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Average stay

Tourism › Tourism IndicatorsMonthlyDays

Latest
7.4
Aug 2026
On a year earlier
+5.7%
same period last year
Trend growth, 10 years
1.3% 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 7.4 days for Aug 2026, down 1.3% from Jul 2026 and up 5.7% on the same month a year earlier.
  • The change on a year earlier averaged +2.2% over the last three months, against +10.2% 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 1.3% 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 -5% a year over five years and 2% a year over ten.
  • The record high was 86.85 days in May 2020; the latest is 91.5% below it.
  • Year-on-year growth has typically varied by about 6.9 percentage points (one standard deviation) over the past five years.

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.

  • Recent periods are often revised as fuller data arrive. The version comparison below shows what MMA has changed since this site began keeping copies.

MMA’s note: Tourists' average duration of stay in Maldives

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 Average stay
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 Average stay
Aug 20267.4 days+5.7%
Jul 20267.5 days0.0%
Jun 20267.1 days+1.0%
May 20267.6 days+15.8%
Apr 20267.1 days+2.5%
Mar 20267.7 days+12.3%
Feb 20266.87 days+3.0%
Jan 20266.86 days−1.9%
Dec 20257.2 days+2.4%
Nov 20257.1 days+5.6%
Oct 20256.88 days+3.5%
Sep 20256.88 days−0.3%
Aug 20257 days−9.1%
Jul 20257.5 days−2.6%
Jun 20257.03 days−2.4%
May 20256.57 days−10.1%
Apr 20256.93 days−8.8%
Mar 20256.86 days−14.8%
Feb 20256.67 days−14.5%
Jan 20257 days−11.4%
Dec 20247.03 days−8.7%
Nov 20246.72 days−11.5%
Oct 20246.65 days−11.7%
Sep 20246.89 days−4.3%
Aug 20247.7 days+2.5%
Jul 20247.7 days0.0%
Jun 20247.2 days+0.7%
May 20247.3 days+1.4%
Apr 20247.6 days0.0%
Mar 20248.05 days+3.2%

Sorted by Period, descending.

About this series

Source
Ministry of Tourism and Environment
Published by
MMA Statistics Database, series 210
MMA table
Real Sector › Tourism › Tourism Indicators
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.