Central America, Panama Canal Cruise Ports

Central America, Panama Canal holds 24 cruise ports, 1.5% of the 1,572 we track. 4 of them are departure ports. The most visited cruise port in Central America, Panama Canal region is Belize City, Belize, appearing in 1,026 upcoming itineraries; the busiest departure port there is Colon, Panama, with 806.

Central America, Panama Canal has no sub-regions, so all 24 ports sit in one group. Its ports span 5 countries, most of them in Panama, Costa Rica and Belize.

Most traffic here is the Panama Canal, and it comes in two forms. A full transit crosses between the Atlantic and the Pacific and takes most of a day through the Gatun and Miraflores locks. A partial transit enters the locks, spends time on Gatun Lake and returns the way it came, which lets a round trip from Florida include the canal without repositioning the ship. Belize City, Puerto Limon and Puntarenas are the common calls on either side, and the drier months from December to April are the busier ones.