About 50 to 60 minutes, less when the sea is calm. The Chiquinho, the CV Interilhas boat, is often closer to 40 minutes.
This week’s boats
Ferry Mindelo – Porto Novo: this week’s times
Casa Bom Dia is the yellow house at Rua Franz Fanon 14, ten minutes from the gangway. The crossing to Santo Antão takes about an hour. Below: this week’s times, the price, and where to buy the ticket.
Checked byCristinaon 10 November
This week · 10–16 November 2026
1 500 CVE · 950 CVE
Mindelo → Porto Novo
08:00
In port about 08:50
CV Interilhas · Chiquinho · Every day
15:00
In port about 15:50
CV Interilhas · Chiquinho · Every day
Porto Novo → Mindelo
10:00
In port about 10:50
CV Interilhas · Chiquinho · Every day
17:00
In port about 17:50
CV Interilhas · Chiquinho · Every day
Times can change in rough seas; check at the port the day before.
Working board, from the crossings published on 30 October 2026: 08:00 and 15:00 from Mindelo, 10:00 and 17:00 from Porto Novo, CV Interilhas. Cristina checks the harbour every Monday and this page follows her sheet. Confirm at the terminal, or ask us the evening before.
What you need before you walk down
Visitors pay 1,500 CVE on CV Interilhas, about €14 at the fixed rate of 110.265 escudos to the euro, and about 1,470 CVE on Nôs Ferry. Residents pay 950 CVE.
At the ferry terminal in Mindelo, and in Porto Novo for the way back. CV Interilhas also sells on cvinterilhas.cv when the site is open. Take your passport.
Be at the terminal about 45 minutes before departure, with the ticket and your passport.
The channel can be lively. If the captain delays or cancels, the new time is posted at the terminal. There is no flight between these two islands. We check the evening before for anyone leaving in the morning.
About ten minutes, downhill, from the yellow door at Rua Franz Fanon 14 to the gangway. Cristina will point the way at breakfast.
The aluguer, the shared minibuses, wait just up from the quay for Ponta do Sol, the Paul valley and Tarrafal. They leave when they are full. Ask the price before you sit down. To leave sooner, you can pay the empty seats.
The second boat
Nôs Ferry, on the Mar d’Canal, also crosses this channel, on its own timetable. Those departures go on this board only after Cristina has checked them at the harbour. Until then, ask at the terminal.
Sleeping in Mindelo the night before? We’re ten minutes from the gangway.