Macau’s 2025 non-Guangdong visitor volume from the Chinese mainland reached circa 79 percent of the 2019 level, show final figures released on Friday.
The visitor aggregate actually from the neighbouring Chinese-mainland province of Guangdong was 33.4 percent higher than 2019, the year prior to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The 2025 contribution of Zhuhai – the Guangdong city nearest to Macau – surged. That coincided with 2.9-million visits from residents from there, that could be directly linked to exit visa easing measures by mainland authorities and in effect from early in the year.
The detailed numbers are according to the official data published by Macau’s Statistics and Census Service.
The visitor volume from non-Guangdong Chinese-mainland markets was 11.91 million in 2025, up 4.7 percent year-on-year. It was a 78.8-percent recovery relative to 2019-level, when the volume was 15.11 million.
The 2025 number of Guangdong visitors was just above 17.10 million, up 30.4 percent year-on-year. The tally was also 33.4 percent higher versus 2019, when that market supplied 12.82 million visitors to Macau, according to past records from the statistics service.
In 2025, Guangdong continued to be Macau’s leading feeder market for mainland tourists, accounting for nearly 59 percent of arrivals from the mainland.
Zhuhai provided 5.39 million arrivals in 2025, up 58.1 percent year-on-year. Of that cohort, 4.34 million or 80.5 percent, were same-day visitors.
The top three non-Guangdong mainland feeder markets for Macau in 2025 were: Zhejiang province (888,492), Shanghai city (853,966), and Jiangsu province (817,410).
Visitor volume from Zhejiang and Jiangsu respectively showed a year-on-year single-digit growth; though that from Shanghai saw a 2.1 percent decline.
The 2025 visitor arrivals from Hong Kong – the second-largest market for Macau – reached 7.30 million, up 1.7 percent year-on-year.
The number of international visitors, those from outside the Greater China market, reached 2.76 million in 2025, up 13.7 percent. That was a nearly 90-percent recovery on the 3.07-million reached in 2019.
Macau’s December visitor tally stood at 3.58 million, confirming full-year 2025 visitor volume at a record figure of nearly 40.07 million.
Around 72 percent of those were visitors from mainland China, or circa 29.02 million, representing 18.5-percent growth year-on-year.
