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Rio de Janeiro to Salvador de Bahia

2 operators run this water, from 48 h 00. Salvador de Bahia has an airport 22 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.

Costa Cruises Rio de Janeiro → Salvador de Bahia 1210 km crossing 48 h 00 rate not held 25 km/h average
MSC Cruises Rio de Janeiro → Salvador de Bahia 1210 km crossing not held rate not held

Other ways to reach Salvador de Bahia

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

Maceio – Salvador de Bahia 24 h 00 Costa Cruises, MSC Cruises
Santos – Salvador de Bahia 72 h 00 Costa Cruises, MSC Cruises
Barcelona – Salvador de Bahia 288 h 00 MSC Cruises
Itaparica Island – Salvador de Bahia not held Travessia Mara­tima Salvador-Mar Grande
Morro de Sao Paulo – Salvador de Bahia not held Catamara Biotur

And other ways to reach Rio de Janeiro

Santos – Rio de Janeiro 24 h 00 Costa Cruises, MSC Cruises
Itajai – Rio de Janeiro 72 h 00 Costa Cruises, MSC Cruises
Buenos Aires – Rio de Janeiro 96 h 00 Azamara Cruises, Costa Cruises
Bridgetown – Rio de Janeiro 288 h 00 Azamara Cruises, Scenic Cruises
Santa Cruz de Tenerife – Rio de Janeiro 312 h 00 Ponant Cruises, Scenic Cruises
Tarragona – Rio de Janeiro 312 h 00 MSC Cruises
Lisbon (Oriente) – Rio de Janeiro 336 h 00 Costa Cruises
San Juan – Rio de Janeiro 336 h 00 Crystal Cruises
Barcelona – Rio de Janeiro 360 h 00 Costa Cruises, MSC Cruises
Ushuaia – Rio de Janeiro 360 h 00 Seabourn Cruises

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 Rio de Janeiro–Salvador de Bahia 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.