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Catania CarHire
Catania · Italy
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Catania · Italy
One-Way Car Rental Catania to Palermo: Across Sicily and Drop
Land in the east, drive the A19 west across the island, and hand the car back in Palermo instead of here.
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No credit card or low deposit. Full insurance from €5/day.
210 km on the A19
About two and a half hours
74 cars in the listing
Drop fee quoted before you pay
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Every car, opened up
Insurance options on every file: TPL, CDW, SCDW and Full CDW. Final rental terms are confirmed by the operator at the last step.
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Booking a car that is allowed to leave the east
Palermo is about 210 km west of Catania, far enough that a supplier has to plan for getting the car home again. That single fact is what makes a one-way its own kind of booking, and it is handled in five steps.
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Put Palermo in the drop-off field
The search above carries a separate return location. Change it before you look at a price, because it decides which of the 74 cars are eligible at all.
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Expect a shorter list, and read why
Many suppliers here are Sicilian businesses with one yard, and some will not release a car westward at all. The shorter list is the honest answer, not a fault in the search.
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Read the fee as part of the price
The one-way fee belongs to the supplier and appears with that car before payment. Nobody can quote it in advance, so judge hire plus fee as one number. The cheapest day rate is often not the cheapest crossing.
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Check which Palermo the voucher means
Punta Raisi airport and a city office sit 35 km apart under the same city name. Confirm the address now, while changing it costs nothing.
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Hold the car before you buy the flight
A one-way car on your exact dates is the scarcer half of the plan. Settle it before you buy a seat out of Palermo.
What changes once the two cities are different
The contract gains a second address
Same licence, same card in the driver name, same inspection at both ends. The one structural difference is a return address 210 km from where you signed.
Mileage stops being theoretical
The crossing is 210 km before a single day trip is added, so a car sold with a mileage cap will feel it. Check the allowance on the car in front of you.
The gearbox is worth deciding early
Of the 74 cars here, 27 are automatic and 47 are manual. The motorway run is easy either way, but if Etna is also on the plan, choose when you book rather than at the yard.
Collection is an ordinary pickup
Nothing about the start of a one-way is special. The page on collecting at Fontanarossa covers that end in full, and none of it changes here.
The A19, in the order you meet it
The road west is one motorway from end to end and it is free, which surprises anyone who has already paid to drive the A18 north toward Taormina. It also leaves the coast for the middle of the island, the part most visitors never see.
Out of the city, onto the motorway
The ring road takes you round the western edge and feeds the A19 near Misterbianco. Follow Palermo on the green signs from the moment you leave the yard. Green means motorway in Italy, blue means the slow road beside it. Take the green.
The climb inland
Within twenty minutes the sea is gone and the road is rising through farmland and wind turbines. Long sections carry repairs, and the limit drops and lifts repeatedly, so read the signs rather than the traffic around you.
Enna, roughly halfway
The hill town stands high above the motorway near the midpoint, and the service areas at the junction are the natural place to stop and swap drivers.
Down to the Tyrrhenian coast
Past Caltanissetta the route descends toward Termini Imerese. The last half hour runs beside the sea into the edge of Palermo, and it is the busiest part of the drive.
Arriving, two and a half hours later
Traffic decides the final number more than distance does, and if the car goes back the same day, treat that figure as the floor.
Handing the car back at the other end
35 km
from central Palermo out to Punta Raisi
Palermo airport, code PMO, sits west of the city on the coast at Punta Raisi, and the drive out takes longer in morning traffic than the map suggests. Returning to a city office instead saves that run but leaves you a bus or a taxi to the flight.
Fuel before the last few kilometres
The policy on the contract belongs to the car, not to the city, and full to full is the usual arrangement. Fill up on the approach road.
Call the office the day before
The number on the voucher belongs to whoever is receiving the car. Out of season a small office may close earlier than the website says.
The inspection is the same inspection
Photograph the car as you hand it over. The page on returning a car covers what a checker looks for.
Three ways to see both ends of Sicily
A one-way is not automatically the right answer. What separates these three is less about money than about whether you are willing to drive the same motorway twice.
| How you book it | What you pay for | What it costs in driving | When it is the right call |
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| One hire, dropped in Palermo | The days you use, plus the supplier one-way fee | The A19 driven once | You land in the east and fly home from PMO |
| One hire, brought back here | The days you use, with no one-way fee | The same 210 km again, so five hours of motorway | Palermo is a single overnight in a longer trip |
| Two hires, one at each end | Two sets of days and two handovers | A train or bus between the cities, then a second counter | You want a car around each city and none in between |
The fee in the first row is the supplier figure quoted at booking, and Catania CarHire shows it with the price rather than after it.
Crossing the island on one booking, answered
Yes, on a car whose supplier offers it. A one-way is a property of the individual car rather than of the listing: some companies move cars between the two ends of Sicily every week, others never leave the east. Set Palermo as the drop-off in the search above.
The supplier sets it, and it is quoted with that car before you pay rather than at the counter. There is no island-wide figure, because the fee reflects how each company gets the car back east.
About two and a half hours for the 210 km, nearly all on the A19 and toll-free, unlike the tolled A18 running north along the coast. Give it more than that: the road climbs inland and long stretches carry repairs.
Either at Punta Raisi, the airport 35 km west of the city, or at a city office if the supplier keeps one. The two are far apart and the voucher names which you agreed to, so read it before you plan the last morning.
It does. It is the same booking with the cities swapped, and the fee is still the supplier decision. Travellers who want Cefalu first and Etna last book it in that direction.
See which cars will go west on your dates
Set Palermo as the drop-off and the listing narrows to the cars a supplier will genuinely release for the crossing, with the one-way fee shown against each one.
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