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Cairns to Dunedin

1 operator run this water, from 240 h 00. Dunedin has an airport 24 km from the quay, so this is a crossing you can make one way and fly the other.

Getting from Cairns to Dunedin

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Every way across

One row per operator and speed. Where a service is sold as fast and its average does not clear 45 km/h, the word appears in quotation marks — the boat is fast craft, the crossing is not.

Ponant Cruises Cairns → Dunedin 3949 km crossing 240 h 00 rate not held 16 km/h average

Other ways to reach Dunedin

If this crossing does not suit, these quays also reach Dunedin without a change. It is the question a single-route page cannot answer about itself and an atlas can.

Lautoka – Dunedin 192 h 00 Ponant Cruises

Hobart – Dunedin 624 h 00 Aurora Expeditions

And other ways to reach Cairns

Port Moresby – Cairns 240 h 00 Emerald Cruises

Darwin – Cairns 264 h 00 Ponant Cruises, Scenic Cruises

Sydney – Cairns 264 h 00 Azamara Cruises, Regent Seven Seas Cruises

Lautoka – Cairns 312 h 00 Regent Seven Seas Cruises, Scenic Cruises

Benoa – Cairns 384 h 00 Ponant Cruises

Papeete – Cairns 624 h 00 Scenic Cruises

Fitzroy Island – Cairns not held Fitzroy Island Ferries

Green Island – Cairns not held Great Adventures

Kuranda – Cairns not held Kuranda Riverboat

Where else these quays go

Also from Cairns

Benoa · Darwin · Fitzroy Island · Green Island · Kuranda · Lautoka · Papeete · Port Moresby · Sydney

Also from Dunedin

Hobart · Lautoka

Which months this runs

Season not heldwe can say when we looked, not which months run

Our records for the Cairns–Dunedin crossing were read on 11 August 2026 and describe the network as it ran that week. We hold no month-by-month variation, so this page cannot tell you whether a crossing runs in February.

If you are travelling well outside August 2026, confirm with the operator before you plan around it.

What we do not know

No fares. Not for this crossing, not for any crossing, not for any mode.

No departure times. No rate is held for this pair either, so we cannot say how often it runs.