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Tourist arrivals from Americas

Monthly Tourist Arrivals › Total tourist arrivalsMonthlyTouristsPart of Total tourist arrivals

Latest
5,242
Aug 2026
On a year earlier
−11.3%
same period last year
2026 to date
53,674
−21.8% on the same stretch of 2025
Trend growth, 10 years
8.7% a year
least-squares fit, R² 0.41

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 5,242 tourists for Aug 2026, down 11.3% on the same month a year earlier.
  • In the first 8 months of 2026 the total was 53,674 tourists, down 21.8% on the same stretch of 2025.
  • Over the latest 12 months it came to 89,663 tourists, down 14.9% on the 12 months before.
  • The change on a year earlier averaged −18.6% over the last three months, against −35.9% 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 8.7% a year (least-squares fit on the logarithm; R² 0.41, a moderate fit, with sizeable swings around the path).
  • Measured end to end, compound growth is 8.7% a year over five years and 6.4% a year over ten, on 12-month totals.
  • The record high (12-month total) was 125,532 tourists in the year to Feb 2023; the latest is 28.6% 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 Americas
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 Americas
Aug 20265,242 tourists−11.3%
Jul 20266,020 tourists−17.5%
Jun 20264,714 tourists−27.0%
May 20265,221 tourists−22.6%
Apr 20265,716 tourists−39.2%
Mar 20266,569 tourists−45.7%
Feb 20269,763 tourists−2.8%
Jan 202610,429 tourists−2.1%
Dec 202511,709 tourists+4.0%
Nov 202510,268 tourists−4.0%
Oct 20257,824 tourists−6.5%
Sep 20256,188 tourists−3.1%
Aug 20255,912 tourists−12.5%
Jul 20257,300 tourists−5.9%
Jun 20256,456 tourists−7.0%
May 20256,746 tourists−4.9%
Apr 20259,408 tourists−6.9%
Mar 202512,108 tourists+5.4%
Feb 202510,048 tourists−0.9%
Jan 202510,658 tourists+0.9%
Dec 202411,256 tourists−3.0%
Nov 202410,695 tourists−1.2%
Oct 20248,369 tourists−3.1%
Sep 20246,384 tourists−10.8%
Aug 20246,759 tourists−0.8%
Jul 20247,757 tourists−0.1%
Jun 20246,944 tourists−6.4%
May 20247,091 tourists−3.4%
Apr 202410,108 tourists−1.9%
Mar 202411,486 tourists−1.0%

Sorted by Period, descending.

About this series

Source
Ministry of Tourism and Environment
Published by
MMA Statistics Database, series 179
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.