittany Ferries

Tomorrow’s sailings

Updated 20:11

11:00Brittany FerriesScheduled

Today’s sailings

Updated 20:11

11:00Brittany FerriesArrived, estimated
Now · 20:11

Usual departure: 11:00; usual time
Crossing time: 6 h 30 min
Sailings a week: 7
Distance: 175 km; 94.6 nmi

Map

2 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
Brittany Ferries	7	6 h 30 min

Timetable

Next 7 days · local time in Portsmouth

Sun 25 Oct – Sat 31 Oct	11:00

Timetable published from 22 Oct 2026 to 25 Oct 2027.

Weather at sea

Place	TodaySun 25 Oct	TomorrowMon 26 Oct
Portsmouth
Portsmouth	Wind from W 21–23 knBeaufort 5–6 · strong breezewaves 0.5 m12 °C	Wind from S 17–27 knBeaufort 5–6 · strong breezegusts 30 knwaves 0.3–0.9 m13–17 °Cprecipitation up to 0.8 mm/hvisibility down to 3.8 km
Mid-crossing
Mid-crossing	Wind from W 23–25 knBeaufort 6 · strong breezegusts 35 knwaves 2.8–3.2 m15 °C	Wind from SW 17–26 knBeaufort 5–6 · strong breezegusts 38 knwaves 1.8–2.7 m14–17 °Cprecipitation up to 0.9 mm/h
Le Havre
Le Havre	Wind from W 21–23 knBeaufort 5–6 · strong breezewaves 1.6–1.9 m14 °C	Wind from S 15–22 knBeaufort 4–6 · strong breezewaves 0.6–1.5 m11–16 °Cprecipitation up to 0.3 mm/h

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 Portsmouth to Le Havre today?

There is 1 sailing today from Portsmouth to Le Havre, at 11:00.

How long is the ferry from Portsmouth to Le Havre?

The crossing takes 6 h 30 min.

Which ferry companies sail from Portsmouth to Le Havre?

The route is operated by Brittany Ferries.

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

The ferry usually leaves at 11:00, local time in Portsmouth.

How often does the ferry from Portsmouth to Le Havre run?

7 sailings are scheduled in the next 7 days.

About this route

Brittany Ferries currently sails from Portsmouth to Le Havre once a day, every day. The ferry usually leaves at 11:00.

The crossing covers 175 km (94.6 nmi) and takes 6 h 30 min. The route links the UK and France, and Le Havre is one hour ahead of Portsmouth.

The published timetable changes on 9 November 2026: from then on there are 7 sailings a week, compared with 3 before. Guillaume de Normandie has sailed this route in the last 30 days. From Portsmouth, ferries also sail to Caen-Ouistreham, Saint-Malo, Cherbourg and 2 more.

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