The Cheapest Week to Cruise From Each Home Port

For 18 home ports: the cheapest departure, the cheapest month, the dearest month, and the real fare and date behind each, from our own price data.

At the middle home port, the dearest month to sail costs 48% more than the cheapest. We priced 853 sailings from 18 home ports for the next twelve months. The cheapest week is not the same week for everyone: Florida, the Gulf and San Juan are cheapest from November to February, Europe in May, August or October, Alaska in September. The cheapest seven-night departure from Miami is $487.53 per person, an interior cabin on Allure of the Seas on 15 November 2026. The dearest month there has a middle fare of $2,004.

The table has every port's cheapest departure with the real fare and date, and a link to the back-to-back trip it starts. The numbers use the same words as the rest of the site: lowest interior fare, per person, taxes and port fees included.

Cheapest departure from each home port

Lowest interior fare per person, taxes and port fees included, priced on 19 October 2026, for sailings leaving 1 November 2026 to 31 October 2027. Each port is compared on the cruise length it sells most (the Nights column). Middle fare means the median. A month needs at least three priced sailings to count.

What the pattern says

Florida, the Gulf and San Juan are cheapest in winter. Fort Lauderdale, San Juan, Galveston and New Orleans all have their cheapest month in January. Tampa is cheapest in February. The dearest month for most of them is June or July. The gap runs from 59% more at Fort Lauderdale ($380 against $604 on 3 nights) to 131% more at Galveston.

Miami and Port Canaveral are different, and part of the reason is the ship. Miami's seven-night middle fare runs from $701 in November 2026 to $2,004 in July 2027, 186% more. Some of that is the calendar, and some is that the newest, biggest ships sail more seven-nights in summer. Each month's figure is the middle of whatever sails that month, so a month with a big ship in it costs more. Port Canaveral is the same: cheapest in October 2027, at $1,189, dearest in July, at $1,947. Read the cheapest departure column to see one fare on one ship.

Europe is cheapest in the shoulder months. Barcelona is cheapest in May 2027 and dearest in July. Athens is cheapest in August. Rome bottoms out in October 2027. Ravenna barely moves: 11% between its cheapest and dearest month.

Alaska and the Pacific Northwest are cheapest at the end of the season. Seattle is cheapest in September 2027, at $739, and dearest in June, at $1,177. Vancouver is cheapest in September too. Seward sails ten-night itineraries and its cheapest month is September.

Asia runs its own calendar. Singapore is cheapest in July and dearest in December. Shanghai is cheapest in March.

The cheapest week is a fare, not a rule

A cheapest departure is one sailing on one day, and fares move daily. Five ports have their cheapest departure in November 2026, the first month of the window, because a cruise that sails soon is priced to fill. That is a real saving and not a pattern you can plan a year around. For planning, trust the month columns, which are medians of at least three sailings. For booking, trust the fare on the day.

The same data tells a related story in the cheapest month to sail a back-to-back, which prices two-leg trips from the four Florida ports. And if you hold a casino offer, what a Club Royale offer is really worth turns these fares into the dollars an offer can reach. Our back-to-back index lists every home port we track.

Sailings with no fare

Some sailings had no fare when we looked (San Juan 1, Tampa 1, Cape Liberty 1, Singapore 6). They are shown as unpriced, left out of every figure above, and never estimated.

How we measured this

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