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Bay of Biscay ferries: every route and today's departures

Spain’s north coast on the Bay of Biscay, where ferries from Santander and Bilbao sail to Britain and Ireland.

9 routes · 5 ports · 1 operator

Today on these routes

All 2 routes running normally

Key
  • Normal service
  • Be aware
  • Disruptions
  • Cancelled

Live data today on 2 of 4 routes with sailings; for the others we only have the published timetable.

Routes

Bay of Biscay: ferries in figures

All 9 routes listed here are run by Brittany Ferries. Over the next 7 days the timetables list 16 sailings on these routes; the ports with the most departures are Bilbao (4), Portsmouth (4) and Santander (4).

9 of these routes are international: United Kingdom (6) and Ireland (3). By timetable, the shortest crossing is Plymouth → Santander (20 h 22 min) and the longest Portsmouth → Bilbao (33 h).

One of these routes has no sailing scheduled in the next 7 days.

Ships at sea now

1 ship at sea
Map with 5 ports and 1 ship at sea

Coastline: Natural Earth

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Sources

Timetables come from official open data:

  • Source : transport.data.gouv.fr — Licence Ouverte 2.0 (licence)

Methodology & sources