Macau visitors for January-September up 14.5% year-on-year

Arrivals reached 2.7 million in September, up 9.8 per cent compared to September 2024.

Macau.- The Statistics and Census Service of Macau (DSEC) has reported that the number of visitor arrivals to Macau reached 29,671,070 in the first three quarters of 2025, up by 14.5 per cent year-on-year. 

Same-day visitors (17,278,529) and overnight visitors (12,392,541) rose by 24.9 per cent and 2.5 per cent year-on-year, respectively. The cumulative average length of stay decreased by 0.1 day to 1.1 days, due to the growth in the proportion of same-day visitors. The average duration of stay for same-day visitors (0.2 day) and overnight visitors (2.3 days) remained unchanged year-on-year.

Visitors from the Chinese mainland increased by 18.4 per cent year-on-year to 21,578,479, with those travelling under the Individual Visit Scheme (11,505,928) rising by 24.3 per cent. Some 1,442,328 travelled under the “one trip per week measure”, 444,326 under the “multiple-entry measure” and 118,120 under the “tourist group multi-entry measure”. Visitors from the nine Pearl River Delta cities in the Greater Bay Area rose by 24 per cent to 10,905,564. Visitors from the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (5,479,564) and the Taiwan region (727,062) were up by 1.4 per cent and 16.5 per cent respectively.

International visitors totalled 1,885,965, up by 12.4 per cent. Among Southeast Asian markets, visitors from the Philippines (382,851), Indonesia (146,490), Malaysia (121,409) and Thailand (114,933) rose by 10.8 per cent, 14.6 per cent, 3.1 per cent and 20.8 per cent respectively. Visitors from India (80,917) climbed by 5 per cent year-on-year.

From Northeast Asian markets, visitors from the Republic of Korea (382,494) and Japan (116,224) grew by 12 per cent and 25 per cent respectively. Visitors from the USA (112,330) were up by 8.7 per cent year-on-year.

Analysed by checkpoint, the number of visitor arrivals by land (24,534,804; 82.7 per cent of total) grew by 19.5 per cent and those arriving through the checkpoint of Border Gate and the Hengqin port by 23.1 per cent and 40 per cent respectively. Arrivals by sea (2,914,403; 9.8 per cent) and by air (2,221,863; 7.5 per cent) dropped by 5.4 per cent and 3.5 per cent.

In September 2025, the number of visitor arrivals rose by 9.8 per cent year-on-year to 2,775,130; same-day visitors (1,561,568) grew by 19.4 per cent while overnight visitors (1,213,562) dropped by 0.5 per cent. The average length of stay of visitors shortened by 0.1 day year-on-year to 1.2 days.

The Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ) reported that Macau’s gross gaming revenue (GGR) was MOP18.3bn (US$2.27bn) in September. That’s an increase of 6 per cent in year-on-year terms, but 17.5 per cent behind August, when GGR reached MOP22.16bn (US$2.77bn). Casino operations in September were disrupted by Super Typhoon Ragasa, which led to a government-mandated closure of casinos for 33 hours.

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