What a ferry to Corsica really costs in 2026

Since 12 June 2026, we have been recording the real prices of France–Corsica crossings on the companies' official websites, for departures running from 13 June 2026 to 30 June 2027. Eight mainland ports serve Corsica — four in France (Marseille, Toulon, Nice, Sète), four in Italy (Genoa, Savona, Livorno, Piombino) — via four companies: Corsica Ferries, Corsica Linea, La Méridionale and Moby Lines.

A fifth company now joins the wider picture, though not this scope: Cors'Express connects Italy to Bastia (Livorno, Genoa, and lately Civitavecchia) as a foot-passenger fast ferry, deck passage with no cabin — it does not serve France–Corsica and so enters none of this article's figures.

What these readings show comes down to three gaps. For two adults with a car, the median crossing reaches €273.20 on July 2026 departures and drops to €144.00 from January to June 2027 — €129.20 between the trough of the window and high summer, that is +89.7%. The port of departure weighs €16.01 on the same median between Toulon and Marseille. The day of the week, €8.84 between Thursday and Saturday.

A ferry price, then, is not a single figure: it is a range, and it depends on when you leave, from where, and with whom. Here are the full ranges, by traveller profile, exactly as we observed them — every figure is dated, none is an estimate. Upstream, if the choice between boat and plane is not yet settled, going to Corsica by ferry weighs the pros and the cons — convenience, budget and carbon footprint.

Which ports to leave from, and with which companies

The mainland has eight ports to Corsica in our readings. The price analysis that follows focuses on the three French ports that serve all five Corsican coasts (Marseille, Toulon, Nice); the table below places each port and its carrier or carriers.

The Italian ports serve only the north of Corsica, Bastia above all. Marseille, Toulon and Nice each serve all five recorded Corsican coasts; Marseille is the only French port served by two companies (Corsica Linea and La Méridionale).

The median price of a crossing to Corsica today

The table below gives, for each profile, the median of all our readings leaving from Marseille, Toulon and Nice (half of the observed prices fall below it, the other half above), along with the minimum and maximum actually encountered.

How to read this: a couple with a car in reclining seats most often pays around €148.23 one way. The same profile was observed at €54.03 at its lowest (Corsica Ferries) — and at €561.84 at its highest in a reclining seat (Corsica Linea). Across all profiles, the floors are set by Corsica Ferries; the ceilings go to La Méridionale on the two foot profiles as well as on the motorised couple, and to Corsica Linea on the motorised family (summer cabins). The gap between the floor and the ceiling of a single profile runs from 1 to 23 for the motorised family and reaches 1 to 41 for the lone adult.

These amounts are one-way fares, at the standard non-resident rate, all taxes included, as displayed at the moment of recording.

Why medians rather than averages or "from" prices? Because the median describes what a traveller actually encounters, whereas the minimum describes only the best deal and the average is dragged upward by the summer ceilings — up to €884.01 for a motorised couple in a cabin, with La Méridionale. All three readings appear in the table; they do not tell the same story, and we label them systematically.

The price varies along 4 axes; here they are, and by how much

Every figure in this section concerns the most common profile in our readings: two adults with a car, in reclining seats.

The month of departure: the heaviest axis

In our readings, the median settles at €188.01 on August 2026 departures and at €160.73 in September 2026, then falls back to €145.73 in October and again in December 2026, with November 2026 sitting just below at €144.25, before hitting its floor at €144.00 from January to June 2027 — six months at the same level. Above all these months, July 2026, whose departures have now passed, keeps the highest median of the window: €273.20. Between this high summer and the winter trough: €129.20, that is +89.7%. Among departures still to come, the peak therefore goes to August 2026.

The size of this gap depends on the profile. For a lone adult on foot in a reclining seat, the median reaches €83.61 on that same July 2026 against €39.00 in February as in March 2027: €44.61, that is +114.4% — the foot passenger takes, in proportion, an even sharper swing.

The detailed calendar, week by week, is the subject of a dedicated article: when to book your ferry to Corsica.

The day of the week: a secondary axis, but a free one

Thursday carries the lowest median (€144.00), ahead of Tuesday and Wednesday (€145.73); Saturday and Sunday share the highest (€152.84), with Friday just below it (€151.00). Shifting your departure from the weekend to Thursday is worth €8.84 on the median, that is 5.8% — without changing anything else about the trip.

The port of departure: €16.01 of median gap

Toulon posts the lowest median (€144.00), ahead of Nice (€146.20) and Marseille (€160.01). The Toulon–Marseille gap reaches €16.01, that is 11.1% — even before you choose your date. The three ports do not offer the same trip (overnight crossings from Marseille, shorter routes from Toulon and Nice).

The port of arrival: €35.97 of median gap

At a constant profile — always the motorised couple in reclining seats — the destination chosen also shifts the median. Each floor is shown with the company that displayed it:

From Porto-Vecchio to Propriano, €35.97 separate the medians. The floors tell a different story: it is towards Ajaccio (€54.03) and Bastia (€74.09) that the lowest deals appear, even though neither of the two is the cheapest on the median. All of them carry the signature of Corsica Ferries. A less central arrival port can therefore cost more on the median while staying far from the summer ceilings of the major routes.

The company: comparing what is comparable

In our readings, the median for the motorised couple in reclining seats settles at €128.01 with La Méridionale, €144.00 with Corsica Ferries and €163.23 with Corsica Linea. Read with care: these three figures do not cover the same routes. La Méridionale and Corsica Linea operate from Marseille; Corsica Ferries from Toulon and Nice. The only comparison on identical ground is Marseille–Corsica, between La Méridionale and Corsica Linea — and it holds a quirk, summed up in the box below.

The "real" price: what the home page does not show

The car. For two adults, going from foot-passenger status (€90.22 median in a reclining seat) to that of a motorised crew (€148.23) adds €58.01 to the median. It is the first surcharge on the ticket, before the cabin.

The cabin. For that same motorised couple, the cabin lifts the median from €148.23 to €181.00: +€32.77. For a lone adult on foot, the seat-to-cabin gap is more marked in proportion: €46.78 against €86.00, that is +83.8%. Conversely, for a family of four with a car, the cabin median (€237.00) exceeds the reclining-seat one (€220.47) by only €16.53, that is +7.5% — a case where the night in a cabin costs little. Set against the price paid, the cabin supplement therefore shrinks as the number of travellers rises.

Taxes and levies. The price shown at the end of booking aggregates items that the home page does not break down: the passenger crossing, the vehicle, the cabin, port taxes, security and carbon offset are melted into a single figure. On a Bastia–Toulon crossing of 1 November 2026 (one adult, car, cabin, Corsica Ferries), this total came to €105.00 — where the home page shows only a "from" price that isolates none of them.

How to pay less: 4 concrete levers

• The month. +89.7% of median between the January-June 2027 trough and high summer in July 2026 for a motorised couple, +114.4% for a foot passenger. If your dates are flexible, this is the dominant lever — the full calendar is here.
• The day. Thursday rather than Saturday: €8.84 of median, for anyone who can shift by 48 hours.
• The port. Toulon rather than Marseille: €16.01 on the median of the motorised couple — to weigh against the road trip and the appeal of an overnight crossing (the real price levers).
• The profile. Reclining seat rather than cabin when the crossing is by day (+€32.77 of median for a motorised couple), and a systematic check of both companies on Marseille — the gap observed for a single crossing reached €125.87 (Marseille–Ajaccio of 30 August 2026, one adult, car and cabin: €284.19 with La Méridionale against €410.06 with Corsica Linea).

These four levers stack. The family floor of our corpus — €76.03 for two adults, two children and a car in reclining seats — was observed with Corsica Ferries, on a departure from Toulon to Ajaccio on 17 May 2027. Among departures still to come, the same profile in a cabin peaks at €773.47, with Corsica Linea, leaving Marseille for Bastia, on 28 August 2026. Between the two, almost everything comes down to these four choices.

As of 22 August 2026, the lowest ticket in our entire France–Corsica corpus in deck passage remained a one-way adult fare at €14.26, with Corsica Ferries, on a departure from Ajaccio to Toulon on 28 June 2026. The floor in a reclining seat leaving from the three French ports stands at €18.76, with Corsica Ferries, on a Toulon–Bastia of 24 October 2026.