Orkney Ferries: ferry status today, routes and timetables
54 routes · 5 ships · 22 sailings today
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Status today
1 of 1 routes with delays or cancellations
Key
- Normal service
- Be aware
- Disruptions
- Cancelled
Measured today on 1 of 12 routes with sailings; for the others we only have the published timetable.
Departures in the next 2 hours
Fleet now
- Earl SigurdIn port at Kirkwall
- Earl ThorfinnIn port at Kirkwall
- VaragenIn port at Kirkwall
- Hoy HeadLast seen at 19:05
- EynhallowNo recent position
Routes
- Rousay – Tingwall1 sailing today25 min
- Tingwall – Rousay1 sailing today25 min
- Kirkwall – Shapinsay3 sailings today25 min
- Rousay – Wyre5 min
- Shapinsay – Kirkwall3 sailings today25 min
- Houton – Lyness35 min
- Lyness – Houton35 min
- Wyre – Tingwall40 min
- Tingwall – Wyre40 min
- Graemsay – Stromness35 min
- Papa Westray – PierowallNext departureScheduled3 sailings today20 min
- Pierowall – Papa Westray3 sailings today20 min
- Stromness – Graemsay15 min
- North Hoy – Stromness30 min
- Stromness – North Hoy30 min
- Houton – Flotta55 min
- Wyre – Rousay10 min
- Egilsay – Rousay30 min
- Egilsay – Tingwall1 h
- Flotta – Houton55 min
- Egilsay – Wyre15 min
- Lyness – Flotta20 min
- Flotta – Lyness20 min
- Graemsay – North Hoy15 min
- Kirkwall – Rapness1 sailing today1 h 25 min
- Rapness – Kirkwall1 sailing today1 h 25 min
- Eday – Kirkwall1 h 15 min
- Kirkwall – Eday1 h 55 min
- Kirkwall – Sanday1 h 25 min
- Kirkwall – Stronsay1 sailing today1 h 40 min
- Sanday – Kirkwall1 h 25 min
- Stronsay – Kirkwall1 sailing today1 h 40 min
- North Hoy – Graemsay15 min
- Flotta – Longhope20 min
- Houton – Longhope2 sailings today1 h 20 min
- Longhope – Flotta23 min
- Longhope – Houton2 sailings today1 h 20 min
- Longhope – Lyness40 min
- Lyness – Longhope40 min
- Stronsay – Eday35 min
- Eday – Stronsay35 min
- Sanday – Eday20 min
- Eday – Sanday20 min
- Kirkwall – Papa Westray2 h 5 min
- Papa Westray – Kirkwall2 h 35 min
- Stronsay – Sanday35 min
- Kirkwall – North Ronaldsay2 h 40 min
- North Ronaldsay – Kirkwall3 h 10 min
- Papa Westray – Rapness1 h 45 min
- Rapness – Papa Westray40 min
- Sanday – Stronsay35 min
Also in the timetable
- Rousay → Egilsay
- Tingwall → Egilsay
- Wyre → Egilsay
Punctuality
89 sailings · 30 days · average delay 8 min
- On time
- 75%
- 67
- Late
- 25%
- 22
- On time (up to 5 min): 67 (75%)
- 5–15 min late: 8 (9%)
- 15–30 min late: 4 (4%)
- Over 30 min late: 10 (11%)
- Half of the departures leave within 2 min of the scheduled time.
- When a departure is late, the typical delay is 24 min.
About Orkney Ferries
Orkney Ferries runs 54 routes in the timetables we follow, calling at 20 ports in the United Kingdom. Over the next 7 days they add up to 254 scheduled departures. The connection with the most sailings is Rousay – Tingwall: 78 in the two directions. On one of these routes Orkney Ferries has no sailing scheduled in the next 7 days: Sanday → Stronsay.
Timetabled crossing times range from 5 min (Rousay → Wyre) to 3 h 10 min (North Ronaldsay → Kirkwall).
We know 5 ships of the Orkney Ferries fleet: Earl Sigurd, Earl Thorfinn, Eynhallow, Hoy Head and Varagen. Over the last 30 days we measured 89 departures; 75% of them left on time.