🇫🇷France

Port de Cherbourg

Ferry port for Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, France

Cherbourg, at the tip of Normandy’s Cotentin Peninsula, is the main French port for Ireland, with sailings to Rosslare and Dublin. Brittany Ferries also sails to Portsmouth, and from November 2026 to Guernsey on a Portsmouth–Guernsey–Cherbourg triangle.

Ferries from Port de Cherbourg

3 ferry routes on FerryConnect. Tap a route for timetables, operators and booking.

To / from	Crossing time	Operators	Carries
Dublin	17h – 19h (overnight) 🌙	Irish Ferries	Cars & foot
Portsmouth	About 5h by day; about 7h 45m overnight 🌙	Brittany Ferries	Cars & foot
Rosslare	16h 00m – 17h 30m	Stena Line, Brittany Ferries	Cars & foot

Sailing patterns from Port de Cherbourg

Portsmouth → Cherbourg
Overnight sailings from Portsmouth on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 22:30 or 23:15. In October 2026 these arrive the next morning, with daytime sailings back from Cherbourg at 12:00 on Thursdays and Fridays. November 2026: 2–3 sailings a week each way, including a Sunday 08:45 daytime sailing from Portsmouth.
Poole–Cherbourg’s last sailings were on 11 October (from Cherbourg) and 12 October 2026 (from Poole); since then Portsmouth has been Brittany Ferries’ only UK port for Cherbourg. Times are local (France is an hour ahead of the UK).
Source: Brittany Ferries route page and press release, checked 2026-10-03