Cruising in the Mediterranean can include the area from Gibraltar to the Middle East, North Africa, Red Sea, Black Sea and some eastern European ports.

A Western Mediterranean cruise leaving from the UK will typically last around 12 days with calls at Atlantic ports like Cadiz in Spain and Lisbon in Portugal on the way there and back.

Ports of call that might be visited on a Mediterranean cruise:

Europe

• Spanish mainland ports - Barcelona, Cadiz, Malaga, Valencia
• Balearic Islands - Ibiza, Majorca, Minorca
• Canary Islands - Tenerife, Gran Canaria, La Palma, La Gomera, El Hierro
• French ports - Cannes, Villefranche (for Nice), Monte Carlo, St Tropez, Ajaccio (Corsica)
• Italian ports - Genoa, (the hub of Italian cruising and a major gateway to the Med), Civitavecchia (for Rome), Livorno (for Florence, Naples, Sorrento, Portofino), Venice, Sardinia, Amalfi, Catania, Portoferraio (Elba)
• Malta - Valetta
• Cyprus - Limassol, Paphos, Larnaca
• Greece - Piraeus and Loutraki (for Athens), Corfu, Rhodes, Heraklion (Crete), Santorini, Zante, Katakolon or Patras (for Olympia), Kykonos, Skiathos, Volos, Cephalonia, Delos, Gythion (for Sparta), Nafplion (for Epidarus) Corinth and Mycenae), Pylos (for Methone)
• Turkey - Istanbul, Izmir or Kusadasi (for Ephesus), Bodrum, Dikili, (for Pergamum), Canakkale (for Troy), Antalya (for Asepndos and Perge)

Middle East

• Israel - Haifa, Ashdod (for Jerusalem), Tel Aviv
• Egypt - Alexandria and Port Said (for Cairo), Safaga (for Luxor)
• Syria - Tartous (for Krak des Chevaliers or Damascus)

Black Sea

• Bulgaria - Varna, Nesebur
• Ukraine - Yalta, Odessa
• Romania - Constanta

North Africa

• Moroco - Tangier, Agadir and Casablanca (for Marrakech and Rabat)
• Tunisia - Sidi Bou Said (for Tunis and Carthage)