Macau surpasses one million October Golden Week visitors

The eight-day holiday period ends today.

Macau.- The Public Security Police Force (CPSP) has reported that Macau received more than one million visitor arrivals from October 1 to 7, the first seven days of this year’s eight-day October Golden Week, which ends today. According to preliminary data cited by Macau Business, the average daily number of visitors stood at around 151,000 visitors, slightly above the forecast of 150,000. Police had forecast a total of 1.2 million visitors over the whole eight days.

On the first day of Golden Week, Macau recorded over 673,000 border crossings and 139,000 visitors, increasing to 164,000 the following day and a peak of 191,176 on Saturday (October 4) before declining to 113,051 on Sunday as travel to and from Macau was impacted by Typhoon Matmo. 

The number surpasses 2024’s daily average of around 140,000 visitor arrivals due to various factors, including the longer holiday period this year, as National Day coincides with the Mid-Autumn Festival, creating an eight-day break.

In the first eight months of 2025, 26,895,940 visitor arrivals were recorded, up by 15 per cent year-on-year; same-day visitors (15,716,961) and overnight visitors (11,178,979) grew by 25.5 per cent and 2.9 per cent respectively. 

JP Morgan reported that casino gross gaming revenue (GGR) in Macau was MOP5.5bn (US$686.1m) in the first five days of October That’s a daily average of MOP1.1bn (US$138m). Analysts DS Kim, Selina Li and Lindsey Qian said in a memo that it was the “best Golden Week print in five-plus years.” Their full-month forecast remains unchanged for now at between 11 and 13 per cent growth year-over-year to a six-year high of MOP$23bn (US$2.87bn).

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