--- title: "Hvar town harbour: quay and buoy fees and booking" description: "Hvar town harbour: what a day on the quay or a buoy costs a 12 m boat, booking with the port office, the VHF channel, port rules and the no-anchoring zone." url: https://olasail.com/moorings/hvar-town-harbour/ updated: 2026-10-07 --- > The Markdown copy of https://olasail.com/moorings/hvar-town-harbour/, from OlaSail, a planning reference for sailing in Croatia, not for navigation. Every page: https://olasail.com/llms.txt [Report a change](https://olasail.com/about/corrections/) Photo: “The Spanish Fortress in Hvar, Croatia” by [Steve Jurvetson](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Spanish_Fortress_in_Hvar,_Croatia.jpg), [CC BY 2.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), cropped and resized Town quay and buoys, Hvar # Hvar town harbour Hvar town harbour is the harbour of Hvar town, a county port with a short town quay and 15 buoys, run for the port authority by the town's own company. A 12 m boat pays about €136 a day on the quay in 2026, or about €97 on a buoy, and you can book ahead with the port office. €136 a day on the quay in 2026, 12 m boat (Measured by us, 26 Sep 2026) €97 a day on a buoy in 2026, 12 m boat (Measured by us, 26 Sep 2026) 15 buoys in the harbour (Official source, 26 Sep 2026) VHF 09 the port office's channel (From the operator, 26 Sep 2026) All 36 facts on this page name their source, the latest checked on 7 Oct 2026: 15 from the operator, 14 from official sources, 6 measured by us and 1 from a third-party source, such as a pilot book or a magazine, so treat that one as a guide. See every source 15 From the operator (operator) 14 Official source (official) 6 Measured by us (measured) 1 Third-party source (third party) Written by [Domagoj Franc](https://olasail.com/about/people/domagoj-franc/), editor. Reviewed by [Ivor Benko](https://olasail.com/about/people/ivor-benko/), skipper. Published 7 Oct 2026. [Report a change](https://olasail.com/about/corrections/) ## Tonight in Hvar town harbour Can we stay here tonight? Yes, if there is room: book ahead in summer. (From the operator, 26 Sep 2026) Sailors on r/sailing say to arrive by noon. [What they said](https://olasail.com/moorings/hvar-town-harbour/#report-berth-r-noon) - On the quay: Hvar town harbour is a class I.A county port: €8 a metre a day for a boat of 10.01 to 15 m, so €96 for a 12 m boat on the town quay, all year. (Official source, 26 Sep 2026) Nautički centar Hvar charges €40 a day on the quay for a boat of 10 to 14.99 m, with help mooring, water, power and two 90-litre bags of rubbish. A catamaran is charged as if it were 1.5 times its length. (From the operator, 26 Sep 2026) About €136 a day for a 12 m monohull on the town quay in 2026: the county's port fee of €96 and Nautički centar Hvar's charge of €40. (Measured by us, 26 Sep 2026) In the Split-Dalmatia county ports, catamarans pay twice the rate per metre. (Official source, 26 Sep 2026) - On a buoy: On a buoy the port fee is €5.60 a metre, so €67.20 a day for a 12 m boat. At anchor it is €4 a metre, so €48. (Official source, 26 Sep 2026) On a buoy in the harbour, the port charge is €30 a day for a boat of 10 to 14.99 m, with help mooring and one bag of rubbish. (From the operator, 26 Sep 2026) About €97 a day for a 12 m monohull on a buoy in 2026: the port fee of €67.20 and the charge of €30. (Measured by us, 26 Sep 2026) At anchor in the port's anchorage for more than 12 hours, you pay half the port charge and the port fee. (From the operator, 26 Sep 2026) [Picking up a mooring buoy, step by step](https://olasail.com/moorings/med-mooring/#buoy) - Booking: Book a berth or announce your arrival with the office for the yacht berths: [+385 99 537 5441](tel:+385995375441), najave@nchvar.com. (From the operator, 26 Sep 2026) Cancel a confirmed booking less than 48 hours before your arrival and you pay the full berth price. (From the operator, 26 Sep 2026) [Booking town quays and buoy fields](https://olasail.com/moorings/booking-a-berth/#quays) · [When to arrive](https://olasail.com/moorings/booking-a-berth/#arrive) - Paying: Prices include VAT. Pay in cash or by card. (From the operator, 26 Sep 2026) You pay the port authority's attendant in the port, in cash or by card, and get an invoice. (Official source, 26 Sep 2026) - Berths: 15 berths for yachts and sailing boats on the quay and 15 buoys in the harbour, the port authority's page says. It was written after the quay was lengthened in 2018. (Official source, 26 Sep 2026) 313 m of quay: 115 m for larger boats, and 198 m for smaller ones, where it is shallower. (From the operator, 26 Sep 2026) - Arriving: Call the port office on Channel 09 as you come in. (From the operator, 26 Sep 2026) The port office works from 6 am to 10 pm, every day. (From the operator, 26 Sep 2026) [The no-anchoring zone and the port rules](https://olasail.com/moorings/hvar-town-harbour/#approach) · [Stern-to on a quay, step by step](https://olasail.com/moorings/med-mooring/#stern-to) - Water, power: Included in the port charge on the quay. (From the operator, 26 Sep 2026) Nautički centar Hvar charges €40 a day on the quay for a boat of 10 to 14.99 m, with help mooring, water, power and two 90-litre bags of rubbish. A catamaran is charged as if it were 1.5 times its length. (From the operator, 26 Sep 2026) - Toilets: The public toilets on the harbour cost €1 a person. (From the operator, 26 Sep 2026) - Fuel: Hvar town has a fuel station for boats, the port authority says. (Official source, 26 Sep 2026) Not inside the port: see [the port rules](https://olasail.com/moorings/hvar-town-harbour/#approach). - Ashore: Shops, restaurants, hotels, doctors, a post office and cash machines. Buses to every town on the island, fast catamarans to Split, Vis, Milna, Vela Luka and Ubli, and taxi boats to the Pakleni Islands. (Official source, 26 Sep 2026) - Contact: Hvar town harbour is a county port run by the Split-Dalmatia County Port Authority, and its only class I.A port, the dearest class. (Official source, 26 Sep 2026) Nautički centar Hvar d.o.o., owned by the Town of Hvar, runs the port for the port authority: it moors boats, collects the port fees, places boats at anchor, supplies water and power and takes rubbish. (From the operator, 26 Sep 2026) [+385 21 717 282](tel:+38521717282), the reception on the Riva, info@nchvar.com. (From the operator, 26 Sep 2026) - Rubbish: Taken with the port charge, on the quay and on a buoy. (From the operator, 26 Sep 2026) ## Berths, VHF and position in Hvar town harbour €136 a day on the quay in 2026, 12 m boat (Measured by us, 26 Sep 2026) [Call the yacht berths office](tel:+385995375441) - Berths: [+385 99 537 5441](tel:+385995375441) (From the operator, 26 Sep 2026) The office for the yacht berths, bookings and arrivals - VHF: Channel 09 (From the operator, 26 Sep 2026) The port office works from 6 am to 10 pm, every day - Position: 43°10.27′N 016°26.40′E (Measured by us, 29 Sep 2026) Approximate: the middle of the harbour, read off OpenStreetMap. Not a waypoint. - Harbour office: [+385 21 741 007](tel:+38521741007) (Official source, 26 Sep 2026) The harbourmaster's office in Hvar, weekdays [Open in a map app](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=43.171167,16.44) [Report a change](https://olasail.com/about/corrections/) ## Shelter by wind in Hvar town harbour Hvar town harbour faces south, into the channel between Hvar and the Pakleni Islands. The islands break the open sea, but a southerly still reaches the quay. - Jugo and southerlies from the southeast to the southwest: Hvar harbour is sheltered from the bura but open to the jugo, and is rarely calm, because of jugo swell or the heavy traffic inside it. Our cautious answer: don't plan a night on the Hvar quay if a jugo is forecast, and don't anchor in the middle of the harbour. Our skipper reviewer hasn't checked this yet. (Third-party source, 28 Sep 2026) No anchoring off Galešnik. No anchoring within 0.6 NM of the islet of Galešnik, at the mouth of the harbour, out to the line from Rt Špartibutin to Rt Kovač. (Official source, 26 Sep 2026) The port rules. In the port you may not moor without the port office's say-so, swim, fish, refuel, light fires, make noise over 60 dB or clean the hull. Hand in rubbish and oily water before you leave. (From the operator, 26 Sep 2026) [HHI nautical charts](https://www.hhi.hr/en/products-and-services/nautical-charts) (Official source, 25 Sep 2026) What our sources say, not a forecast and not for navigation. [Bura, jugo and maestral explained](https://olasail.com/croatia/weather-and-winds/#winds) ## Wind and sea, next 3 days For Hvar town harbour. The harbour faces south. Model forecast from Open-Meteo. Not an official forecast. Not for navigation. Official forecast: [DHMZ marine forecast](https://meteo.hr/prognoze_e.php?section=prognoze_specp¶m=jadran) (Official source, 25 Sep 2026) How to read this forecast Each part of the day shows its strongest hourly wind and gust, and its highest wave, in Croatian time. The words follow the Beaufort scale, and the model can't tell a real bura from any other northeast wind. [How to read a model forecast](https://olasail.com/croatia/weather-and-winds/#reading-the-forecast) [Weather data by Open-Meteo.com](https://open-meteo.com/), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Grouped into parts of the day by OlaSail. ## Hvar town harbour on our routes - Day 4 of [Seven days from Split](https://olasail.com/routes/split-seven-days/#day-4) ends in the Pakleni Islands. Hvar town is its other night, for an evening in town. - On [day 5](https://olasail.com/routes/split-seven-days/#day-5) you can stop here on the way from the Pakleni Islands, or stay the night instead of going on to Stari Grad. - Every harbour and bay on the island: [Hvar by boat](https://olasail.com/places/hvar/). The islands just offshore: [the Pakleni Islands](https://olasail.com/places/pakleni-islands/). ## Keep planning [Route Seven days from Split A Saturday to Saturday sailing week from Split to Šolta, Vis, Hvar and Brač: the distance each day, where to sleep, and a Plan B for the wind.](https://olasail.com/routes/split-seven-days/) [Moorings Booking a berth, and when to arrive How far ahead to book, which places take bookings, and when the rest fill up](https://olasail.com/moorings/booking-a-berth/) [Moorings Med mooring, step by step How to moor stern-to on a town quay or in a marina, pick up a buoy and tie ashore](https://olasail.com/moorings/med-mooring/) [Moorings Anchoring rules and fees Where you may anchor, and who may charge you for it](https://olasail.com/moorings/anchoring-rules-and-fees/) [Charter planning What a sailing week really costs The boat, marinas, buoys, fuel, food and the deposit, added up](https://olasail.com/charter/cost/) [Sailing in Croatia Bura, jugo and maestral: which forecast? How the main winds behave, and which forecast to read each morning](https://olasail.com/croatia/weather-and-winds/) ## Sources for Hvar town harbour 36 facts from 23 sources, last checked 7 Oct 2026. [ACI Marina Palmižana's price list for 2026](https://aci-marinas.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/ACI_Palmizana_prices.pdf) (Palmižana: the marina price) (From the operator, 7 Oct 2026) [Nautički centar Hvar d.o.o.: home page](https://nchvar.com/wp/en/nautical-center-hvar/) (Hvar town: the VHF channel) (From the operator, 26 Sep 2026) [Nautički centar Hvar d.o.o.: the port of Hvar](https://nchvar.com/wp/en/port-hvar/) (Hvar town: booking a berth, office hours, the reception) (From the operator, 26 Sep 2026) [Nautički centar Hvar: Service price list for the port of Hvar and its anchorage, 2026 (file of 11 Aug 2026)](https://nchvar.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Nauticki_centar_Hvar_price_list_ENG.pdf), sections I and VII (Hvar town: the port charge on the quay, the charge on a buoy, at anchor in the port's anchorage, cancelling a booking, paying, public toilets) (From the operator, 26 Sep 2026) [Nautički centar Hvar: Luka Hvar (its page on the port of Hvar)](https://nchvar.com/wp/luka-hvar/), "Opis lučkog područja", last paragraph (Hvar town: the quay) (From the operator, 26 Sep 2026) [Nautički centar Hvar d.o.o.: about us](https://nchvar.com/wp/en/about-us/) (Hvar town: who runs the port services) (From the operator, 26 Sep 2026) Show all 23 sources Show fewer sources [Nautički centar Hvar: Port of Hvar rules, April 2026](https://nchvar.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Port_of_Hvar_Rules_EN.pdf) (Hvar town: the port rules) (From the operator, 26 Sep 2026) [ACI Marina Palmižana: its page on aci-marinas.com](https://aci-marinas.com/marina/aci-palmizana/) (Palmižana: the marina season) (From the operator, 25 Sep 2026) [Split-Dalmatia County Port Authority: the port of Hvar](https://www.lusdz.hr/o-nama/popis-luka-pod-nadleznoscu-lusdz/luka/1204) (Hvar town: yacht berths and buoys, fuel, what is ashore) (Official source, 26 Sep 2026) [Split-Dalmatia County Port Authority: Port fee rules (Pravilnik o lučkim pristojbama) of 21 Jun 2023, with the 2025 and 2026 changes](https://www.lusdz.hr/Portals/0/adam/Documents/4T8EmwsaZUyU-OIRrV9Ykw/Files/Pravilnik%20o%20lu%C4%8Dkim%20pristojbama/PRAVILNIK%20O%20LU%C4%8CKIM%20PRISTOJBAMA%202023.pdf), Articles 8 and 14, Article 16 and Article 8; Table VI (Hvar town: the town quay fee, who runs the harbour. Catamaran fees in county ports, paying in a county port. Stari Grad: the town quay fee) (Official source, 26 Sep 2026) [Split-Dalmatia County Port Authority: Port fee list for the port of Hvar, valid 1 Jan 2023 to 31 Dec 2026, published by Nautički centar Hvar d.o.o.](https://nchvar.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Cjenik_pristojbi_2023.pdf) (Hvar town: the port fee on a buoy or at anchor) (Official source, 26 Sep 2026) [Ministry of the Sea, Transport and Infrastructure: harbourmaster's office in Hvar: address, phone and hours](https://mmpi.gov.hr/default.aspx?id=13978) (Hvar town: the harbourmaster's office) (Official source, 26 Sep 2026) [The maritime safety ordinance (Pravilnik o sigurnosti pomorske plovidbe), Narodne novine 52/2025](https://narodne-novine.nn.hr/clanci/sluzbeni/2025_03_52_685.html), Article 67 (Hvar town: no anchoring off Galešnik) (Official source, 26 Sep 2026) [More i krš and the Faculty of Maritime Studies in Split: Split-Dalmatia County's anchorage study, phases I and II (2019)](https://moreikrs.hr/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Studija-sidrista-Splitsko-dalmatinske-zupanije-%E2%80%93-I.-i-II.-faza-podloga-za-prostorni-plan-Splitsko-dalmatinske-zupanije.pdf), section 4.4.1.4 (Shelter in Vinogradišće bay) (Official source, 26 Sep 2026) [Hydrographic Institute of the Republic of Croatia: HHI nautical charts (products and services)](https://www.hhi.hr/en/products-and-services/nautical-charts) (Official charts) (Official source, 25 Sep 2026) [gov.hr, Nautics: concessioned anchorages and fees (the government nautical guide)](https://gov.hr/en/nautics/1558) (Official charts) (Official source, 25 Sep 2026) [DHMZ marine forecast for the Adriatic (English)](https://meteo.hr/prognoze_e.php?section=prognoze_specp¶m=jadran) (The marine forecast) (Official source, 25 Sep 2026) Our route tool: our planning line by sea, with varying clearance near the coast and harbour approaches (Hvar town: distance to Vinogradišće by sea) (Measured by us, 7 Oct 2026) [OpenStreetMap node 5904029086, Luka Hvar, and the coastline round it](https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) (Hvar town: position) (Measured by us, 29 Sep 2026) Our sum of the county port authority's fee and Nautički centar Hvar d.o.o.'s 2026 port charge (Hvar town: a day on the town quay, in all, a day on a buoy, in all) (Measured by us, 26 Sep 2026) Our route tool: the shortest line by sea between the two harbours, from the table of harbour distances measured on 26 Sep 2026 (Palmižana: distance from Hvar town) (Measured by us, 25 Sep 2026) Our route tool (Stari Grad: distance from Hvar town) (Measured by us, 25 Sep 2026) [CV Sistemi (SmArtNav): peljar.cvs.hr: Prvi hrvatski on-line peljar Jadranskog mora (online Adriatic pilot)](https://peljar.cvs.hr/show_place_info.php?id=155&type=2), Pilot entries: Hvar (Hvar town: shelter) (Third-party source, 28 Sep 2026) - Written by: [Domagoj Franc](https://olasail.com/about/people/domagoj-franc/), editor - Reviewed by: [Ivor Benko](https://olasail.com/about/people/ivor-benko/), skipper. - Not paid for: Neither the port authority nor Nautički centar Hvar pays to be listed or checked. We read their own pages and price lists. (From the operator) (Official source) (Seen by us) (Seen by a sailor) (Measured by us) (Sources disagree) (Third-party source) [How we check](https://olasail.com/about/how-we-check/#labels) ## Photos on this page - Hvar town, island of Hvar. Photo: “The Spanish Fortress in Hvar, Croatia” by [Steve Jurvetson](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Spanish_Fortress_in_Hvar,_Croatia.jpg), [CC BY 2.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), cropped and resized - Hvar town harbour, the quay. Photo: “Hvar Town through the Yachts” by [Alex Proimos from Sydney, Australia](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hvar_Town_through_the_Yachts_(5969965094).jpg), [CC BY 2.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), resized - ACI Marina Palmižana, Sveti Klement, Pakleni Islands. Photo: “Palmizana - panoramio” by [Dejan Sekuloski](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Palmizana_-_panoramio.jpg), [CC BY 3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), cropped and resized - Vinogradišće bay, south side of Sveti Klement, Pakleni Islands. Photo: “PALMIŽANA - panoramio” by [sanja mm](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PALMI%C5%BDANA_-_panoramio.jpg), [CC BY 3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), cropped and resized - Stari Grad town quay, Hvar. Photo: “Yacht Line Up, Stari Grad - Hvar Island” by [Alex Proimos from Sydney, Australia](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yacht_Line_Up,_Stari_Grad_-_Hvar_Island_(5970792722).jpg), [CC BY 2.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), resized