Singapore saw an 8.1-percent year-on-year dip in its international visitor arrivals in January, led by a fall in volume from the city-state’s top feeder markets China and Indonesia, show the latest data from Singapore Tourism Board (STB).
January arrivals tallied 1.50 million. Of those, 1.11 million were recorded as overnight visitors, representing a 7.0-percent year-on-year decline.
Average length of stay across all international markets was 3.43 days in January, a 2.6-percent decline in durtation year-on-year.
The top-five markets for the city-state’s inbound tourists in January were: mainland China (271,950), Indonesia (218,440), Australia (140,780), Malaysia (116,680), and India (86,000). They had also been the top-five source markets for calendar-year 2025.
Nonetheless the January figures from mainland China were down 27.8 percent year-on-year. Those from Indonesia were down 13.2 percent.
The Chinese mainland has been one of the most significant tourism source markets for Singapore since pre-Covid 19 times.
In 2025, mainland China supplied 3.1 million visitors to Singapore, up 0.7-percent year-on-year. The city-state’s international-visitor arrivals for full-year 2025 stood at 16.9 million, up 2.3 percent year-on-year.
The 2025 tally from mainland China represented a circa 85.4-percent recovery from the pre-Covid trading year of 2019, when that market supplied 3.63 million visitors to Singapore. In 2019, the Chinese mainland had been Singapore’s biggest-single market, followed by Indonesia with 3.11 million.
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