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Tourist arrivals from Europe

Monthly Tourist Arrivals › Total tourist arrivalsMonthlyTouristsPart of Total tourist arrivals

Latest
100,014
Aug 2026
On a year earlier
+0.5%
same period last year
2026 to date
813,784
−6.2% on the same stretch of 2025
Trend growth, 10 years
9.5% a year
least-squares fit, R² 0.52

The whole record

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Source: Ministry of Tourism and Environment, via the Maldives Monetary Authority statistics database.

What the numbers say

Short term

The latest readings
  • The latest figure is 100,014 tourists for Aug 2026, up 0.5% on the same month a year earlier.
  • In the first 8 months of 2026 the total was 813,784 tourists, down 6.2% on the same stretch of 2025.
  • Over the latest 12 months it came to 1.3 million tourists, down 0.5% on the 12 months before.
  • The change on a year earlier averaged −3.7% over the last three months, against −20.7% in the three months before: the year-on-year decline has narrowed.

Long term

The record as a whole
  • Trend growth over the past 10 years is 9.5% a year (least-squares fit on the logarithm; R² 0.52, a moderate fit, with sizeable swings around the path).
  • Measured end to end, compound growth is 18.2% a year over five years and 8.6% a year over ten, on 12-month totals.
  • The record high (12-month total) was 1.4 million tourists in the year to Feb 2026; the latest is 6.5% below it.
  • The past five years include an exceptional swing in the annual growth rate, so no typical range is quoted.
  • There is a regular seasonal pattern: over the last 5 full years the high point has been December and the low point June. Compare each month with the same one a year earlier, not with the one before.

How to read this series

Tourist arrivals. Visitors arriving each month, in total and by the region they come from. Arrivals are strongly seasonal, with the northern winter the high season, so the 12-month total is the cleanest measure of the underlying level.

  • A flow: it measures activity during each month, and months add up to an annual total.
  • Recent periods are often revised as fuller data arrive. The version comparison below shows what MMA has changed since this site began keeping copies.

Terms such as percentage points, flows and stocks, and trend growth are explained in How to read the tracker.

Revisions

This site holds one version of this series so far, first stored on 6 Oct 2026. Each time MMA adds a period or revises a past figure, a new version is kept alongside the old one and the two are charted against each other here.

Stored versions of Tourist arrivals from Europe
VersionStoredMMA updatedCoversAddedRevisedRemoved
1 (current)6 Oct 202627 Sep 2026Jan 1988 – Aug 2026———

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All figures

Every period on record, newest first. Sort by any column, filter, copy the table or download it as CSV.

Every observation of Tourist arrivals from Europe
Aug 2026100,014 tourists+0.5%
Jul 202690,239 tourists−1.8%
Jun 202660,191 tourists−9.9%
May 202665,372 tourists−1.6%
Apr 202680,953 tourists−35.9%
Mar 2026104,424 tourists−24.6%
Feb 2026156,249 tourists+7.4%
Jan 2026156,342 tourists+17.7%
Dec 2025145,074 tourists+8.8%
Nov 2025126,451 tourists+16.0%
Oct 2025115,194 tourists+7.9%
Sep 202577,089 tourists+14.8%
Aug 202599,502 tourists+8.7%
Jul 202591,865 tourists+10.1%
Jun 202566,783 tourists+21.6%
May 202566,440 tourists+9.6%
Apr 2025126,287 tourists+26.8%
Mar 2025138,522 tourists−0.3%
Feb 2025145,423 tourists+6.5%
Jan 2025132,840 tourists+7.1%
Dec 2024133,398 tourists+15.9%
Nov 2024108,980 tourists+13.9%
Oct 2024106,805 tourists+15.3%
Sep 202467,157 tourists+12.8%
Aug 202491,498 tourists+17.3%
Jul 202483,434 tourists+21.0%
Jun 202454,914 tourists+9.1%
May 202460,621 tourists+13.6%
Apr 202499,573 tourists+5.3%
Mar 2024138,924 tourists+26.7%

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About this series

Source
Ministry of Tourism and Environment
Published by
MMA Statistics Database, series 105
MMA table
Real Sector › Tourism › Monthly Tourist Arrivals › Total tourist arrivals
Coverage
Jan 1988 to Aug 2026 · 464 observations
MMA updated
27 Sep 2026
Last checked
22 Oct 2026

The analysis is calculated by Good Morning Maldives from the published figures; it describes the data and is not a forecast.