Carnival Panorama
Carnival Cruise Line · Cruise · In service · built by Fincantieri
Carnival Panorama closed the Vista class in 2019 and was placed at Long Beach, the first purpose-built Carnival ship for the California market since the 1990s.
Derived metrics
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How big is it, really?
The Carnival Panorama's length overall, against things you already know the size of.
The 747-8 held the longest-airliner record for over a decade, until Boeing's 777-9 took it by about 19 inches (76.72 m) — our sibling site aircraft.fyi measures everything that flies the same way.
One Carnival Panorama = 1.20 Titanics · 3.1 football pitches · 13 blue whales · 4.2 Boeing 747-8s laid end to end.
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The numbers
| Length overall | ≈323.6 m |
|---|---|
| Beam | 37 m |
| Draft | 8.2 m |
| Gross tonnage | 133,500 GT |
| Passengers | ≈3,954 (double) / ≈4,900 (max) |
| Crew | ≈1,450 |
| Decks | 15 |
| Service speed | 23 kn |
| Entered service | December 2019 |
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What makes it different
Carnival Panorama completed the Vista class in December 2019, and her deployment mattered more than her specification. Carnival placed her at Long Beach on year-round Mexican Riviera runs — the first brand-new Carnival ship based on the US West Coast in about twenty-five years.
Structurally she is a Vista: 133,500 gross tons, fifteen decks, SkyRide overhead, the Havana cabins aft. The notable swap is a Sky Zone trampoline park where Vista and Horizon carry an IMAX screen.
She was also the last Carnival ship delivered before the pandemic, entering service barely three months before the industry stopped — and the last of the pre-Excel generation, which makes her a useful marker of where Carnival's thinking stood before the LNG mega-ships arrived.
The Carnival Panorama line
Vista class
Sky Zone
Who operates the Carnival Panorama
All 1 operator of record, verified 2026-07-15. Figures marked ≈ are approximate.
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