Houton: ferry departures & arrivals today
58°55′N 3°11′W · GBHUT
2 departures today · 2 arrivals · 1 operator · 3 routes
Next departure
No more departures today.
Today at Houton
Ferry operators at Houton
| Operator | Sun25 | Mon26 | Tue27 | Wed28 | Thu29 | Fri30 | Sat31 | Sun1 | Mon2 | Tue3 | Wed4 | Thu5 | Fri6 | Sat7 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Orkney Ferries | 2 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 3 |
Weather at sea
| TodaySun 25 Oct | TomorrowMon 26 Oct |
|---|---|
| Wind from NW 35–38 knBeaufort 8 · galegusts 60 knwaves 6.9–7.4 m8–9 °Cprecipitation up to 1.2 mm/hvisibility down to 3.2 km | Wind from W 13–34 knBeaufort 4–8 · galegusts 51 knwaves 1.6–6.6 m9–13 °Cprecipitation up to 4.2 mm/hvisibility down to 2.0 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 Houton
From Houton, ferries sail to 3 destinations: Lyness, Flotta and Longhope. All departures listed here are operated by Orkney Ferries.
Today’s first departure is at 10:00 for Longhope, the last at 16:40 for Longhope. Over the next seven days 32 departures are scheduled, between 2 and 6 a day.
Crossings from Houton take from 35 min (to Lyness) to 1 h 20 min (to Longhope). The nearest other ferry port on ferrywhere is Graemsay, 5 km away as the crow flies.