Macau has already reached the milestone of 20-million visitor arrivals this year, with such a figure being recorded 18 days earlier than in 2025, according to the city’s Public Security Police Force.
The landmark number was arrived at by the afternoon of Saturday (June 20).
Macau recorded 40.1 million visitor arrivals in 2025, the highest annual total on record.
In a statement issued on Saturday, the local police said Macau had tallied an average of 116,000 daily visitor arrivals so far this year, up 10.2 percent year-on-year.
Of the 20 million arrivals logged between January 1 and Saturday afternoon, approximately 14.6 million were from the Chinese mainland. Hong Kong accounted for 3.5 million arrivals.
International visitor arrivals during the period stood at around 1.4 million, with South Korea accounting for the largest share, at 270,000 arrivals, followed by the Philippines at 260,000.
Meanwhile, Macau recorded 380,609 visitor arrivals during a three-day Chinese mainland holiday period authorised by the State Council – from June 19 to June 21 inclusive – marking this year’s Dragon Boat Festival.
The tally was 2.5 percent lower than during the comparable period a year earlier, according to GGRAsia’s calculations based on police figures.
The police data did not include a breakdown of the visitors’ source markets.
Hong Kong – Macau’s second-biggest visitor source market – observed June 19 as a public holiday.
Across the three days of the mainland’s Dragon Boat Festival break this year, Macau’s Border Gate – the main inland boundary crossing between Macau and Zhuhai, the nearest mainland city in Guangdong province – was the busiest. It handled 169,977 visitor arrivals in total, accounting for 44.7 percent of all Macau arrivals during the festive period.
The second-busiest boundary checkpoint was the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge crossing, which handled 79,690 visitor arrivals during the period.
