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Tourist arrivals from Asia and The Pacific

Monthly Tourist Arrivals › Total tourist arrivalsMonthlyTouristsPart of Total tourist arrivals

Latest
77,621
Aug 2026
On a year earlier
+3.4%
same period last year
2026 to date
497,837
+4.2% on the same stretch of 2025
Trend growth, 10 years
1.2% a year
least-squares fit, R² 0.01

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 77,621 tourists for Aug 2026, up 3.4% on the same month a year earlier.
  • In the first 8 months of 2026 the total was 497,837 tourists, up 4.2% on the same stretch of 2025.
  • Over the latest 12 months it came to 726,248 tourists, up 6.7% on the 12 months before.
  • The change on a year earlier averaged −1.8% over the last three months, against +6.4% in the three months before: the year-on-year change has turned negative.

Long term

The record as a whole
  • Trend growth over the past 10 years is 1.2% a year (least-squares fit on the logarithm; R² 0.01, a loose fit: the series has not followed a steady path, and this rate says little).
  • Measured end to end, compound growth is 27.7% a year over five years and 2.1% a year over ten, on 12-month totals.
  • The record high (12-month total) was 729,007 tourists in the year to May 2026; the latest is 0.4% 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 August 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 Asia and The Pacific
VersionStoredMMA updatedCoversAddedRevisedRemoved
1 (current)6 Oct 202627 Sep 2026Jan 1988 – Aug 2026———

Sorted by Version, descending.

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 Asia and The Pacific
Aug 202677,621 tourists+3.4%
Jul 202673,940 tourists−2.0%
Jun 202651,844 tourists−6.9%
May 202659,311 tourists+8.0%
Apr 202657,595 tourists+9.5%
Mar 202648,385 tourists+1.5%
Feb 202678,598 tourists+53.3%
Jan 202650,543 tourists−22.3%
Dec 202558,106 tourists+6.3%
Nov 202550,565 tourists+11.6%
Oct 202560,826 tourists+17.9%
Sep 202558,914 tourists+14.2%
Aug 202575,035 tourists+11.7%
Jul 202575,456 tourists+18.0%
Jun 202555,673 tourists+14.8%
May 202554,899 tourists+20.3%
Apr 202552,577 tourists+9.9%
Mar 202547,654 tourists+17.3%
Feb 202551,266 tourists−17.4%
Jan 202565,062 tourists+27.6%
Dec 202454,644 tourists−7.7%
Nov 202445,315 tourists−10.1%
Oct 202451,586 tourists−0.8%
Sep 202451,570 tourists−8.6%
Aug 202467,189 tourists+15.0%
Jul 202463,934 tourists+14.2%
Jun 202448,477 tourists−4.7%
May 202445,618 tourists−11.9%
Apr 202447,853 tourists−4.9%
Mar 202440,643 tourists−7.5%

Sorted by Period, descending.

About this series

Source
Ministry of Tourism and Environment
Published by
MMA Statistics Database, series 151
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.