Macau recorded an aggregate of 20.94 million visitor arrivals during the first half this year, up circa 9 percent on the nearly 19.22 million confirmed for first-half 2025. The latest unofficial data are according to reports of commentary from the city’s Public Security Police, the agency responsible for immigration clearance.
Per local Chinese-language media reports, the latest figures were mentioned during a Tuesday meeting between a community consultative committee and the police, about boosting traveller-throughput at the city’s checkpoints. The busiest of them link directly to Zhuhai in the neighbouring Chinese-mainland province of Guangdong.
The media reports of police commentary did not give the breakdown by origin, of the 20.94 million first-half arrivals this time. Consistently across the whole of last year, 70-percent plus of arrivals have been from the Chinese mainland.
The first six months of each year, mark two major holidays on the Chinese mainland: Chinese New Year in either January or February, and the Labour Day holidays in early May.
The first-half 2026 tally reported by the police suggested the city handled circa 2.80 million visitor arrivals from all source markets in June this time. The city recorded 2.89 million visitor arrivals in June 2025, according to data from Macau’s Statistics and Census Service.
Official statistics for this June and the first six months of 2026 are due to be released later this month.
In the January to May official numbers already issued, Macau had 18.14 million visitor arrivals, up 11.1 percent year-on-year, per GGRAsia’s review of the data. Growth was driven by the same-day visitor cohort.
In the first five months, Macau had 11.25 million same-day visitors, up 17.6-percent year-on-year. The tally of overnight visitors was 6.89 million, up 2.0 percent year-on-year.
