Route · AU

Cairns to Papeete

1 operator run this water, from 624 h 00. Papeete has an airport 5 km from the quay, so this is a crossing you can make one way and fly the other.

Getting from Cairns to Papeete

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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.

Scenic Cruises Cairns → Papeete 6831 km crossing 624 h 00 rate not held 11 km/h average

Other ways to reach Papeete

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

Lautoka – Papeete 240 h 00 Lindblad Expeditions, Norwegian Cruise Line

Honolulu – Papeete 264 h 00 Norwegian Cruise Line, Oceania Cruises

Auckland – Papeete 288 h 00 Azamara Cruises, Crystal Cruises

Easter Island Chile – Papeete 360 h 00 Lindblad Expeditions

Callao-Lima – Papeete 384 h 00 Crystal Cruises, Seabourn Cruises

Valparaiso-Santiago – Papeete 384 h 00 Lindblad Expeditions, Phoenix Reisen

Noumea – Papeete 408 h 00 Hapag Lloyd Cruises

San Diego – Papeete 408 h 00 Crystal Cruises, Silversea Cruises

Sydney – Papeete 408 h 00 Azamara Cruises, Oceania Cruises

Los Angeles – Papeete 432 h 00 Oceania Cruises, Phoenix Reisen

And other ways to reach Cairns

Dunedin – Cairns 240 h 00 Ponant Cruises

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

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 · Dunedin · Fitzroy Island · Green Island · Kuranda · Lautoka · Port Moresby · Sydney

Also from Papeete

Auckland · Benoa · Bremerhaven · Callao-Lima · Colon · Easter Island Chile · Honolulu · Hullo - Vancouver Ferry Terminal · Lautoka · Los Angeles · Manila · Melbourne · Miami · Noumea

Which months this runs

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

Our records for the Cairns–Papeete 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.