How to access the port?
The Port of Port-Vendres is easily accessible by land or sea. Below you will find a detailed map and all the practical information for your method of arrival at the port.
Map of the port
Access to the port
Distances: Port-la-nouvelle 30M, Banyuls-sur-Mer 4M, Le Cap d’Agde 49M, Saint-Cyprien 7M
Daymarks: Cap Béar 1M from the port (lighthouse and white semaphore FI(3)W.15s.80m30M)
Approach: During the day: Strong winds from NE to E, very strong swell and backwash in the vicinity of Cap Béar. Accessing the port is difficult before the breakwater shelter.
Access: Easy during the day and at night in manoeuvrable weather, breaking swell in NW winds. Port sheltered from NW (or tramontane) and SW (or downstream) winds, most frequently NW winds.
Entrance lights: Entrance channel: Shelter breakwater (42° 31.4 N – 003° 07′.0 E) FI(2)R.6s20m8M; Fort du Fanal (42° 31.3 N – 003° 06’.8 E) Oc.G.4s29m8M; Fort du Fanal beacon (SE) FI(2)G.6s9m4M; Anse Gerbal (42° 31.2 N – 003° 06’.7 E) FI(3).G.12s4m2M; Pointes des Pilotes (Harbour Pilot Points) FI(4).G.15s4m2M; Pointe de la Presqu’île (Tip of the Peninsula) FI(4)R.15s3m2M
Access alignment: 2 white quick continuous lights at 198°, 5 intensified sector lights at 3° (196°-199°), 8/10M
Signal masts: During the day and at night: 3 superimposed slow occulting lights (lum. 4s, obsc.2s); Vessel in manoeuvre, VHF 12; R/R/R :if the three red lights are switched on, entering and exiting are prohibited; 3 lights switched off: freedom to manoeuvre.
All vessels greater than 45m are subject to pilotage.
By road:
Coming from the North: Exiting Southern Perpignan – Towards Port-Vendres
Coming from Spain: Exiting Le Boulou – Towards Argelès-sur-mer, Port-Vendres
Parking:
Obelisk car park (2mn by foot)
Port car park (8 min by foot)
Place Castellane car park (10mn by foot)
Roughly one train per hour which leaves and arrives at Port-Vendres
Information and reservations at: www.sncf-connect.com
To travel to or from Perpignan, line 540
For the commune of Port-Vendres, download and consult the timetable for the urban shuttle bus here.
