Legend of the Seas
Royal Caribbean · In service
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The numbers
Side by side
| Legend | Icon | Difference | Bigger | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operator | Royal Caribbean | Royal Caribbean | ||
| Length overall | 365.10 m | 364.75 m | 0.35 m | Legend |
| Beam | 48.65 m | 48.65 m | 0 m | Icon |
| Draft | 9.30 m | 9.30 m | 0 m | Icon |
| Gross tonnage | 248,663 GT | 248,663 GT | 0 GT | Icon |
| Passengers | 5,610 | 5,610 | 0 | Icon |
| Speed | 22 kn | 22 kn | 0 kn | Icon |
The verdict
Which is actually bigger?
A foot of length is the entire difference — Legend measured out fractionally longer at delivery in 2026 and took the world's-largest title from inside her own class. Tonnage, capacity and crew are identical.
The Legend of the Seas is the longer of the two, at 365.10 m against 364.75 m — a difference of 0.35 m. Beam tells the opposite story: the Icon of the Seas is 0.00 m wider, so which one is "bigger" depends on which dimension you care about.
Delivered in June 2026 and a few millimetres longer than her two sisters, Legend of the Seas currently holds the title every cruise ship page on this site has to reckon with: the largest cruise ship in the world. Icon of the Seas rewrote the top of the cruise record books in January 2024 and held the world's-largest title until her sister ships matched and then narrowly exceeded her. Five times the gross tonnage of the Titanic. The silhouettes above are drawn at true relative scale from the sourced figures on each ship's page — same metres, same pixels, no artistic licence.
By gross tonnage — internal volume, the honest measure here — the Icon of the Seas is the larger ship: 248,663 GT against 248,663.
Icon of the Seas
Royal Caribbean · In service
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