Prices tracked over time — dated readings

Sète–Ajaccio ferry

From €30.00one-way · Corsica Ferries · 29 September 2026See this price with Corsica Ferries — 29 September 2026

Price recorded on 29 September 2026 · you book on Corsica Ferries's own site.

When is the ferry cheapest?

The Sète–Ajaccio ferry is cheapest in September (from €30.00) and most expensive in October (around €42.00). Tuesday is usually the cheapest day to sail.

How long is the crossing?

The Sète–Ajaccio crossing takes about 14 hrs with Corsica Ferries.

How far ahead should you book?

For 1 adult foot passenger, reclining seat on Sète–Ajaccio, the average recorded price is about €43.60 when booking less than 7 days before departure, versus €38.82 when booking more than 90 days ahead. The lowest fare observed, €30.00, appears when booking 1 to 2 months ahead.

Where is it cheapest to sail from?

For 1 adult foot passenger, reclining seat heading to Ajaccio, the cheapest port is Toulon: from €28.20 one-way with Corsica Ferries, for a departure on 28 October 2026 (€39.01 on average). Comparing departure ports often brings the fare down.

By travel option

Travel optionFromCompanyDate
1 adult foot passenger, reclining seat€30.00Corsica Ferries29 September 2026

One-way prices, total basket for the travel party.

Prices by month

354045SeptOct1 adult foot passenger, reclining seatup to €42.00
Month1 adult foot passenger, reclining seat
avg.Lowest price
September 2026€30.00€30.00
October 2026€42.00€42.00

Prices by day of the week

30Tue42Sun
DayAverage price
Tuesday€30.00
Sunday€42.00

Where to sail from for less

Departure portCountryLowest priceAverage priceCheapest company
ToulonFR€28.20€39.01Corsica Ferries
SèteFR€30.00€36.00Corsica Ferries
NiceFR€30.90€32.95Corsica Ferries
MarseilleFR€34.92€39.45La Méridionale

Which company

CompanyCheapest datesLowest priceAverage price
Corsica Ferries2€30.00€36.00

In practice

according to the operator.

Corsica Ferries

Crossing
overnight
Duration
about 14 hrs
Frequency
generally 1 departure a week in season
Schedule
departure in the late afternoon, arrival around 08:00 the next morning
Boarding
30 min before departure on foot, 1 hr with a vehicle

The cheapest round trip

Cheapest round trip observed: €64.20 — outward on 29 September 2026 (Corsica Ferries, €30.00), return on 26 October 2026 (Corsica Ferries, €34.20).

Total of two separately observed crossings; prices remain one-way.

The 8 cheapest dates

DateDayCompanyPrice
29/09/2026TuesdayCorsica Ferries€30.00View
25/10/2026SundayCorsica Ferries€42.00View

€30.00 on Tuesday 29 September 2026: that is the cheapest crossing in our readings of 22 August 2026 on Sète–Ajaccio, for an adult foot passenger in a reclining seat, with Corsica Ferries. Only one company appears on this route, and for now our readings cover the foot-passenger profile alone. The observed window is limited to September and October 2026.

Sète–Ajaccio: what our readings show

Across the two recorded departures, the average settles at €36.00 with Corsica Ferries, against a floor of €30.00. The two dates read in a straight line: €30.00 on Tuesday 29 September 2026, €42.00 on Sunday 25 October 2026. From one month to the next, the same foot-passenger crossing goes from €30.00 to €42.00.

Only two departure days appear: Tuesday, at €30.00 on average, and Sunday, at €42.00. Each carries only a single reading, so here the day and the month coincide: the September Tuesday marks the low point, the October Sunday the high point.

For a round trip, the combination recorded pairs the Tuesday 29 September 2026 outbound at €30.00 with an Ajaccio–Sète return on Monday 26 October 2026 at €34.20, for €64.20 in total, with Corsica Ferries in both directions.

September 2026 at the floor, October 2026 at the peak

September 2026 is the cheapest month of the window: €30.00, minimum and average alike, on the 29 September departure. October 2026 climbs back to €42.00, again minimum and average alike, with Sunday 25 October.

The gap therefore holds within five euros between the only two months recorded. June, July and August 2026 do not appear in our readings of 22 August 2026, nor do the winter months; the comparison stops at the two months observed. These gaps read as a window of a few weeks, not as a year-round seasonality.

An overnight crossing, one departure a week

Corsica Ferries describes an overnight crossing of about fourteen hours: departure in the late afternoon, arrival around 08:00 the next morning. The service the company advertises is seasonal, generally with one departure per week. Boarding, according to the company, is 30 minutes before departure on foot and 1 hour with a vehicle.

That weekly rhythm limits the number of dates on offer. Few departures mean few points of comparison — each observed date carries that much more weight in how the prices read.

Leaving from another port for Ajaccio

Other ports appear in our readings towards Ajaccio. Toulon holds the lowest floor: from €28.20 with Corsica Ferries for a departure on 28 October 2026, at €39.01 on average. Nice starts at €30.00 on 29 September 2026 with Corsica Ferries, at €36.00 on average. Marseille follows at €30.90 on 22 August 2026 with La Méridionale, the only other company appearing in this comparison between departure ports, at €32.95 on average.

On the entry price, Sète brings up the rear with its €34.92. On the average, the order turns around: Sète moves up to second at €39.45, behind Toulon (€39.01) but ahead of Nice (€36.00) and Marseille (€32.95). The port with the highest floor in this comparison is also the one whose prices sit most tightly together: the entry price and the average level do not rank the ports in the same order.

What these readings cover

Our readings deal with a single profile: an adult foot passenger in a reclining seat. Vehicle-inclusive compositions and cabins are not yet recorded on this route. The window is limited to September and October 2026; the other months do not appear in it.

What remains is what the figures say as of 22 August 2026: on Sète–Ajaccio, the same foot-passenger crossing moves from €30.00 on 29 September to €42.00 on 25 October 2026.