Kirkwall: ferry departures & arrivals today
58°59′N 2°58′W · GBKWL
7 departures today · 7 arrivals · 2 operators · 9 routes
Next departure
Lerwick
Scheduled
Today at Kirkwall
Ferries from Kirkwall
- Shapinsaynext Mon 26 Oct 08:15 · 3 today
- Edaynext Mon 26 Oct 07:00 · 1 today
- Lerwicknext 23:15 · 1 today
- Rapnessnext Mon 26 Oct 07:20 · 1 today
- Sandaynext Mon 26 Oct 07:40 · 1 today
- Stronsaynext Mon 26 Oct 07:00 · 1 today
- Aberdeennext Mon 26 Oct 23:15 · none today
- North Ronaldsaynext Sat 31 Oct 08:00 · none today
- Papa Westraynext Tue 27 Oct 13:30 · none today
Ships near Kirkwall
- Varagen · declared destination: NORTH_ISLES/KWLlive · position from 1 min ago
- Earl Thorfinn · declared destination: KIRKWALL&NORTH-ISLESlive · position from 1 min ago
- Earl Sigurd · declared destination: KIRKWALL/NORTH-ISLESlive · position from 2 min ago
- Nordic Sea · declared destination: KIRKWALLlast known position · position from 87 min ago
Ferry operators at Kirkwall
| Operator | Sun25 | Mon26 | Tue27 | Wed28 | Thu29 | Fri30 | Sat31 | Sun1 | Mon2 | Tue3 | Wed4 | Thu5 | Fri6 | Sat7 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Orkney Ferries | 6 | 12 | 12 | 15 | 13 | 13 | 10 | 6 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 13 | 10 |
| NorthLink Ferries | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | – | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Weather at sea
| TodaySun 25 Oct | TomorrowMon 26 Oct |
|---|---|
| Wind from NW 30–34 knBeaufort 7–8 · galegusts 41 knwaves 1.7–1.9 m9 °Cprecipitation up to 1.2 mm/hvisibility down to 3.2 km | Wind from W 12–30 knBeaufort 4–7 · near galegusts 38 knwaves 0.4–2.0 m9–12 °Cprecipitation up to 3.8 mm/hvisibility down to 1.9 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 Kirkwall
From Kirkwall, ferries sail to 9 destinations; those with the most sailings are Shapinsay, Rapness and Eday. Departures from Kirkwall are operated by 2 companies: Orkney Ferries and NorthLink Ferries. Orkney Ferries runs 158 of the 170 departures in the next 14 days.
Today’s first departure is at 11:30 for Shapinsay, the last at 23:15 for Lerwick. Over the next seven days 88 departures are scheduled, between 7 and 16 a day.
Crossings from Kirkwall take from 25 min (to Shapinsay) to 8 h 15 min (to Lerwick). The nearest other ferry port on ferrywhere is Shapinsay, 6 km away as the crow flies.