Lyness: ferry departures & arrivals today
58°50′N 3°11′W · GBLYS
4 departures today · 4 arrivals · 1 operator · 3 routes
Next departure
No more departures today.
Today at Lyness
Ferries from Lyness
Ships near Lyness
- Flotta Lass · declared destination: FLOTTAlive · position from under a minute ago
- Herston Lass · declared destination: FLOT HOUTlive · position from under a minute ago
- Hoy Head · declared destination: SCAPA FLOWlast known position · position from 9 min ago
Ferry operators at Lyness
| Operator | Sun25 | Mon26 | Tue27 | Wed28 | Thu29 | Fri30 | Sat31 | Sun1 | Mon2 | Tue3 | Wed4 | Thu5 | Fri6 | Sat7 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Orkney Ferries | 4 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 4 |
Weather at sea
| TodaySun 25 Oct | TomorrowMon 26 Oct |
|---|---|
| Wind from NW 37–44 knBeaufort 8–9 · strong galegusts 64 knwaves 1.8–2.1 m9–10 °Cprecipitation up to 1.1 mm/hvisibility down to 3.8 km | Wind from W 14–38 knBeaufort 4–8 · galegusts 55 knwaves 0.6–1.8 m9–13 °Cprecipitation up to 4.5 mm/hvisibility down to 1.8 km |
Forecast issued 25 Oct, 12:00. 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 Lyness
From Lyness, ferries sail to 3 destinations: Houton, Flotta and Longhope. All departures listed here are operated by Orkney Ferries.
Today’s first departure is at 09:15 for Houton, the last at 17:15 for Longhope. Over the next seven days 42 departures are scheduled, between 4 and 7 a day.
Crossings from Lyness take from 20 min (to Flotta) to 40 min (to Longhope). The nearest other ferry port on ferrywhere is Flotta, 4 km away as the crow flies.