Prices tracked over time — dated readings

Sète–L'Île-Rousse ferry

From €40.00one-way · Corsica Ferries · 15 September 2026See this price with Corsica Ferries — 15 September 2026

Price recorded on 15 September 2026 · you book on Corsica Ferries's own site.

When is the ferry cheapest?

The Sète–L'Île-Rousse ferry is cheapest in September (from €40.00, around €40.50 on average) and most expensive in September (around €40.50). Tuesday is usually the cheapest day to sail.

How long is the crossing?

The Sète–L'Île-Rousse crossing takes about 14 hrs with Corsica Ferries.

How far ahead should you book?

For 1 adult foot passenger, reclining seat on Sète–L'Île-Rousse, the average recorded price is about €38.92 when booking less than 7 days before departure, versus €37.00 when booking more than 90 days ahead. The lowest fare observed, €31.00, appears when booking 8 to 14 days ahead.

Where is it cheapest to sail from?

For 1 adult foot passenger, reclining seat heading to L'Île-Rousse, the cheapest port is Savone: from €34.80 one-way with Corsica Ferries, for a departure on 17 September 2026 (€37.60 on average). Comparing departure ports often brings the fare down.

How often do prices move, and by how much?

Out of 99 detected price changes since 1 July 2026, 45.5% are decreases (averaging 5.7%) and 54.5% are increases (averaging 5.8%).

-5.7%Decreases5.8%Increases

By travel option

Travel optionFromCompanyDate
1 adult foot passenger, reclining seat€40.00Corsica Ferries15 September 2026

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

Prices by month

Month1 adult foot passenger, reclining seat
avg.Lowest price
September 2026€40.50€40.00

Prices by day of the week

DayAverage price
Tuesday€40.50

Where to sail from for less

Departure portCountryLowest priceAverage priceCheapest company
SavoneIT€34.80€37.60Corsica Ferries
ToulonFR€36.30€41.38Corsica Ferries
NiceFR€37.00€40.00Corsica Ferries
SèteFR€40.00€40.50Corsica Ferries
MarseilleFR€54.10€60.43Corsica Linea

Which company

CompanyCheapest datesLowest priceAverage price
Corsica Ferries2€40.00€40.50

In practice

according to the operator.

Corsica Ferries

Crossing
overnight
Duration
about 14 hrs
Frequency
one departure a week from April to September
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: €76.00 — outward on 15 September 2026 (Corsica Ferries, €40.00), return on 28 September 2026 (Corsica Ferries, €36.00).

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

The 8 cheapest dates

DateDayCompanyPrice
15/09/2026TuesdayCorsica Ferries€40.00View
22/09/2026TuesdayCorsica Ferries€41.00View

€40.00 on Tuesday 15 September 2026: that is the cheapest crossing ahead in our readings of 14 September 2026 on Sète–L'Île-Rousse, for an adult foot passenger in a reclining seat, with Corsica Ferries — the only company observed on the route. For now our readings cover this single foot-passenger profile, and the window is limited to September 2026.

Sète–L'Île-Rousse: what our readings show

The cheapest dates read as follows: €40.00 on Tuesday 15 September 2026, then €41.00 on Tuesday 22 September 2026. The two departures recorded fall on the same weekday and in the same month, and the price ranking runs against the calendar: the latest departure is the cheapest, the nearest one the dearest.

A single departure day appears in our readings, Tuesday, whose average, €40.50, is the same figure as the month's. No other weekday carries a recorded departure on this route, which leaves nothing to compare between days: here the price turns on the exact date, not on the day chosen.

For a round trip, the best combination recorded leaves on 15 September 2026 at €40.00 and comes back on 28 September 2026 at €36.00, for €76.00 in total, both legs with Corsica Ferries. The return leg costs slightly more than the outward one, and it does not fall on the same weekday.

September 2026, the only month recorded

The lowest price of the window, €40.00, falls on 15 September 2026, and the monthly average settles at €40.50. September 2026 is the only month recorded on Sète–L'Île-Rousse: it therefore carries both the lowest and the highest average of the window, and no month-to-month comparison is possible here. The months that follow do not appear in our readings of 14 September 2026.

Across all dates, the company comes out at €40.50 on average, for a floor of €40.00. On a route with one month and one departure day recorded, the monthly average, the day average and the company average are one and the same figure — the only case where those three readings coincide, and it says nothing beyond the line's timetable.

An overnight crossing, one departure a week

Corsica Ferries describes an overnight crossing of about fourteen hours, with a late-afternoon departure and an arrival around 08:00 the next morning. The company advertises one departure a week from April to September. On foot, boarding opens half an hour before departure, against an hour with a vehicle.

That weekly cadence shows in our readings: the departures follow one another seven days apart, from 22 September 2026 to 15 September 2026. A route with one departure a week leaves few dates to choose from, and the price moves all the less from one to the next.

Again according to the company, the port of Sète is reached from Occitanie and Nouvelle-Aquitaine; it is the westernmost of the ports our readings cover towards L'Île-Rousse.

Leaving from another port for L'Île-Rousse

Other ports serve L'Île-Rousse in our readings. Savona, on the Italian side, posts the lowest entry price: from €34.80 with Corsica Ferries for a departure on 17 September 2026, at €37.60 on average. Toulon follows at €36.30 on 10 October 2026 (€41.38 on average) and Nice at €37.00 on 3 October 2026 (€40.00 on average), again with Corsica Ferries. Marseille, run by Corsica Linea, stays apart: from €54.10 on 23 September 2026, for €60.43 on average.

On the entry price, Sète ties with Toulon among the Corsica Ferries ports: €40.00, recorded on 15 September 2026, behind Savona and ahead of Nice, whose floor is the highest of the four. On the average the order changes — Nice holds the lowest average (€40.00), closely followed by Sète (€40.50), then Savona (€37.60) and Toulon (€41.38): the port with the highest floor is also the one with the lowest average, and Sète, tied for second-to-last place at the floor, climbs to second rank as soon as the everyday price is read. Only Marseille breaks clearly away, at €60.43 on average. Leaving from Sète, the crossing is never the cheapest, but it is never expensive either.

What these readings cover

The observed profile is limited to an adult foot passenger in a reclining seat; compositions with a vehicle and cabins are not recorded to date on this route. The window, for its part, narrows to September 2026. As of 14 September 2026, the finding comes down to two figures: on the departures recorded, the foot-passenger crossing Sète–L'Île-Rousse does not leave the €40.00€41.00 band.