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Occupancy rate

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Latest
58.94%
Aug 2026
On a year earlier
−2.14 pp
same period last year
Five-year average
58.51%
On five years ago
−5.94 pp

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 58.94% for Aug 2026, down 0.73 percentage points from Jul 2026 and down 2.14 percentage points on the same month a year earlier.
  • The change on a year earlier averaged +0.19 pp over the last three months, against −7.05 pp in the three months before: the year-on-year change has turned positive.

Long term

The record as a whole
  • It has averaged 58.51% over the past five years and 55.94% over ten; the latest figure is 0.42 pp above the five-year average.

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.

  • Changes in a rate or ratio are given in percentage points, the plain difference between two readings.
  • 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: Percentage of rooms occupied during a given period

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 Occupancy rate
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 Occupancy rate
Aug 202658.94%−2.14 pp
Jul 202659.66%+1.96 pp
Jun 202640.05%+0.74 pp
May 202642.75%−0.45 pp
Apr 202648.65%−11.13 pp
Mar 202655.27%−9.57 pp
Feb 202676.53%−1.21 pp
Jan 202670.65%−2.76 pp
Dec 202562.49%−3.59 pp
Nov 202556.04%+3.07 pp
Oct 202557.88%−0.46 pp
Sep 202546.68%+1.69 pp
Aug 202561.08%−2.39 pp
Jul 202557.7%+1.05 pp
Jun 202539.31%−0.52 pp
May 202543.19%−1.50 pp
Apr 202559.79%−2.60 pp
Mar 202564.84%−4.61 pp
Feb 202577.74%−1.79 pp
Jan 202573.41%+3.25 pp
Dec 202466.08%+6.55 pp
Nov 202452.97%−7.66 pp
Oct 202458.34%+2.59 pp
Sep 202444.98%−0.17 pp
Aug 202463.47%+6.01 pp
Jul 202456.65%+9.07 pp
Jun 202439.82%−3.61 pp
May 202444.69%+0.93 pp
Apr 202462.38%−1.59 pp
Mar 202469.45%+3.27 pp

Sorted by Period, descending.

About this series

Source
Ministry of Tourism and Environment
Published by
MMA Statistics Database, series 216
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.