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Lyon (Gerland Bus Station) to Marseille (Saint-Charles)

3 operators run this water, from 3 h 45 to 192 h 00 — a difference of 188 h 15 on the same crossing. Marseille (Saint-Charles) has an airport 19 km from the quay, so this is a crossing you can make one way and fly the other.

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.

FlixBus-eu Lyon (Gerland Bus Station) → Marseille (Saint-Charles) 273 km on the coach 3 h 45 rate not held 73 km/h average
Emerald Cruises Lyon (Gerland Bus Station) → Marseille (Saint-Charles) 275 km crossing 192 h 00 rate not held 1 km/h average
Scenic Cruises Lyon (Gerland Bus Station) → Marseille (Saint-Charles) 275 km crossing 192 h 00 rate not held 1 km/h average

Other ways to reach Marseille (Saint-Charles)

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

And other ways to reach Lyon (Gerland Bus Station)

Where else these quays go

Which months this runs

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

Our records for the Lyon (Gerland Bus Station)–Marseille (Saint-Charles) 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. The choice between FlixBus-eu at 3 h 45 and Scenic Cruises at 192 h 00 is mostly a price decision, and we hold no prices for either.

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