Vis: four boats in the whole register, and the priciest car on the water

Four boats, and that is the entire list

Most Croatian islands are described by what they have. Vis is better described by what it does not: no bridge, no second mainland gateway, no through-boat from Dubrovnik. The register reflects that. Four entries touch the island, and one of them never reaches the mainland at all.

Line	Route	Vessel	Cars	Status
602	Vis – Split	Car ferry	Yes	State line
612	Komiža – Biševo	Passenger ship	No	State line
9602	Vis – Hvar – Milna – Split	Catamaran	No	State line
no number	Split – Bol – Hvar – Vis	Catamaran	No	Commercial, no PSO

Line 602 is the spine: a Jadrolinija car ferry, Split to Vis, two sailings a day off-season and three in high season between 3 July and 20 September. Line 9602 is a state catamaran taking in Hvar and Milna. The Jadrolinija commercial catamaran from Split by way of Bol and Hvar carries no public service obligation. Line 612 touches no mainland port at all — it runs Komiža to Biševo.

The cost of the car

Vehicle fares on line 602 are the highest verified in the 2026 tariff bundle, and the gap between travelling on foot and travelling with a car is wider here than on any crossing the register prices.

On foot the same crossing is €9.10 in season and €7.20 outside it. A car over five metres is €88.50. A motorcycle is €15.50 and a bicycle €9.10. Those are one-way, per vehicle, and they do not include the passengers inside it.

The honest recommendation is to arrive on foot and hire locally if you need wheels. The same logic applies on Hvar, where only one vehicle service reaches the main town, but the arithmetic is starker here because the alternative is a single ferry.

Komiža to Biševo is one of the rare ones

Line 612 is one of only 5 routes in the register that run island to island and touch no mainland port. It is a passenger ship, it carries no vehicles, and it exists because Biševo has residents. Treat it as a service, not an excursion product: it is listed as a state line with a public service obligation, which is why it appears in the register at all.

Two sailings, and what they do to a day

Off-season line 602 runs twice a day each way; between 3 July and 20 September it runs three times. That is the whole vehicle capacity of the island and most of its passenger capacity. It is enough to live on and not enough to improvise with, and the difference between two rotations and three is the difference between an overnight and a day trip.

Outside high season, treat Vis as somewhere to sleep rather than somewhere to visit. With two sailings there is a boat out in the morning and a boat back later, and no third option if the day overruns. In high season the extra rotation makes a day trip workable, and the state catamaran on line 9602 adds a faster alternative by way of Hvar and Milna for anyone travelling on foot.

Why no through-boat calls here

The register shows no line at all between Vis and Korčula, Mljet or Dubrovnik. The commercial through-boats that make the southern chain work — Split to Hvar to Korčula to Dubrovnik — do not divert to it, and the single commercial line that does reach Vis comes from Split by way of Bol and Hvar and terminates there.

So Vis cannot be slotted into a southbound itinerary. You arrive from Split and you return to Split to continue, which adds a leg that neither Korčula nor Hvar demands. That is a real cost in a one-week trip and no cost at all in a two-week one, and it is the clearest argument for treating this island as a destination in itself rather than a stop.

What do you need to work out next?

Vis is settled. These are the next decisions.

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Ferry data: Agencija za obalni linijski pomorski promet (ZOLPP), 2026 state coastal line register and per-line timetables.

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