About this site
Compiled and maintained by Andrew Budai, webmaster. Schedule last updated .
Southampton Cruise Calendar is an independent calendar of cruises leaving the Port of Southampton. It lists 718 sailings on 36 ships from 12 cruise lines, from November 2026 to November 2028.
We don't sell cruises. There is no booking engine, account or newsletter here. When you find a sailing you like, we send you to Cruisebound, which sells that exact sailing, or to the cruise line, to check the price and book. Cruisebound sells in the US and Canada, in US dollars. If you are booking from the UK, use our fares to compare sailings, then get a price in pounds from the line or a UK agent.
The site earns money from those links. They are marked Ad, and Cruisebound pays us a commission if you book through one. It does not change which sailings we list or how we order them.
Who runs this site
Andrew Budai compiles and maintains Southampton Cruise Calendar. He is an experienced webmaster with more than 10 years in SEO and digital advertising, and he has been building his own websites for the past year. He wants this site to be genuinely helpful and also profitable. He is not a travel agent, and the schedule comes from the sources listed below, not from personal experience.
How the schedule is put together
Each sailing is built from three sources, each used for what it does best:
- Cruisebound, a cruise retailer, publishes every sailing it sells from Southampton, with today's fare. Each sailing's own page gives the day-by-day itinerary, and that is where our ports of call come from.
- Associated British Ports, which runs the port, publishes a cruise ship schedule on its Southampton VTS site, about five months ahead. We check every sailing against it, and it is the only place our terminals come from. It gives a berth, and each berth is one of the five terminals. ABP calls the list strictly provisional, so your booking documents have the final word.
- Past the last day of ABP's schedule, CruiseTimetables is a second check of which ship leaves on which day. Its feed names one ship a day, so it can confirm a sailing but not rule one out. It doesn't say which terminal, so those sailings show none yet.
- If we can't confirm the ports of call, the sailing is left out. We would rather show fewer cruises than show one with gaps. If two sources disagree, the sailing stays on the site and is marked, so you can check it with the line.
We never work out a terminal from the cruise line. Ships move: in ABP's own schedule Queen Victoria uses three different terminals in five months, and the Eastern and Western Docks have separate entrances, so a wrong guess costs real time on the day.
Ships that only call in Southampton partway through a voyage are not departures. Lines Cruisebound doesn't sell from here, including P&O Cruises and Fred. Olsen, have no confirmed ports or fares for us to publish, so they appear only on the all-ship calendar, which shows every cruise ship on ABP's schedule with its dates and terminal.
How sure we are
As of 2026-11-02:
| Status | Sailings | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Confirmed | 271 | The ship is on ABP's schedule for that day or, past its last day, on CruiseTimetables. |
| Single source | 447 | Cruisebound sells it, but it is further ahead than either check reaches. Check these with the line. |
We record which ports a sailing visits. The order and the times in port can change, so check the line's day-by-day itinerary if that matters to you.
About the fares
A fare here is a starting price per person in US dollars, for the cheapest cabin listed, with taxes and port fees included. 716 of the 718 sailings have one. Each fare shows the date we checked it.
These are not live quotes. Cruise prices move every day, so treat a fare as a way to compare one sailing with another, then get the real price from the line. Where we have no fare, the table says "check prices" instead of guessing.
Keeping it current
Fares are re-checked on a schedule and the site is rebuilt afterwards. Sailings drop off automatically once they have left. The date of the last update is at the top of every listing and in the footer.
Download the schedule
The whole schedule is available as a file, one row per sailing, rebuilt every morning with the site: CSV for a spreadsheet, or JSON. Each row gives the departure and return dates, nights, the terminal where ABP's schedule shows it, ship, line, itinerary, region, ports of call, the starting fare and the date it was read, and the page that covers it. You are welcome to use and quote it, with a link back to this site. You can also put a live list of sailings on your own site with our schedule widget.
Sources
- Cruisebound: which sailings are on sale, their ports of call, and fares.
- Associated British Ports, Southampton cruise ship schedule: the official record of which ship is at which berth on which day, about five months ahead, used for the ship, dates and terminal.
- CruiseTimetables, cruises from Southampton: a second check of which ship leaves on which day, past the end of ABP's schedule.
The planning guides list their own sources, mostly ABP and the operators each guide covers.
Independence
This site is not affiliated with the Port of Southampton, Associated British Ports or any cruise line. It does have an affiliate deal with Cruisebound, a cruise booking site, which pays us a commission on links marked Ad. The affiliate disclosure explains how that works. It does not change which sailings we list or the order they appear in.
When something is wrong
Cruise lines change schedules often, and a list like this can fall behind between updates. The cruise line is always the final word on dates, ports and prices.
