Antarctica Cruises December 2024 & 2025

While the rest of the world is cocooned in winter’s icy embrace, Antarctica in December is in the throngs of the austral summer, when the midnight sun bathes the seventh continent’s icy expanse in ethereal twilight, casting its bedazzling spell over the frozen landscapes, and setting the shimmering stage for a spectacular show of wondrous wildlife and adventurous polar pursuits.

December’s milder weather, retreating ice, and near-daylong sunlight allows for wider and more in depth exploration of Antarctica than earlier in the season, allowing greater access to the region’s now raucous rookeries and rich waters, replete with fuzzy penguin chicks, playful seal pups, and hungry humpback whales returning to their Antarctic feeding grounds.

Embark on an Antarctica cruise in December and sail to an otherworldly realm of awe-inspiring natural beauty, where icebergs glisten like diamonds, the air is crisp with the promise of unbridled adventure, and nature’s most captivating choreography—a mesmerizing dance of penguins, seals, and whales—beckons you into the most enigmatic of domains.