Charter pricing is quoted destination by destination, so a single Mediterranean number is useless. Here is the real spread, taken from the boats we actually hold rather than from teaser rates: 313 day boats with a published rate and 509 crewed weekly yachts, sorted by where they work.
Day charters: what a boat costs for one day
Across the whole book, a crewed day boat runs from 999 euros to 24,200 euros, with a median of 3,299 euros. That median is a wide fleet talking at once, so the destination table matters more than the average.
| Destination | Boats with a rate | From | Median | Up to |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sardinia | 54 | 1,000 | 3,500 | 22,150 |
| Ibiza | 43 | 999 | 3,699 | 24,200 |
| Marbella | 29 | 1,450 | 3,148 | 9,075 |
| Turkey (Antalya, Bodrum) | 22 | 1,500 | 2,699 | 6,000 |
| French Riviera | 20 | 4,000 | 8,916 | 20,000 |
| Mallorca | 20 | 1,500 | 6,050 | 17,142 |
| Barcelona | 20 | 1,650 | 3,690 | 8,935 |
| Amalfi Coast | 18 | 1,200 | 1,800 | 6,400 |
| Malta | 17 | 1,500 | 4,800 | 20,000 |
| Montenegro | 17 | 1,600 | 2,900 | 12,500 |
| Corfu | 11 | 1,650 | 2,800 | 4,450 |
| Croatia | 11 | 1,200 | 2,000 | 2,500 |
| Portugal (Vilamoura) | 10 | 1,900 | 3,000 | 6,500 |
| Sicily (Taormina) | 7 | 3,500 | 5,900 | 7,000 |
| Mykonos | 7 | 1,950 | 2,950 | 10,400 |
| Crete | 6 | 1,650 | 2,325 | 3,300 |
All figures are low season rates in euros for the whole boat, not per person.
What the table is telling you
Three things, and none of them are what people expect.
The Amalfi Coast is the cheapest famous day out in the Mediterranean. Its median day boat is 1,800 euros, less than half Sardinia's and less than half Ibiza's, because the Positano fleet is built from twelve to sixteen metre boats that do Capri and Li Galli and come home. The coastline is the luxury; the boat does not have to be.
The French Riviera is genuinely expensive and there is no cheap end. Its floor is 4,000 euros, higher than the median in ten other destinations, and its own median is 8,916 euros. If a Riviera day is the plan, budget for it or move the day to Sardinia.
Ibiza and Sardinia are the same money with different maxima. Both start under 1,100 euros and both run past 22,000. They are the two deepest day fleets we hold, which is the real reason they look flexible: there is a boat at almost every price point, so the number you pay is a choice rather than a market.
Crewed weeks: the other half of the market
509 crewed yachts in the book carry a low season weekly rate. They run from 5,600 euros to 3,500,000 euros, with a median of 112,500 euros. The distribution is flatter than most people assume:
| Weekly rate band | Yachts |
|---|---|
| Under 60,000 euros | 148 |
| 60,000 to 150,000 euros | 156 |
| 150,000 to 400,000 euros | 145 |
| 400,000 euros and above | 60 |
Nearly three in five crewed yachts sit under 150,000 euros a week. The million euro boats are real, but they are 60 of 509, and quoting them as the price of a charter week is the single most common way the industry scares people off.
Where the cheap weeks are
By cruising ground, the median low season week reads: Athens and the Saronic 31,750 euros, Greece as a whole 100,000, Turkey 110,000, Croatia 144,500, the Balearics 200,000, Montenegro 225,000, Italy 230,000, Sardinia 230,000, the Amalfi Coast 246,000 and France 250,000.
Those medians move for one reason: which yachts choose to be there. Greece and Turkey carry large fleets of sailing yachts and gulets that start at five figures, which pulls the middle down. The Amalfi Coast and the Riviera are worked almost entirely by motor yachts over thirty metres, which pushes it up. It is a fleet composition effect, not a mark up on the coastline.
What the rate does and does not include
Day rates are usually all in for the day: boat, crew, fuel within a normal cruising range, and in Spain the great majority of our Ibiza and Mallorca boats carry the 21 per cent Spanish VAT inside the published number. Each listing states it either way.
Weekly rates work differently. The published weekly rate is the boat and her crew for seven days, and everything consumed on top of that runs through an advance provisioning allowance, typically 25 to 35 per cent of the rate. VAT is separate again and depends on the flag state you cruise in. We wrote both up properly: what APA is and how it is settled, and how VAT works on charters.
The one number most people should actually run
Divide by the group. A 3,299 euro day boat, the Mediterranean median, carrying ten people is 330 euros a head for the entire day including crew. In Amalfi at the 1,800 euro median it is 180 euros. That is the arithmetic that decides most charters, and we set it out in full in the per person math and in how much a yacht charter costs.
Every figure on this page comes from our own live book and moves as boats come and go. Send a destination, a date and a headcount and we will come back with what is free and what it costs, rather than with a range.