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Travel Forecast gives weather forecasts, packing recommendations, and past weather data for cruise destinations. It helps you plan your trips better.
Travel Forecast analyzes the predicted weather (temperature, precipitation, UV index) for every stop on your cruise and suggests specific items to pack, so you're ready for warm days ashore and cool evenings at sea.
You can search for cruise weather using the search bar on our homepage. Type in the cruise line or place to get the latest weather information.
Yes, Travel Forecast gives past weather data for different cruise destinations. You can find this information through our search feature.
We pull from a commercial weather data provider that blends historical station records, current observations, and forecast models, rather than a single free public feed. Forecasts are available for up to 15 days ahead; further out, we show typical conditions for that place and time of year instead of guessing at a forecast.
Each day in your forecast shows an "Updated" time (like "about 2 hours ago") so you know how fresh the numbers are, plus a "Forecast info" tag that tells you what kind of weather data you're looking at. As your cruise gets closer, the data updates more often and that tag moves from "Typical" to a real "Forecast."
The closer your sailing gets, the more often we refresh it. Trips leaving in the next few days update several times a day; ones further out update less often, because the forecast itself barely moves. Check the "Updated" time on any day to see exactly how fresh that one is.
No. We show the forecast for the days your ship is in port, not what it is doing there this minute. If you want current conditions, a weather app for that city will serve you better. What we do instead is line the forecast up with your itinerary, so you can see each port on the day you will actually be there.
On each day of your forecast you'll see a small tag like this one — Forecast — under “Forecast info.” Tap or hover it to see the same explanation right on the page. Here's what each tag means:
Sea days are days when the ship is traveling between two ports. Since there is no specific port location for these days, we calculate the weather by interpolating the data between your last port and your next port when there is exactly one sea day between them. This gives you a representative forecast for your time at sea. If there are multiple sea days in a row, we do not predict the weather to avoid showing identical forecasts for several days.
Wave height and water temperature come from national weather services, including NOAA, DWD, MeteoFrance and ECMWF. It is a different source from the rest of the forecast, which is why it has its own "Water info" note on each day.
We show the average of past years for the same date and place, labelled "Typical," so you can see what is usual without us pretending to predict a specific day.
The "In the water" line is our own read on wave height and swell period, meant as a rough guide to whether it is a good day to snorkel or take a small boat. It is not a measured water-clarity report — there is no such feed for most destinations, and anyone publishing one for a specific beach is writing it by hand. Treat it as a hint, and check locally on the day.
Travel Forecast is completely free, and we have no plans to start charging for it. You will never need to pay to see a forecast. The "15 days" you may see refers to when a real weather forecast becomes available for your trip. Starting 15 days before each stop, we show you the actual forecast. Before that 15-day window, we show typical (historical average) weather for that date and location instead, since no weather service can accurately predict that far in advance. Either way, there is nothing to pay and nothing to sign up for.
We earn a small commission when you book a cruise, hotel, or excursion through one of the partner links on our site, at no extra cost to you. We only earn anything if you choose to book through those links; there is no obligation to use them, and using the weather forecasts and packing tips never costs you anything.
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Yes. Sign in, open Account → Preferences, and turn on Saved cruise updates. Your browser will ask for permission. Once you allow it, that device can receive an update when a saved cruise itinerary changes, when its forecast is ready, the day before it leaves, or severe weather may affect a port day in the final 7 days before departure. This is separate from email reminders, and you can turn it off at any time.
If a forecast, port, or page doesn't look right, please tell us. It genuinely helps us fix it. There's a small Report A Problem button that sits in the bottom corner of every page. Click it, type what you saw (a photo or screenshot helps if you have one), add your email so we can follow up, and send. It goes straight to us.
Prefer to just pick what's wrong from a list? You can do that right here:
Prefer email? That works too. Write to contact@travel-forecast.com and tell us what happened.
You can contact us via email at contact@travel-forecast.com.
Plan a Trip lets you build your own itinerary — cruise or not — and get the same day-by-day weather we show on cruise pages. Add up to ten stops with dates, and we line up a forecast (or typical weather, if the stop is still far off) for each one. Sign in with Google to create a trip; it saves to your account so you can come back to it anytime.
Every trip has a private link you can send to travel companions. Anyone with that link can view the trip and its forecast — no account needed. If you want someone to help you edit it, use the Invite button on the trip page instead; they sign in once to accept, and from then on you're both editing the same trip.
You can have up to 3 active trips at a time, each with up to 10 stops and a 21-day span. Archiving an older trip frees up a slot for a new one — archived trips aren't deleted, just tucked out of the way until you reactivate them.
Some seasonal photos on our homepage come from Unsplash and Pexels. They are used under the Unsplash License and Pexels License.
The Adriatic spring, Alaska glacier, New England fall, and Caribbean winter images were generated for Travel Forecast using OpenAI image generation. All images in the cruise-line directory were generated the same way. They are original, unbranded scenes and do not show a specific ship.