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waypoints / 🇬🇧 GB / Kirkwall, Orkney Islands – Lerwick, Shetland Timings are not live · Documented
Route · GB

Kirkwall, Orkney Islands to Lerwick, Shetland

1 operator run this water, from 40 min.

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.

Flybe KOI → LSI 137 km non-stop SF3 in the air 2 h 10 est. rate not held 204 km/h average

Other ways to reach Lerwick, Shetland

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

And other ways to reach Kirkwall, Orkney Islands

Where else these quays go

Also from Kirkwall, Orkney Islands

Aberdeen · Edinburgh · Glasgow · Inverness

Also from Lerwick, Shetland

Aberdeen · Edinburgh · Glasgow · Inverness

Which months this runs

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

Our records for the Kirkwall, Orkney Islands–Lerwick, Shetland 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.