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Costa Pacifica

Costa Cruises · Cruise · In service · built by Fincantieri

Costa Pacifica entered service in 2009 at around 114,500 GT, themed entirely on music and delivered alongside Costa Luminosa on the same day.

Length overall290 m
Beam35.5 m
Gross tonnage114,500 GT
Passengers3,780
Speed21.5 kn
Delivered2009
Our numbers

Derived metrics

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

Passengers per metre#30 of 116
13.0 pax/m passengers (double occupancy) ÷ length overall
Length-to-beam ratio#60 of 142
8.17 length overall ÷ beam
Sense of scale

How big is it, really?

The Costa Pacifica's length overall, against things you already know the size of.

Costa Pacifica290 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 Costa Pacifica = 1.08 Titanics · 2.8 football pitches · 12 blue whales · 3.8 Boeing 747-8s laid end to end.

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Specification

The numbers

Length overall≈290 m
Beam≈35.5 m
Gross tonnage≈114,500 GT
Passengers≈3,780 (max)
Crew≈1,100
Decks13 passenger decks
Speed≈21.5 kn
Entered serviceJune 2009

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The story

What makes it different

Costa Pacifica is themed on music from end to end, and unlike most ships that claim a theme she carries the hardware to back it: a working recording studio where passengers can produce a track, alongside public rooms named for songs and genres.

She was christened at Genoa in June 2009 in a double ceremony alongside Costa Luminosa — the first time Costa named two ships on the same day, and a marker of how fast the fleet was expanding before 2012.

The two ships were very different underneath. Pacifica is a 114,500-ton Concordia-class hull; Luminosa was a 92,700-ton Vista-class ship, and later left the fleet entirely to become Carnival Luminosa. Costa's remaining Vista ship is Costa Deliziosa.

The class

The Costa Pacifica line

Concordia class
Third of six. Christened on the same day as Costa Luminosa in a double naming ceremony at Genoa — the first time Costa named two ships together.
The music ship
Themed on music throughout, with a working recording studio where passengers can cut a track.
Operators

Who operates the Costa Pacifica

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

CSTCosta CruisesMediterranean and Northern Europe itineraries.1
Quick answers

Costa Pacifica, asked and answered

How long is the Costa Pacifica?
290 m (951 ft) length overall — the #118 longest of the 142 ships on ships.fyi, and 2.8 football pitches end to end.
How big is the Costa Pacifica compared to the Titanic?
The Costa Pacifica is 1.08× the Titanic's length — 290 m against her 269.06 m. By volume the gap is starker still: 114,500 GT against Titanic's 46,328 GRT — roughly 2.5 times the tonnage, measured across two different rule eras.
Who operates the Costa Pacifica?
Costa Cruises. Current status: in service.
Does the Costa Pacifica fit through the Panama Canal?
Not the original locks — but yes through the 2016 Neopanamax locks: at 290 m by 35.5 m on a 8.2 m draft she clears the 366 × 51.25 × 15.2 m expanded gauge.