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Total number of arrival flights

Tourism › International Flight MovementsMonthlyFlights

Latest
1,403
Aug 2026
On a year earlier
−0.1%
same period last year
2026 to date
11,147
−3.8% on the same stretch of 2025
Trend growth, 10 years
5.5% a year
least-squares fit, R² 0.32

The whole record

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Source: Maldives Airports Company Limited, via the Maldives Monetary Authority statistics database.

What the numbers say

Short term

The latest readings
  • The latest figure is 1,403 flights for Aug 2026, down 0.1% on the same month a year earlier.
  • In the first 8 months of 2026 the total was 11,147 flights, down 3.8% on the same stretch of 2025.
  • Over the latest 12 months it came to 16,989 flights, down 2.1% on the 12 months before.
  • The change on a year earlier averaged −6.0% over the last three months, against −10.1% 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 5.5% a year (least-squares fit on the logarithm; R² 0.32, a loose fit: the series has not followed a steady path, and this rate says little).
  • Measured end to end, compound growth is 12.5% a year over five years and 3.8% a year over ten, on 12-month totals.
  • The record high (12-month total) was 17,658 flights in the year to Feb 2026; the latest is 3.8% 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 Total number of arrival flights
VersionStoredMMA updatedCoversAddedRevisedRemoved
1 (current)6 Oct 202627 Sep 2026Jan 2012 – 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 Total number of arrival flights
Aug 20261,403 flights−0.1%
Jul 20261,351 flights−2.1%
Jun 20261,005 flights−15.8%
May 20261,195 flights−4.3%
Apr 20261,217 flights−18.0%
Mar 20261,447 flights−8.1%
Feb 20261,678 flights+11.1%
Jan 20261,851 flights+3.2%
Dec 20251,745 flights+3.4%
Nov 20251,498 flights+1.8%
Oct 20251,384 flights−1.6%
Sep 20251,215 flights+1.9%
Aug 20251,405 flights+2.3%
Jul 20251,380 flights+1.4%
Jun 20251,194 flights+4.4%
May 20251,249 flights+3.1%
Apr 20251,484 flights+9.6%
Mar 20251,575 flights+4.4%
Feb 20251,511 flights+1.4%
Jan 20251,794 flights+10.1%
Dec 20241,687 flights+10.9%
Nov 20241,472 flights+9.5%
Oct 20241,407 flights+5.5%
Sep 20241,192 flights+3.4%
Aug 20241,374 flights+10.2%
Jul 20241,361 flights+12.4%
Jun 20241,144 flights+5.7%
May 20241,211 flights+5.3%
Apr 20241,354 flights+3.8%
Mar 20241,508 flights+2.4%

Sorted by Period, descending.

About this series

Source
Maldives Airports Company Limited
Published by
MMA Statistics Database, series 242
MMA table
Real Sector › Tourism › International Flight Movements
Coverage
Jan 2012 to Aug 2026 · 176 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.