Prices tracked over time — dated readings

Sète–L'Île-Rousse ferry

From €33.00one-way · Corsica Ferries · 22 September 2026See this price with Corsica Ferries — 22 September 2026

Price recorded on 22 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 €33.00, around €38.33 on average) and most expensive in August (around €39.00). 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 €38.75 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 Toulon: from €28.00 one-way with Corsica Ferries, for a departure on 21 September 2026 (€40.25 on average). Comparing departure ports often brings the fare down.

How often do prices move, and by how much?

Out of 78 detected price changes since 1 July 2026, 46.2% are decreases (averaging 5.4%) and 53.8% are increases (averaging 5.5%).

-5.4%Decreases5.5%Increases

By travel option

Travel optionFromCompanyDate
1 adult foot passenger, reclining seat€33.00Corsica Ferries22 September 2026

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

Prices by month

333538AugSept1 adult foot passenger, reclining seatup to €39.00
Month1 adult foot passenger, reclining seat
avg.Lowest price
August 2026€39.00€39.00
September 2026€38.33€33.00

Prices by day of the week

38Tue39Wed
DayAverage price
Tuesday€38.33
Wednesday€39.00

Where to sail from for less

Departure portCountryLowest priceAverage priceCheapest company
ToulonFR€28.00€40.25Corsica Ferries
NiceFR€29.30€36.02Corsica Ferries
SavoneIT€31.40€38.80Corsica Ferries
SèteFR€33.00€38.50Corsica Ferries
MarseilleFR€44.10€61.75Corsica Linea

Which company

CompanyCheapest datesLowest priceAverage price
Corsica Ferries4€33.00€38.50

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: €72.70 — outward on 22 September 2026 (Corsica Ferries, €33.00), return on 28 September 2026 (Corsica Ferries, €39.70).

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

The 8 cheapest dates

DateDayCompanyPrice
22/09/2026TuesdayCorsica Ferries€33.00View
26/08/2026WednesdayCorsica Ferries€39.00View
08/09/2026TuesdayCorsica Ferries€41.00View
15/09/2026TuesdayCorsica Ferries€41.00View

€33.00 on Tuesday 22 September 2026: that is the cheapest crossing ahead in our readings of 22 August 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. The window covers August and September 2026.

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

The cheapest dates read as follows: €33.00 on Tuesday 22 September 2026, €39.00 on Wednesday 26 August 2026, €41.00 on Tuesday 8 September 2026, then €41.00 on Tuesday 15 September 2026. From the first to the last of this ranking, the gap holds within three euros.

Two departure days appear in our readings, and they do not tell the same story. Wednesday holds the lowest average, €39.00, ahead of Tuesday at €38.33. Yet it is a Tuesday that carries the lowest price of the window, and Tuesday dominates this ranking of floors: the most frequent day is not the one with the better average.

For a round trip, the best combination recorded left on Wednesday 22 September 2026 at €33.00 and came back on Monday 28 September 2026 at €39.70, for €72.70 in total, both legs with Corsica Ferries. The return leg cost less than the outward one.

September 2026 holds both the floor and the highest average

The lowest price of the window, €33.00, falls on Tuesday 22 September 2026. September 2026 is nonetheless the dearest month on average, at €38.33, while August 2026 sits below it, at €39.00 on average, with an entry price of €39.00 recorded on Wednesday 26 August 2026. The cheaper month on average is not the one that lands the best single date.

The spread stays narrow from one month to the next: from €39.00 to €38.33 between the lowest and the highest average. That reading holds for this two-month window, not for a year: October 2026 and the months that follow do not appear in our readings of 22 August 2026.

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 September 2026 departures follow one another seven days apart, from Tuesday 8 September 2026 to Tuesday 22 September 2026. A route with one departure a week leaves few dates to choose from, and the price moves all the less for it.

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. Toulon posts the lowest entry price: from €28.00 with Corsica Ferries for a departure on Friday 21 September 2026, at €40.25 on average. Savona, on the Italian side, starts at €29.30 on Tuesday 28 August 2026 (€36.02 on average) and Nice at €31.40 on Friday 15 September 2026 (€38.80 on average), again with Corsica Ferries. Marseille, run by Corsica Linea, stays apart: from €44.10 on Sunday 24 August 2026, for €61.75 on average.

Sète comes last among the Corsica Ferries ports on both readings. Its entry price, €33.00, recorded on Tuesday 22 September 2026, is the highest of the four; its average, €38.50, is the highest too. Nice (€38.80) comes within a euro of it, while Savona (€36.02) and Toulon (€40.25) sit further below. It is on the best single date that the departure port really weighs: Toulon drops well below Sète on one precise departure, while the averages stay close. Only Marseille, with Corsica Linea, breaks away from the pack (€61.75 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, stops at September 2026. As of 22 August 2026, the finding comes down to two figures: on the August and September 2026 departures, the foot-passenger crossing Sète–L'Île-Rousse never left the €33.00€41.00 band.