Lerwick: ferry departures & arrivals today
60°10′N 1°09′W · GBLER
21 departures today · 21 arrivals · 2 operators · 4 routes
Next departure
Bressay
Scheduled
Today at Lerwick
Ferry operators at Lerwick
| Operator | Sun25 | Mon26 | Tue27 | Wed28 | Thu29 | Fri30 | Sat31 | Sun1 | Mon2 | Tue3 | Wed4 | Thu5 | Fri6 | Sat7 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shetland Ferries | 20 | 25 | 26 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 24 | 20 | 25 | 26 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 24 |
| NorthLink Ferries | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | 1 | 1 | 2 | – | 2 | – |
Weather at sea
| TodaySun 25 Oct | TomorrowMon 26 Oct |
|---|---|
| Wind from W 14–20 knBeaufort 4–5gusts 33 knwaves 2.0–2.5 m10 °Cprecipitation up to 0.5 mm/hvisibility down to 4.1 km | Wind from SE 10–26 knBeaufort 3–6 · strong breezegusts 42 knwaves 0.7–2.8 m9–12 °Cprecipitation up to 1.5 mm/hvisibility down to 2.8 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 Lerwick
From Lerwick, ferries sail to 4 destinations: Bressay, Aberdeen, Kirkwall and Out Skerries. Departures from Lerwick are operated by 2 companies: Shetland Ferries and NorthLink Ferries. Shetland Ferries runs 346 of the 359 departures in the next 14 days.
Today’s first departure is at 06:15 for Bressay, the last at 23:00 for Bressay. Over the next seven days 180 departures are scheduled, between 21 and 28 a day.
Crossings from Lerwick take from 7 min (to Bressay) to 12 h 30 min (to Aberdeen). The nearest other ferry port on ferrywhere is Bressay, 2 km away as the crow flies.