Trogir to Hvar by Boat: Every Way to Do It in a Day

26 August 2026 · 6 min read

Hvar in a day from Trogir is real, but the three ways to do it give you very different days. The ferry via Split is cheap and slow, our Blue Cave tour ends with free time in Hvar town, and a private charter makes Hvar the whole point.

You can do Hvar in a day from Trogir, and there are exactly three honest ways to do it. A public route by ferry via Split, our Blue Cave tour, which ends its day with free time in Hvar town, and a private charter built around Hvar itself. They cost very different amounts and give you very different days, so here is each one as it actually is, including the one we earn nothing from.

First, the geography nobody tells you

There is no scheduled ferry from Trogir to Hvar. The ferries and catamarans that serve the islands, Šolta, Brač, Hvar and Vis, leave from Split, not from Trogir. So the public-transport version of this day starts with getting to Split first: bus 37 runs every 20 to 30 minutes and takes about an hour, or a car or taxi does it in 25 to 35 minutes on the D8, longer in July and August when the Kaštela stretch backs up. Our Split to Trogir transport guide covers that leg in detail.

Option one: the ferry via Split, cheap and slow

From Split you catch a scheduled boat to Hvar. Timetables on these routes are seasonal and change from year to year, so check the current schedule for the week you travel rather than planning around what ran last summer. The honest arithmetic is four transit legs in one day, two out and two back, and an itinerary shaped by the last boat home rather than by you. It is the cheapest way to stand in Hvar town, and if all you want is a wander through the old streets and lunch on the harbour, it works. What it gives you none of is the water: no swim stops, no quiet coves, no Pakleni Islands. You arrive with the day-trip crowds and leave with them too.

Option two: the Blue Cave tour, which ends its day in Hvar town

Our Blue Cave tour is not a Hvar trip, and we would rather say so than sell it as one. It is a full ten-hour speedboat day at €110 per person, leaving Trogir Riva at 06:30 with a maximum of twelve guests: the Blue Cave on Biševo around 10:00, then Komiža, Stiniva Cove and the Budikovac Lagoon on and around Vis, and finally free time in Hvar town from about 2:00 PM. That is enough for lunch at a harbour restaurant and a look at the old town, or the fortress if you walk quickly. The boat leaves Hvar at 4:30 PM and is back in Trogir around 6:00 PM.

So Hvar is the last of six stops rather than the point of the day. If what you actually want is the cave, the open-sea islands and a taste of Hvar at the end, this is the best-value way to set foot there from Trogir. Two honest warnings. The minimum age is 8 and the tour is not recommended for anyone with back problems, because of the long, fast open-water crossing. And lunch, the cave entrance ticket and Hvar's peak-season town entrance fee are all paid on the spot, not included in the €110. The full stop-by-stop day is in our Komiža, Biševo and Vis guide.

Option three: the private Hvar and Pakleni charter

If Hvar is the reason for the day, this is the trip built for it. The private Hvar and Pakleni charter gives you your own speedboat and skipper from €1200 per boat, for up to twelve guests, over roughly nine to ten hours. You leave Trogir in the morning and are in Hvar town by late morning, with free time for the marble streets, the fortress and the harbour cafés. Around midday you cross to the Pakleni Islands, the scatter of green islets just offshore ringed by some of the clearest water in the Adriatic, for swimming and a relaxed lunch at Palmižana or a quiet bay of your choice, then cruise home in the late-afternoon light.

The price sounds different once you divide it: with twelve on board, €1200 is €100 a head for a whole day shaped entirely around your group. It includes the skipper, fuel, harbour fees, snorkelling gear, towels, drinking water and passenger insurance. Lunch and drinks ashore, Hvar's peak-season entry fee and the skipper's tip are not. A 25% deposit confirms your date, the balance is paid on the day, and cancellation is free up to 48 hours before departure. One planning note straight from the boat: it is a longer day, so an earlier start is recommended.

Want Hvar and the Blue Cave in one private day? The Blue Cave and 5 Islands charter, from €1300 per boat, runs the big open-sea route with a stop in Hvar or the Pakleni Islands on the way home.

Which one should you actually book

• Tightest budget, town only: the ferry route via Split. Cheapest, slowest, and the day runs on the timetable, not on you.
• The cave and the islands, with Hvar as the finale: the Blue Cave tour. €110, ages 8 and up, the most sights per euro on this coast.
• Hvar as the whole point: the private Hvar and Pakleni charter. From €1200 per boat, your route and your pace, with the Pakleni swims no ferry passenger gets.

Honest planning notes

The charter season runs May to October, and every departure here is weather-dependent, with the skipper making the final call for safety. If Hvar in a day matters to your trip, put it in the middle of your stay rather than on your last morning, so a windy day still leaves room to rebook. And if you are still weighing Hvar against the other days out, our guide to every day trip from Trogir puts them side by side.

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