A single company on the route
On Piombino–Bastia, our readings of 22 August 2026 bring up a single company: Corsica Ferries. Coverage is limited to August 2026, across the four traveller profiles we track, from the lone foot passenger to the motorised family. Every fare quoted below comes from these Corsica Ferries readings. Over this window, the company shows €52.00 on average for a foot passenger in a reclining seat, €115.00 for one adult with a car and a cabin, €144.00 for two adults and €192.00 for two adults and two children.
August 2026, the only month recorded
A foot passenger in a reclining seat starts at €52.00, recorded on Saturday 22 August 2026, for a monthly average of €52.00. No other month appears in the window for this route, before or after August 2026.
The packages with a car and a cabin play out on the same days, and in the same order: only the scale changes. A motorised adult pays from €115.00, recorded on Saturday 22 August 2026, for an average of €115.00. For two adults with a car and a cabin, the floor stands at €144.00, on Saturday 22 August 2026, for an average of €144.00. For two adults and two children in the same configuration, the fare drops as low as €192.00, on Saturday 22 August 2026, for an average of €192.00.
A single Saturday recorded on this route
Our readings of 22 August 2026 only cover Saturday departures on this route. No other weekday appears, which rules out any reading of a gap between days: the average for Saturday and the average for the route are the same figure, €52.00 for the foot passenger in a reclining seat.
The same holds for the motorised packages, all of which read on this single day: €115.00 for one adult with a car and a cabin, €144.00 for two adults, €192.00 for two adults and two children. A single day says nothing about the route's weekly rhythm; it only says what that one departure cost.
The cheapest dates
A single departure appears in our readings on this route, Saturday 22 August 2026, and it therefore carries both the minimum and the average across the four profiles tracked. For a foot passenger in a reclining seat, it comes to €52.00.
The motorised packages read on the same day, at staggered levels: €115.00 for one adult with a car and a cabin, €144.00 for two adults, €192.00 for two adults and two children. Without a second date, no ranking can be established: these amounts hold for this one departure, not for the route over time.
For a foot-passenger round trip, the best combination recorded pairs a departure on 22 August 2026 at €52.00 with a return on 31 August 2026 at €42.00, for €94.00 in total, entirely with Corsica Ferries.
Leaving from another port for Bastia
Piombino is not the cheapest gateway to Bastia. In our readings, the lowest minimum goes to Savona, from €28.10 one-way via Corsica Ferries for a departure on 13 October 2026, and €40.13 on average. Then comes Livorno from €25.00, then Piombino from €52.00, Toulon from €30.90 and Nice from €27.90, again with Corsica Ferries. Higher still, from Genoa, Moby Lines starts at €40.75, Sète holds €41.00, the same figure at the minimum as on the average, and leaving from Marseille, Corsica Linea opens at €46.37.
On average, the order is no longer the one of the minimums. Piombino, third on the entry fare, takes the lead at €52.00, ahead of Toulon at €39.56; Savona, the best entry fare on the list, falls back to third at €40.13, just ahead of Livorno at €40.15. Then come Sète at €41.00 and Nice at €43.78, then Genoa at €48.49; Marseille brings up the rear at €60.63. Livorno and Piombino are both Tuscan ports: from one quay to the other, the entry fare to Bastia moves from €25.00 to €52.00.