Macau’s visitor arrivals for February increased 32.6 percent year-on-year “driven by the lunar new year holidays,” stated the city’s government in a Friday update.
The month’s aggregate was just over 4.17 million, said the Statistics and Census Service.
The portion of visitors from the Chinese mainland increased 43.6 percent year-on-year, to just over 3.29 million, or 78.9 percent of all visitors in February.
This time, the Chinese New Year (CNY) holiday on the mainland – marking the Year of the Fire Horse – lasted nine days, from February 15 to 23 inclusive. In 2025, the fresh lunar year was celebrated by an eight-day break there, from January 28 to February 4 that year.
Last month, mainlanders arriving to Macau under the exit-permit system for independent Chinese travellers, known as the Individual Visit Scheme (IVS), accounted for just over 2.03-million entries, up 52.7 percent from a year earlier.
Visitors from Hong Kong (591,300) and Taiwan (89,628) in February rose 2.0 percent and 31.9 percent year-on-year respectively.
International visitors tallied 200,848 in February – or 4.8 percent of the total – down 3.3 percent year-on-year.
Same-day visitors last month amounted to just under 2.68 million, up 41.8 percent from the prior-year period. The aggregate for overnight visitors – regarded by investment analysts as typically the most valuable to the city’s tourism sector – came to nearly 1.50 million during February, 18.8-percent higher than a year ago.
Average length of stay of all visitors in February shortened by 0.2 day year-on-year to 0.9 day, with that of overnight visitors decreasing by 0.1 day to 2.1 days.
Across the first two months of this year, Macau visitor arrivals rose 15.1 percent year-on-year to just above 7.82 million. Same-day visitors tallied just over 4.93 million, and overnight visitors stood at nearly 2.89 million in the first two months, representing respective growth of 22.0 percent and 5.0 percent from a year earlier.
The number of international visitors was 479,301 in the opening two months of 2026, up 6.8 percent year-on-year, and representing 6.1 percent of all tourism arrivals for the period.
