May visitor arrivals to Singapore went up 7.6 percent year-on-year to 1.37 million, with China as the top feeder market, according to Singapore Tourism Board (STB).
The number of overnight visitors was 1.03 million, up by 6.7 percent year-on-year, and 75 percent of the visitor total.
The top five source markets last month were: China (242,010), Indonesia (197,880), India (154,400), Malaysia (111,670) and Australia (90,140).
The May tallies from China, Indonesia, Malaysia and Australia showed year-on-year growth, though the average stay length of visitors from each of these feeder markets was below the average across all international visitor segments, the latter figure being 3.56 days during that month.
In May, the number of visitors from India marked a decline of 1.4 percent year-on-year. The average stay length of this cohort however, stood at 6.37 days.
The overall May numbers took Singapore’s visitor arrivals in the first five months of this year to 7.09 million, up 2.3 percent from the same period in 2024. That tally reached 91.2 percent of the city-state’s inbound visitor volume in the first five months of 2019, which stood at 7.77 million at the time.
Around 73.6 percent of the January-to-May 2025 tally – or 5.22 million – were overnight visitors. While the size of the overnighter cohort was flat when compared to the same period last year, it also represented a 87.9 percent recovery to the equivalent period in 2019. In the latter time period, the city-state received 5.94 million overnight visitors, show the tourism board’s records.
In the first five months this year, the average length of stay measured across all international source markets was 3.49 days, unchanged year-on-year.
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