Castro, Chile
Today, Saturday 7 November 2026, 1 cruise ship with about 224 passengers is scheduled in Castro. Over the next 12 months, 10 calls bring about 3,900 passengers.
Ship schedule
Next 10 calls · all times local (Chile Time)
Showing 10 of the next 17 calls
Cruise Ships in Castro
Today and the next 7 days · all times local (Chile Time)
32% quieter than a typical day in Castro. Busiest midnight – midnight, when 1 ship is alongside.
Next 7 days
- Sat7 Nov364Light1 ship
- Sun8 Nov–No ships0 ships
- Mon9 Nov–No ships0 ships
- Tue10 Nov–No ships0 ships
- Wed11 Nov–No ships0 ships
- Thu12 Nov–No ships0 ships
- Fri13 Nov–No ships0 ships
Thousands of people in port, guests plus crew. Crowd level compared with a typical Castro day.
Planning a day in Castro?
The crowd calendar shows every ship and how busy the port is, hour by hour, plus the quietest and busiest days for the next 90 days.
Where is the Castro cruise port?
Ships call at Castro on the east side of Isla Grande de Chiloe. The map pin marks the Puerto Castro harbour area on the city waterfront as a general harbour reference, not a verified cruise passenger berth. How passengers go ashore can vary by sailing.
Getting to the Castro cruise port
Driving to the port
Exact cruise passenger landing within the Castro harbour area is not fixed in a single published description; ask your ship for the day's shore arrangements.
About Castro
Castro is a city on Isla Grande de Chiloe in southern Chile, the main transport and tourism hub for the Chiloe Archipelago. The waterfront is known for wooden palafitos stilt houses over the tidal flats, and the town spreads uphill from the harbour toward churches and markets that serve both island residents and visitors.
The setting is cool and maritime. Cruise passengers call here as a port of call on southern Chile itineraries rather than as a major embarkation city. Nearby mainland hubs across the channel are separate destinations.
- Climate
- Isla Grande de Chiloe has an oceanic-leaning, humid, temperate climate: rainfall peaks in winter, and there is no dry summer period. In the intermediate depression that includes Castro, annual precipitation is around 2,000 mm. Cool, wet conditions year-round; waterproof layers are the practical expectation.
- Time zone
- Chile Time
- Currency
- Chilean peso (CLP)