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Sandbanks to Shell Bay ferry times and today's sailings

Sandbanks Ferry · 5 min · 49 sailings today

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First sailing
07:00
usual time
Last sailing
23:00
usual time
Crossing time
5 min
Sailings a week
343

Map

0 ships at sea
SandbanksShell Bay

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

Operators on this route

OperatorSailings in the next 7 daysCrossing time
Sandbanks Ferry3435 min

Timetable

Next 7 days · local time in Sandbanks
Sun 25 Oct – Sat 31 Oct07:0007:2007:4008:0008:2008:4009:0009:2009:4010:0010:2010:4011:0011:2011:4012:0012:2012:4013:0013:2013:4014:0014:2014:4015:0015:2015:4016:0016:2016:4017:0017:2017:4018:0018:2018:4019:0019:2019:4020:0020:2020:4021:0021:2021:4022:0022:2022:4023:00

Timetable published from 22 Oct 2026 to 22 Jul 2027.

Weather at sea

PlaceTodaySun 25 OctTomorrowMon 26 Oct
Sandbanks
SandbanksWind from W 21 knBeaufort 5gusts 22 knwaves 1.5 m11 °CWind from SW 16–27 knBeaufort 4–6 · strong breezegusts 32 knwaves 1.4–2.1 m11–16 °Cprecipitation up to 1.2 mm/hvisibility down to 4.0 km
Shell Bay
Shell BayWind from W 20–21 knBeaufort 5gusts 22 knwaves 1.5 m11 °CWind from SW 18–27 knBeaufort 5–6 · strong breezegusts 32 knwaves 1.4–2.1 m12–16 °Cprecipitation up to 1.5 mm/hvisibility down to 4.0 km

Forecast issued 25 Oct, 12:08. 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 Sandbanks to Shell Bay today?

There are 49 sailings today from Sandbanks to Shell Bay: the first at 07:00, the last at 23:00.

How long is the ferry from Sandbanks to Shell Bay?

The crossing takes 5 min.

Which ferry companies sail from Sandbanks to Shell Bay?

The route is operated by Sandbanks Ferry.

What time is the first and last ferry from Sandbanks to Shell Bay?

The first ferry usually leaves at 07:00 and the last at 23:00, local time in Sandbanks.

How often does the ferry from Sandbanks to Shell Bay run?

343 sailings are scheduled in the next 7 days.

About this route

Sandbanks Ferry currently sails from Sandbanks to Shell Bay 49 times a day, every day. The first departure is usually at 07:00 and the last at 23:00; on the busiest days most departures are 20 minutes apart.

The crossing takes 5 min.

The return crossing from Shell Bay to Sandbanks has the same number of sailings a week.

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