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Catania Airport to Taormina

Catania Fontanarossa Airport (CTA)

Taormina

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Corso Umberto in Taormina crowded with people between shopfronts, balconies hung with flowers above them and awnings shading the street.
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Taormina is 65 km from Catania airport, fifty to sixty minutes north on the coastal motorway. A private transfer is 180 EUR for the vehicle, up to six people. This route has the deepest choice of products in Italy and the messiest, and most of what is on sale is not what it looks like.

50–60 min
By road, estimated
65 km
Road distance

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Transfers you can book for this route

4 bookable transfers for this route, most reviewed first

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Which transfer should you choose?

More products sell this journey than any other in the country, and a great many of them are not one-way arrivals. Some are return trips written as an arrow between the two names. Some bundle Taormina with Syracuse, Noto or "surrounding villages" at one price spanning 102 to 384.70 EUR, a range that wide precisely because it covers different destinations. What is left when those are set aside is a plain one-way at 180 EUR for up to six, and that is the figure this page compares.

There are five or six of you

Private transfer

180 EUR across six is thirty each for an hour's drive that climbs two hundred metres at the end. The alternatives all involve a change at Taormina-Giardini station and then the hill.

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You are comparing prices yourself

Private transfer

Check what each product actually sells. On this route the cheap-looking figures are usually one destination of three, and the expensive-looking ones are usually both directions.

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There are two of you

Private transfer

Ninety each. Taormina is far enough from Catania and high enough above it that this is the going rate rather than a premium.

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A private transfer is arranged before you fly and the driver meets you in arrivals with your name on a board. Priced at 180 EUR for the vehicle, up to six passengers, as recently checked at Viator on 10 September 2026. Taormina sits two hundred metres above the sea on a shelf of rock, and the road up from the coast is a series of hairpins ending in a town centre closed to traffic. Where a driver can actually stop depends on your hotel, which is the usual reason a transfer is worth more here than the distance alone suggests.

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See all 4 bookable transfers at the top of this page.

Prefer to have it booked before you land?

A private transfer to Taormina is arranged in advance and the driver meets you in arrivals. Prices move, so the link opens the current ones at Viator.

Frequently asked questions

How far is Taormina from Catania Airport?

65 km. Two routing engines returned 63.60 and 66.30 km from the road outside Terminal A, both on the tolled A18 along the coast.

How much is a private transfer from Catania Airport to Taormina?

180 EUR for the vehicle, up to six people, recently checked at Viator rather than quoted live.

Why do other sites show cheaper prices?

Usually because the product covers more than one destination. One on this route spans 102 to 384.70 EUR because it sells Catania, Taormina or Noto at a single listing.

How long does it take?

Fifty to sixty minutes. The last stretch is the climb from the coast road, which is where the two engines disagree most.

Will the driver reach my hotel?

It depends where it is. Taormina's centre is closed to traffic and the town sits two hundred metres above the coast.

€180

per vehicle, up to 6 · Viator

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Sep 10, 2026