Western Europe Cruise Ports

Western Europe holds 241 cruise ports, 42% of the 573 in Europe. 34 of them are departure ports. The most visited cruise port in Western Europe sub-region is also its busiest departure port: Barcelona, Spain, appearing in 7,774 upcoming itineraries.

By port count it is the largest of 5 sub-regions in Europe, ahead of Northern Europe at 130. Its ports span 12 countries, most of them in France, Spain and England, United Kingdom.

This is the busiest sub region we track. It runs from the Iberian peninsula and the western Mediterranean up through France and the British Isles, and it holds more homeports than anywhere else in Europe. Barcelona and Marseille turn ships around through the summer, Southampton does the same for British Isles and Norway sailings, and the Canary Islands keep a share of the traffic moving through the winter.