Cozumel has record breaking start to 2025 with cruise visitors

On April 13, 2025, the Cozumel City Council announced that the city had set a new cruise tourism record following a successful start to the sailing season this year.

While Cozumel remains one of the most visited ports in the world, it has been trying for years to reach the level of cruise tourism it received in pre-pandemic times.

This new record of reported cruise passengers is important because it did not just match the pre-pandemic numbers — it exceeded them.

During the first three months of 2025, Cozumel was visited by 1,502,727 cruisers. The previous record was set in 2019, when during the same time of year the port welcomed around 1.4 million cruise tourists.

Currently, the city has the goal of trying to break another record by hosting 5 million cruisers by the end of 2025.

“Last year, Cozumel welcomed 4,623,000 tourists; the goal is to reach 5 million. We will achieve this by working closely with the shipping companies, tourism entrepreneurs on the island, and internationally,” Méndez added.

If the city achieves this goal, it will replace the current highest annual total of cruise passengers Cozumel has seen, which was in 2024.

Prior to that, the port had seen 4.3 million cruisers in 2018 — but both the port’s rise in popularity and the boom in cruise tourism post-pandemic are proving to be all-around beneficial for Cozumel.

Just this week, the Quintana Roo Comprehensive Port Authority announced that they were expecting to see 80,459 passengers arrive on 21 vessels between April 14 and 20.

Source: Cruise Hive