Singapore recorded 1.30 million visitor arrivals in March, down 5.8 percent from the previous month, and also down 11.5 percent year-on-year, according to the latest update from the Singapore Tourism Board (STB).
The number of overnight visitors the city-state received in March was 932,530, down 17.1 percent year-on-year.
The March numbers took Singapore’s visitor arrivals recorded in the first three months of this year to 4.31 million, flat compared to the same period in 2024. Around 73.5 percent of the first-quarter 2025 tally – or 3.17 million – were overnight visitors, though the size of that cohort declined by 3.3 percent compared to the same quarter last year, the tourism board’s data indicate.
The average length of stay measured across all international visitors was 3.49 days in the first three months of this year, up slightly by 1.2 percent year-on-year.
Visitor arrivals from China – the city-state’s top source markets – registered year-on-year growth in the first three months of this year. Arrivals from two other key and nearby feeder markets – Indonesia and Malaysia – showed a different trend.
In the January to March period, Singapore recorded 831,470 visitor arrivals from China, up 5.8 percent when compared to the same period last year. The quarterly tally from China also marked an 86.6 percent recovery compared to the same period in 2019, the immediate trading year before the Covid-19 pandemic. In the first quarter 2019, the city-state had received 960,340 visitors from China.
For the opening quarter this year, Indonesia – Singapore’s second most important feeder market – supplied 640,260 visitors, down 3.7 percent on the same period in 2024. Arrivals from Indonesia in the January to March period nonetheless marked an 88.3 percent recovery on the same period in 2019, when Singapore recorded 724,780 arrivals from that nation.
The city-state had 312,220 visitor arrivals from Malaysia throughout January to March, a tally down 0.5 percent on the same period last year. The latest quarterly tally though represented a 10.2-percent increase, versus the 283,200 visitors Malaysia supplied to Singapore in the same period in 2019.
