International tourist arrivals, year to date
Provisional20.9million
arrivals
Change not shown: June 2026 does not cover the whole month.
- Period
- Jan–Aug 2026
- Source
- Source: Ministry of Tourism and Sports
Tourism statistics
Thailand recorded 20.9 million international tourist arrivals in Jan–Aug 2026, and 33.0 million in the last full year, 2025, according to the Ministry of Tourism and Sports. All figures from 2020 onwards are preliminary.
20.9million
arrivals
Change not shown: June 2026 does not cover the whole month.
33.0million
arrivals
−7.2% vs 2024 (35.5 million)
2.5million
arrivals
−2.6% vs August 2025 (2.6 million)
Hollow markers show provisional or estimated values. Source: Ministry of Tourism and Sports, MOTS International Tourist Arrivals to Thailand.
The highest annual total in the series is 39.9 million in 2019. Arrivals fell to 6.7 million in 2020 and 427,869 in 2021, the lowest year in the series. They reached 35.5 million in 2024 and 33.0 million in 2025, a change of −7.2% on 2024 and 82.6% of the 2019 level.
The figures are the Ministry of Tourism and Sports' published totals from its series "International Tourist Arrivals to Thailand". The ministry labels them as a number of persons and does not publish a definition saying whether someone who enters Thailand more than once is counted more than once.
Values marked P by the ministry are preliminary and may be revised in later releases. Annual totals are the ministry's own full-year figures; the monthly figures sum to them in every year where both are published. The ministry did not publish a monthly breakdown for 2020 or 2021 in the releases located, so those months are shown as missing rather than estimated.
June 2026 excludes 22–25 June: the ministry reports that its foreign tourist statistics system was down on those days. Comparisons involving June 2026, including the 2026 year-to-date total, are therefore not like-for-like and no percentage change is shown for them.
Includes provisional or estimated values; the table shows each value’s status. Source: Ministry of Tourism and Sports, MOTS International Tourist Arrivals to Thailand.
| Month | 2026 | 2025 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 3,277,908 | 3,709,102 | −11.6% |
| February | 3,263,802 | 3,119,445 | +4.6% |
| March | 2,775,199 | 2,720,457 | +2.0% |
| April | 2,368,895 | 2,547,116 | −7.0% |
| May | 2,346,845 | 2,266,574 | +3.5% |
| JuneIncomplete month | 1,841,551 | 2,322,775 | — |
| July | 2,545,616 | 2,610,369 | −2.5% |
| August | 2,515,319 | 2,583,638 | −2.6% |
| September | — | 2,235,852 | — |
| October | — | 2,573,743 | — |
| November | — | 2,914,810 | — |
| December | — | 3,370,440 | — |
Source: Ministry of Tourism and Sports, MOTS International Tourist Arrivals to Thailand.
June 2026: Publisher header "Jun (-4)" marks 4 days as not recorded. Publisher footnote: "เนื่องจากระบบจัดเก็บข้อมูลสถิตินักท่องเที่ยวชาวต่างชาติขัดข้องในช่วงวันที่ 22 - 25 มิถุนายน 2569"
| Period | Arrivals | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2025Provisional | 32,974,321 | −7.2% |
| 2024Provisional | 35,545,714 | +26.3% |
| 2023Provisional | 28,150,016 | +154.4% |
| 2022Provisional | 11,065,226 | +2,486.1% |
| 2021Provisional | 427,869 | −93.6% |
| 2020Provisional | 6,702,396 | −83.2% |
| 2019Revised | 39,916,251 | +4.6% |
| 2018 | 38,178,194 | +7.3% |
| 2017 | 35,591,978 | +9.4% |
| 2016 | 32,529,588 | — |
Source: Ministry of Tourism and Sports, MOTS International Tourist Arrivals to Thailand.
Counts are the publisher's "Grand Total" of international tourist arrivals to Thailand, as published by the Ministry of Tourism and Sports (Tourism and Sports Economics Division) in its series "International Tourist Arrivals to Thailand" (สถิตินักท่องเที่ยวชาวต่างชาติที่เดินทางเข้าประเทศไทย). The publisher labels the counts "จำนวน (คน)" (number of persons) and titles the series "arrivals"; it does not publish a definition stating whether repeat entries by the same person are counted separately. Values marked P by the publisher are preliminary and may be revised. ThailandStats takes each year from the most recent release that reports it as its own year where one is available, and records the release for every value.
2016–2018 are published without a preliminary marker; 2019 is marked R (revised); 2020 onwards are marked P (preliminary).
Annual values are the publisher's own totals, not sums calculated by ThailandStats.
Licence: the publisher does not state reuse terms (unconfirmed). Figures are republished as attributed statistical facts.
No monthly figures are published in the releases located for 2020 and 2021; those months are absent, not estimated.
June 2026 excludes 22–25 June because of an outage in the publisher's recording system; comparisons involving it are not like-for-like.
Latest source release: 1 September 2026. Retrieved by ThailandStats: 23 September 2026.
International tourist arrivals to Thailand, annual
International tourist arrivals to Thailand, monthly
ThailandStats (2026). Thailand Tourist Arrivals. Updated 23 September 2026. https://thailandstats.com/tourism/tourist-arrivals
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