Papa Westray: ferry departures & arrivals today
59°20′N 2°53′W · GBPPW
3 departures today · 3 arrivals · 1 operator · 3 routes
Next departure
No more departures today.
Today at Papa Westray
Ferry operators at Papa Westray
| Operator | Sun25 | Mon26 | Tue27 | Wed28 | Thu29 | Fri30 | Sat31 | Sun1 | Mon2 | Tue3 | Wed4 | Thu5 | Fri6 | Sat7 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Orkney Ferries | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 4 |
Weather at sea
| TodaySun 25 Oct | TomorrowMon 26 Oct |
|---|---|
| Wind from NW 40–43 knBeaufort 8–9 · strong galegusts 60 knwaves 2.7–2.9 m10–11 °Cprecipitation up to 1.1 mm/hvisibility down to 4.1 km | Wind from W 16–43 knBeaufort 4–9 · strong galegusts 58 knwaves 1.2–2.9 m10–13 °Cprecipitation up to 2.5 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 Papa Westray
From Papa Westray, ferries sail to 3 destinations: Pierowall, Kirkwall and Rapness. All departures listed here are operated by Orkney Ferries.
Today’s first departure is at 15:30 for Pierowall, the last at 19:20 for Pierowall. Over the next seven days 31 departures are scheduled, between 3 and 7 a day.
Crossings from Papa Westray take from 20 min (to Pierowall) to 2 h 35 min (to Kirkwall). The nearest other ferry port on ferrywhere is Pierowall, 5 km away as the crow flies.