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Celebrity Apex

Celebrity Cruises · Cruise · In service · built by Chantiers de l'Atlantique

Celebrity Apex repeats the original 130,818 GT Edge hull, and was delivered into the industry shutdown with her debut pushed from April 2020 to June 2021.

Length overall306 m
Beam39 m
Gross tonnage130,818 GT
Passengers2,918
Speed22 kn
Delivered2020
Our numbers

Derived metrics

Computed by ships.fyi from the core specification — see how we calculate these.

Passengers per metre#80 of 116
9.5 pax/m passengers (double occupancy) ÷ length overall
Length-to-beam ratio#86 of 142
7.85 length overall ÷ beam
Sense of scale

How big is it, really?

The Celebrity Apex's length overall, against things you already know the size of.

Celebrity Apex306 m
Eiffel Tower (height)330 m
Titanic269.06 m
Football pitch105 m
Boeing 747-876.3 m
Blue whale25 m
You (probably)1.75 m

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 Celebrity Apex = 1.14 Titanics · 2.9 football pitches · 12 blue whales · 4.0 Boeing 747-8s laid end to end.

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Specification

The numbers

Length overall306 m
Beam39 m
Draught8.4 m
Gross tonnage130,818 GT
Passengers≈2,918 (double)
Staterooms1,467
PropulsionDiesel-electric, 2 × ABB Azipod
Entered serviceJune 2021

Last verified: 2026-07-15 · Spot an error? business@luck.fyi

The story

What makes it different

Celebrity Apex is the second and last Edge-class ship at the original size, sharing the 306-metre, 130,818-ton specification with her lead sister before Celebrity lengthened the design.

Her career started fourteen months late. She was scheduled to debut in April 2020, was finished on time, and then had nowhere to go — she was eventually christened in a virtual ceremony and did not carry paying passengers until June 2021, from Athens.

Everything that defines the class is present: the Magic Carpet moving platform on the starboard side, the Infinite Veranda cabins, the Grand Plaza atrium with its sculptural chandelier, and Eden, a three-deck glass-walled space at the stern that Celebrity has since reworked on later ships.

The class

The Celebrity Apex line

Edge class
Second of the class, identical in size to Celebrity Edge at 130,818 GT before the hull was stretched for Beyond.
Operators

Who operates the Celebrity Apex

All 1 operator of record, verified 2026-07-15. Figures marked ≈ are approximate.

CELCelebrity CruisesMediterranean and Northern Europe; Caribbean in winter.1
Quick answers

Celebrity Apex, asked and answered

How long is the Celebrity Apex?
306 m (1,004 ft) length overall — the #92 longest of the 142 ships on ships.fyi, and 2.9 football pitches end to end.
How big is the Celebrity Apex compared to the Titanic?
The Celebrity Apex is 1.14× the Titanic's length — 306 m against her 269.06 m. By volume the gap is starker still: 130,818 GT against Titanic's 46,328 GRT — roughly 2.8 times the tonnage, measured across two different rule eras.
Who operates the Celebrity Apex?
Celebrity Cruises. Current status: in service.
Does the Celebrity Apex fit through the Panama Canal?
Not the original locks — but yes through the 2016 Neopanamax locks: at 306 m by 39 m on a 8.4 m draft she clears the 366 × 51.25 × 15.2 m expanded gauge.