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Route planner

Most itineraries for this lake are drawn on a map. The lake does not work like a map: the same crossing takes different time at different hours, and by mid-afternoon the wind decides where you can comfortably stop.

Plan the day around the water, not the map

A crossing time is not a distance: it changes with the hour and the wind. The crossings are still being timed from the boat, so for now this shows how far apart the places are.

Distances, not times. For how long the boat takes from your pier, ask me when you send your date.

From here toStraight lineBy boat
Lenno1.8 kmnot timed
Bellagio2.8 kmnot timed
Menaggio4.1 kmnot timed
Varenna5.4 kmnot timed
Como, city centre22.5 kmnot timed

Distance in a straight line, town to town. A boat follows the water, so the trip is longer, and on the lower western branch a straight line crosses land.

Distances are worked out from where each town sits on the map.

Tours leaving near you

Pick the dock nearest to where you are staying and the request opens with it already filled in.

Where you are staying

Free on the operator's published list; from any other dock the skipper comes to fetch you and it costs more.

Where the boat leaves from

Why distances and not times

Route sites turn distances into minutes with an assumed speed. On this lake the hour and the wind change that answer, so send me your date and where you are staying, and I tell you when the boat needs to leave.