Cruise ports in Canada

Practical basics

• Currency

  Canadian dollar; US dollars accepted at many tourist businesses at a poor rate

• Language

  English; French is Canada’s other official language but little used here

• Time zone

  Pacific Time (UTC−8, UTC−7 in summer)

• Getting ashore

  1 port with a berth, 0 where ships tender

Drawn from the individual port guides below. Currency, language and berthing can differ between ports in the same country, so the detail that matters is on each port's own page.

Every Canada cruise port

• Victoria

  Ships dock · Often only 4–6 hours, and frequently in the evening

  A British-flavoured provincial capital on Vancouver Island, called by almost every Seattle round-trip because US law requires a foreign port.

Regions Canada sits in

• Alaska

  7 nights · May – September

  The Inside Passage and Gulf of Alaska — glaciers, small former gold-rush towns and the shortest cruise season of any major region.

Other countries with cruise ports

• Antigua and Barbuda 1 port
• Aruba 1 port
• Bahamas 9 ports
• Barbados 1 port
• Belize 2 ports
• Bonaire 1 port
• British Virgin Islands 1 port
• Cayman Islands 1 port
• Croatia 2 ports
• Curaçao 1 port
• Dominica 1 port
• France 2 ports
• Greece 5 ports
• Grenada 1 port
• Guadeloupe 1 port
• Honduras 1 port
• Italy 5 ports
• Jamaica 3 ports
• Malta 1 port
• Martinique 1 port
• Mexico 8 ports
• Montenegro 1 port
• Puerto Rico 1 port
• Sint Maarten 1 port
• Spain 2 ports
• St. Kitts and Nevis 1 port
• St. Lucia 1 port
• St. Vincent and the Grenadines 1 port
• Turkey 2 ports
• United States 6 ports
• US Virgin Islands 3 ports