When to leave Bastia for Nice
On the Bastia–Nice route, every fare recorded on 1 July 2026 comes from a single carrier, Corsica Ferries. For a foot passenger with a reclining seat, the lowest average belongs to September, at €38.64, while August weighs heaviest with a €65.81 average — €27.17 more for the same ticket. From one month to the other, the foot-passenger average thus sheds more than a third of its value between the dearest and the cheapest.
July's foot-passenger floor drops to €28.20 (on 3 July 2026), lower even than September's floor of €29.60 — yet July's average, €42.60, stays above September's. July keeps a handful of very low dates drowned in a higher average, where September is low in a steadier way. Of the eight cheapest foot-passenger dates, seven fall in July, September and October; just one, 4 August at €34.00, belongs to the most expensive month.
The day-of-week effect
For a foot passenger, Monday comes out at €37.78 on average and Tuesday at €38.30, while Thursday climbs to €73.00 — nearly double Monday. Wednesday (€48.50), Friday (€51.17) and Saturday (€51.18) form an intermediate plateau, with Sunday settling at €50.53. For the car formulas, the trough shifts to Tuesday: €132.67 on average for one adult, against €235.00 on Thursday, the gap reaching €102.33 within a single week.
With a car and a cabin
Passenger, car and cabin changes the scale of the prices but keeps the same calendar. For one adult with car and cabin, September starts at €103.00 (€134.78 on average) and August rises to a €209.50 average. For two adults, you start from €127.00 in September (€167.56 on average) against €264.08 in August. For a family of two adults and two children with car and cabin, September opens at €167.00 (€216.44 on average) and August peaks at €337.83: on this profile, the jump from August to September represents €121.39 on the average. The lowest date for every car formula is the same, 20 September 2026: €103.00 for one adult, €127.00 for two, €167.00 for the family.
Leaving from another Corsican port
To reach Nice, Bastia is the departure port with the lowest floor, at €28.20 for a foot passenger (€48.92 on average). The other Corsican ports served by Corsica Ferries follow closely on the floor price: L'Île-Rousse at €29.60, Ajaccio at €30.90, Propriano at €35.00, Porto-Vecchio at €39.00. On the average, the ranking partly reverses: Porto-Vecchio posts the lowest average at €47.65, under Bastia (€48.92), while Ajaccio is the highest at €53.50. A low floor out of Bastia therefore does not guarantee the lowest average across all dates.
What these readings cover
The prices above relate to crossings recorded from June to October 2026. November and December, like the January-to-May stretch, do not appear in our data at this date. On this route, Corsica Ferries is the only carrier observed — no company comparison and no codeshare gap is possible here. The lowest foot-passenger date retained remains 3 July 2026, at €28.20.