Ship Time vs Roatán Time
People miss the all-aboard in Roatán for one reason more than any other: they read a local clock and thought it was ship time. What is wrong is believing you can guess the gap in advance.
One thing is certain, all year round: Roatán is on UTC-6, with no daylight saving. The rest you measure on your own ship, in ten seconds, with the tool below.
Roatán stays on UTC-6 all year. Your ship keeps its own clock, and it may or may not match ours. No website can tell you which one your ship is on, so read it off your ship and work from the real number.
Honduras does not use daylight saving, so the island never moves its clocks. That part is fixed and you can rely on it.
The clock in your cabin, the one on the daily programme, or the one in your cruise line app. That is your ship time.
We convert it into the time you will read on a phone here, using the gap you just measured.
The habit that keeps you aboard
Leave your phone and your watch on ship time for the whole port day. The only clock that decides anything is the one on board.
Why we no longer publish a gap per departure port
We used to. It was a time-zone deduction, not a measurement, and one check broke it: for Icon of the Seas at Roatán, Royal Caribbean publishes the same hours as the pier, while a ship kept on Miami time would show two hours more. So we stopped guessing. The gap above is the one you measured on your own ship, today.
These are published schedules, not guarantees. Your ship sets its own all-aboard time and can change it. The announcements on board and your cruise line’s app are your only source of truth: go by those, never by this page.
Looking for your ship’s exact call time? See the Roatán cruise ship schedule, the Coxen Hole cruise port page, or Isla Tropicale.