Cruise Ships in Kotor

How many ships are in the bay today and this week, when their passengers are ashore, and which days ahead are the fullest — read straight from the Port of Kotor's own arrivals file.

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The week ahead

Every day Luka Kotor A.D. (Port of Kotor) has listed for the coming week, in order.

Today

Quiet

Costa Deliziosa08:00–17:00 · alongside · 92.720 GT

Tomorrow

Quiet

Emerald Kaia08:00–17:00 · alongside · 5.470 GT

Wednesday, 14 October

Very full

La Belle de l´Adriatique16:00–22:00 · alongside · 2.995 GT
Norwegian GEM07:00–17:00 · at anchor · 93.530 GT
Silver Spirit08:00–18:00 · at anchor · 39.444 GT
Viking Neptune07:00–16:30 · at anchor · 47.842 GT

4 of them are in at the same time between 16:00 and 16:30.

Thursday, 15 October

Very full

Hebridean Sky08:30–18:30 · at anchor · 4.200 GT
Mein Schiff 408:00–19:00 · at anchor · 99.526 GT
MSC Armonia08:00–18:00 · alongside · 65.591 GT
Norwegian Pearl07:00–17:00 · at anchor · 93.530 GT

4 of them are in at the same time between 08:30 and 17:00.

Friday, 16 October

Quiet

Explora II08:00–18:00 · at anchor · 63.900 GT
La Belle de l´Adriatique08:00–16:00 · alongside · 2.995 GT

2 of them are in at the same time between 08:00 and 16:00.

Saturday, 17 October

Busy

Celebrity Eclipse07:00–18:00 · at anchor · 121.878 GT
Crown Iris08:00–19:30 · alongside · 40.876 GT

2 of them are in at the same time between 08:00 and 18:00.

Sunday, 18 October

Quiet

MSC Lirica14:30–20:30 · alongside · 65.591 GT

What a ship day means here

Alongside means the ship ties up at the pier and its passengers walk straight out onto the Riva, a few hundred metres from the Vrata od grada. At anchor means it sits out in the bay and lands people by tender, a boatload at a time — the same ship arrives more slowly and stays in view all day.

Nearly everyone lands in the same place, so a busy day is felt in the Old Town, on the Riva and on the road through Škaljari and Dobrota, rather than spread across the municipality.

Four is the number residents themselves use — "Četiri broda je previše za Kotor", four ships is too many for Kotor. A fourth ship moves this page's reading to its fullest band whatever the tonnage, because that is the day people describe.

Kotor has no daily cap on ship numbers. Whether to adopt one is an open local argument, not a settled rule, and this page takes no side in it — it only shows what the port has announced.

Gross tonnage (GT) is a measure of a ship's enclosed volume, not its weight or its passenger list. It is useful here only as a rough sense of scale: a 140,000 GT ship is a small town, a 2,000 GT sailing ship is a large hotel.

Get told before a full day

One email, about two days ahead, for each of the days the port’s plan puts in its fullest band — so you can do the shopping early or take the other road without checking this page every morning. Nothing else, and you can stop at any time.

The rest of the year

The plan the port has published runs from Thursday, 1 January to Wednesday, 23 December. Month by month:

523

Ships in the plan

224

Days with a ship

Days at their fullest

Month	Days with a ship	Ships	Fullest day
January	3	3	Thursday, 1 January — quiet
February	3	3	Sunday, 8 February — quiet
March	7	8	Thursday, 12 March — busy
April	19	30	Sunday, 12 April — very full
May	30	60	Thursday, 14 May — very full
June	28	71	Sunday, 21 June — very full
July	28	81	Thursday, 9 July — very full
August	29	86

Where these numbers come from

Luka Kotor A.D. (Port of Kotor) publishes its arrivals as a spreadsheet on its own website. This page reads that file directly — the dates, the ship names, the times and the berths are the port's own, not retyped by anyone.

It is a plan, not a promise. Ships are added, moved and cancelled, and we read the file about once a week, so a change made in between will not show here until the next read. The port’s own page is always the last word.

Gross tonnage is a measure of a ship’s size. It is the only size figure the port publishes, so it is what the busy reading is built from, together with how many ships are in. Nobody publishes how many passengers actually come ashore, so this page does not put a number on it.

Days and times are read against the local clock in Kotor — not your phone’s, and not the server’s.

Cruise Ships in Kotor

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The week ahead

Today

Tomorrow

Wednesday, 14 October

Thursday, 15 October

Friday, 16 October

Saturday, 17 October

Sunday, 18 October

What a ship day means here

Get told before a full day

The rest of the year

Where these numbers come from

Official pages