Cruise ports in Puerto Rico

Practical basics

• Currency

  US dollar

• Language

  Spanish and English are both official; English is widely spoken in Old San Juan

• Time zone

  Atlantic Standard Time (UTC−4), no daylight saving

• 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 Puerto Rico cruise port

• San Juan

  Ships dock · 8–10 hours as a port of call; full-day turnarounds as a homeport

  A 500-year-old walled Spanish colonial city that is also a US territory and a major homeport — you step off the ship into Old San Juan.

Regions Puerto Rico sits in

• Eastern Caribbean

  7 nights · Sails year-round

  The Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, St. Maarten and the northern Leewards — walkable towns and short tender-free port days.

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
• Canada 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
• 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