Every crossing, side by side

Reading the table

Per day is the frequency the operator declares for the route; times is how many actual clock times its published timetable gives us. An operator can declare a frequency without listing every departure behind it, so the two columns disagree more often than you would expect — and where they do, the declared frequency is the one to trust.

Each direction is its own row for the same reason: the return leg is a separate publication, often with a different first departure and a different number of runs. The shortest crossing here is Gåshaga → Hasseludden at 1 min, the longest Bodø → Stamsund at 3h 55m; 88 take a quarter of an hour or less, which is why so many Norwegian fjord crossings feel more like a set of traffic lights than a boat trip.

Distance in nautical miles is held for 150 of the 190 crossings, so it lives on the individual route pages rather than in this table — a column that is blank for a fifth of the rows sorts badly and compares worse.