DataAs of 2026-09-18 18:15 UTC
Cruise ship statistics
Every number on this page is computed from our own tracking tables: ship records, AIS positions, port visits and the fares we log from the booking catalogue. No estimates and no third-party surveys. Refreshed every 6 hours.
Ships tracked
40850 cruise lines, 823,399 passenger berths.
Median fare$188 a nightacross 28,470 in-stock sailings
AIS positions8,533 in 24 hours107,056 AIS positions logged all time
- Gross tonnage
- 31,668,429
- GT, all ships
- Port visits
- 8,379
- detected since 2026-01-26
- Fare observations
- 1,739,725
- since 2026-07-03
- Prices dropped
- 19%
- of 35,064 sailings, last 30 days
Fleet408 ships
Largest fleets
| # | Cruise line | Ships |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Carnival Cruise Line | 32 |
| 2 | Royal Caribbean International | 30 |
| 3 | MSC Cruises | 26 |
| 4 | Norwegian Cruise Line | 22 |
| 5 | Hurtigruten Expeditions | 18 |
| 6 | Princess Cruises | 18 |
| 7 | Celebrity Cruises | 17 |
| 8 | Ponant | 15 |
| 9 | Viking Ocean Cruises | 15 |
| 10 | Costa Cruises | 14 |
Ports7,160 visits
Busiest cruise ports, last 90 days
| # | Port | Visits |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Port of Civitavecchia | 262 |
| 2 | Port Miami | 246 |
| 3 | Port Canaveral | 221 |
| 4 | Port of Barcelona | 201 |
| 5 | Port of Marseille | 187 |
| 6 | Port of Vancouver | 186 |
| 7 | Cozumel Cruise Port | 182 |
| 8 | Nassau Cruise Port | 179 |
| 9 | Port of Seattle | 175 |
| 10 | Port of Piraeus | 173 |
A visit is a ship detected inside a port's radius from AIS positions. Month by month, with countries, cruise lines and ships: cruise port traffic reports.
Fares28,470 sailings
What a cruise night costs
- Cheapest 10%
- $102 or less
- per night
- Lower quartile
- $133 or less
- per night
- Median
- $188
- per night
- Top 10%
- $689 or more
- per night
Median fare per night by cruise length
- 1-3 nights (1,254 sailings)$163 / night
- 4-6 nights (2,946 sailings)$137 / night
- 7 nights (15,148 sailings)$194 / night
- 8-14 nights (6,606 sailings)$212 / night
- 15+ nights (2,516 sailings)$194 / night
Catalogue fare divided by nights, across every in-stock sailing we list. Browse them on the cruise finder.
Build decade
Ships by build decade
- 1980s14 ships
- 1990s57 ships
- 2000s111 ships
- 2010s103 ships
- 2020s118 ships
Prices35,064 sailings tracked
Price movements, last 30 days
- Price dropped19% sailings
- Price rose24% sailings
- Unchanged57% sailings
A sailing counts when we logged its fare at least twice in the window; dropped and rose compare the first and the latest observation. Per-ship price history is on every ship page.
Method
- Fleet figures come from our ship records (year built and gross tonnage present for every ship).
- Port visits are detected from AIS positions inside a port's radius; the busiest list counts visits, not ships.
- Fares are catalogue fares per night for in-stock sailings; no discounts are applied or estimated.
- Price movements compare the first and the latest fare logged in the last 30 days for each sailing.
- Cite as: CruiseShipTracking.com, Cruise Ship Statistics, 2026-09-18. Reuse with attribution and a link to this page (CC BY 4.0). See the live map for the ships behind these positions.