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Cruise Crowds

Ketchikan, Alaska

Wednesday, August 12, 2026

Typical
44th percentile
for Ketchikan cruise days
5
ships scheduled
~10,132
scheduled passenger capacity
~10,132
peak overlapping capacity
10 AM–3 PM
busiest scheduled window

A pretty normal cruise day for this port.

What's in port

  • Norwegian Jade

    Norwegian Cruise Line · Berth WW

    7 AM – 4:30 PM

    ~2,402 passengers

  • MSC Poesia

    MSC Cruises · Berth 3

    7 AM – 5 PM

    ~2,550 passengers

  • Viking Orion

    Viking · Berth 2

    8 AM – 3 PM

    ~930 passengers

  • Queen Elizabeth

    Cunard Line · Berth 4

    9 AM – 4 PM

    ~2,092 passengers

  • Celebrity Summit

    Celebrity Cruises · Berth 1

    10 AM – 5:30 PM

    ~2,158 passengers

When they overlap

Norwegian Jade7 AM – 4:30 PM
MSC Poesia7 AM – 5 PM
Viking Orion8 AM – 3 PM
Queen Elizabeth9 AM – 4 PM
Celebrity Summit10 AM – 5:30 PM
Shaded window: 10 AM–3 PM, when scheduled capacity peaks at 10,132 passenger berths across 5 ships.

How unusual is this?

Busier than 44% of Ketchikan's 156 scheduled cruise days in 2026.

Nearby days

Useful if your plans can move. If you are arriving by cruise ship, we assume they can't.

  1. Sun, Aug 9Typical62nd
  2. Mon, Aug 10Busy69th
  3. Tue, Aug 11Busy79th
  4. Wed, Aug 12Typical44th
  5. Thu, Aug 13Very Busy95th
  6. Fri, Aug 14Typical55th
  7. Sat, Aug 15Very Light20th

Leave the date empty to see the port's whole crowd calendar.

Schedule source: Cruise Line Agencies of Alaska. Schedule coverage Apr 21, 2026 – Oct 14, 2027, last checked Aug 10, 2026, source revised Jul 7, 2026. Ship capacities are curated separately from public references. How we calculate this.