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Tourist bednights from Guest houses

Tourism Indicators › Bed nightsMonthlyBednightsPart of Tourist bednights

Latest
204,522
Aug 2026
On a year earlier
+7.2%
same period last year
2026 to date
1.7m
+20.4% on the same stretch of 2025
Trend growth, 10 years
15.6% a year
least-squares fit, R² 0.60

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 204,522 bednights for Aug 2026, up 7.2% on the same month a year earlier.
  • In the first 8 months of 2026 the total was 1.7 million bednights, up 20.4% on the same stretch of 2025.
  • Over the latest 12 months it came to 2.5 million bednights, up 18.1% on the 12 months before.
  • The change on a year earlier averaged +23.1% over the last three months, against +26.8% in the three months before: the year-on-year pace has eased.

Long term

The record as a whole
  • Trend growth over the past 10 years is 15.6% a year (least-squares fit on the logarithm; R² 0.60, a moderate fit, with sizeable swings around the path).
  • Measured end to end, compound growth is 30% a year over five years and 16.9% a year over ten, on 12-month totals.
  • The record high (12-month total) was 2.5 million bednights in the year to Jun 2026; the latest is 0.5% 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

Capacity and stay. How long visitors stay and how full the beds are. Bednights are arrivals multiplied by length of stay; the occupancy rate is bednights as a share of the bed capacity in operation. Arrivals can rise while bednights lag if stays get shorter. Travel receipts are what visitors spend, in US dollars.

  • 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 bednights from Guest houses
VersionStoredMMA updatedCoversAddedRevisedRemoved
1 (current)6 Oct 202627 Sep 2026Jan 2010 – 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 bednights from Guest houses
Aug 2026204,522 bednights+7.2%
Jul 2026167,096 bednights−13.1%
Jun 2026114,205 bednights+75.3%
May 2026130,246 bednights+51.5%
Apr 2026180,804 bednights+23.2%
Mar 2026258,028 bednights+5.8%
Feb 2026311,990 bednights+31.8%
Jan 2026326,305 bednights+33.1%
Dec 2025247,523 bednights+2.9%
Nov 2025233,522 bednights+29.0%
Oct 2025178,281 bednights+17.6%
Sep 2025143,379 bednights+8.2%
Aug 2025190,753 bednights+22.6%
Jul 2025192,320 bednights+39.3%
Jun 202565,132 bednights−30.8%
May 202585,999 bednights−7.7%
Apr 2025146,754 bednights+3.6%
Mar 2025243,943 bednights+34.8%
Feb 2025236,702 bednights+20.9%
Jan 2025245,228 bednights+26.0%
Dec 2024240,583 bednights−0.6%
Nov 2024181,052 bednights−17.3%
Oct 2024151,555 bednights−11.8%
Sep 2024132,503 bednights−19.4%
Aug 2024155,585 bednights−18.1%
Jul 2024138,050 bednights−23.9%
Jun 202494,086 bednights−31.5%
May 202493,145 bednights−34.7%
Apr 2024141,648 bednights−20.8%
Mar 2024180,936 bednights−18.5%

Sorted by Period, descending.

About this series

Source
Ministry of Tourism and Environment
Published by
MMA Statistics Database, series 206
MMA table
Real Sector › Tourism › Tourism Indicators › Bed nights
Coverage
Jan 2010 to Aug 2026 · 200 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.