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Cowes: ferry departures & arrivals today

50°46′N 1°18′W · GBCOW

122 departures today · 122 arrivals · 2 operators · 2 routes

Today at Cowes

  1. 89 earlier departures today not shown
  2. SouthamptonAt sea, estimatedRed Funnel
  3. East CowesAt sea, estimatedCowes Floating Bridge
  4. Now ·
  5. East CowesScheduledCowes Floating Bridge
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  11. SouthamptonScheduledRed Funnel
  12. East CowesScheduledCowes Floating Bridge
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  21. SouthamptonScheduledRed Funnel
  22. East CowesScheduledCowes Floating Bridge
  23. East CowesScheduledCowes Floating Bridge
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  29. 7 more departures later today: each route has its full board

Ferries from Cowes

Ships near Cowes

0 ships at sea
Cowes
  • Floating Bridge # 6live · position from 1 min ago
  • Red Eagle · declared destination: SOUTHAMPTONlive · position from 1 min ago
  • Red Jet 7 · declared destination: COWESlast known position · position from 21 min ago
  • Oeg Fulmar · declared destination: COWES IOWlast known position · position from 23 min ago
  • Farra Machalast known position · position from 23 min ago

Ferry operators at Cowes

Departures from Cowes in the next 14 days, by operator (published timetables) · 25 Oct – 7 Nov
OperatorSun25Mon26Tue27Wed28Thu29Fri30Sat31Sun1Mon2Tue3Wed4Thu5Fri6Sat7
Cowes Floating Bridge108117117117117117117108117117117117117117
Red Funnel1421212121212414212121212124

Punctuality of departures from Cowes

16%
on time
74 sailings · 30 days

average delay 12 min

How we measure

Weather at sea

TodaySun 25 OctTomorrowMon 26 Oct
Wind from W 20–23 knBeaufort 5–6 · strong breezewaves 0.4–0.5 m12 °CWind from SW 16–24 knBeaufort 4–6 · strong breezegusts 26 knwaves 0.3–0.8 m12–16 °Cprecipitation up to 0.9 mm/hvisibility down to 4.4 km

Forecast issued 25 Oct, 12:13. 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.

About the port of Cowes

From Cowes, ferries sail to 2 destinations: East Cowes and Southampton. Departures from Cowes are operated by 2 companies: Cowes Floating Bridge and Red Funnel. Cowes Floating Bridge runs 1,620 of the 1,906 departures in the next 14 days.

Today’s first departure is at 00:00 for East Cowes, the last at 23:50 for East Cowes. Over the next seven days 953 departures are scheduled, between 122 and 141 a day.

Crossings from Cowes take from 3 min (to East Cowes) to 25 min (to Southampton). The nearest other ferry port on ferrywhere is East Cowes, 1 km away as the crow flies.

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