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Thailand Tourist Arrivals

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.

Data through
August 2026
Published
Updated
Source retrieved

International tourist arrivals, year to date

Provisional

20.9million

arrivals

Change not shown: June 2026 does not cover the whole month.

Period
Jan–Aug 2026
Source
Source: Ministry of Tourism and Sports

Latest full year

Provisional

33.0million

arrivals

−7.2% vs 2024 (35.5 million)

Period
2025
Source
Source: Ministry of Tourism and Sports

Latest month

Provisional

2.5million

arrivals

−2.6% vs August 2025 (2.6 million)

Period
August 2026
Source
Source: Ministry of Tourism and Sports

Trend

International tourist arrivals, Thailand, by year2016 to 2025, arrivals. Complete years only.
012.5m25m37.5m50m201620192022202533m

Hollow markers show provisional or estimated values. Source: Ministry of Tourism and Sports, MOTS International Tourist Arrivals to Thailand.

What the figures show

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.

About this data

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.

Monthly arrivals

International tourist arrivals, Thailand, by monthJanuary 2022 to August 2026, arrivals.
01.3m2.5m3.8m5mFeb 23Apr 24Jun 25Aug 262.5m

Includes provisional or estimated values; the table shows each value’s status. Source: Ministry of Tourism and Sports, MOTS International Tourist Arrivals to Thailand.

Monthly arrivals, 2026 compared with 2025Change is shown only where both months are complete.
Month20262025Change
January3,277,9083,709,102−11.6%
February3,263,8023,119,445+4.6%
March2,775,1992,720,457+2.0%
April2,368,8952,547,116−7.0%
May2,346,8452,266,574+3.5%
JuneIncomplete month1,841,5512,322,775
July2,545,6162,610,369−2.5%
August2,515,3192,583,638−2.6%
September2,235,852
October2,573,743
November2,914,810
December3,370,440

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"

Historical data

International tourist arrivals, Thailand, by year2016–2025, newest first. Values are official unless labelled.
PeriodArrivalsChange
2025Provisional32,974,321−7.2%
2024Provisional35,545,714+26.3%
2023Provisional28,150,016+154.4%
2022Provisional11,065,226+2,486.1%
2021Provisional427,869−93.6%
2020Provisional6,702,396−83.2%
2019Revised39,916,251+4.6%
201838,178,194+7.3%
201735,591,978+9.4%
201632,529,588

Source: Ministry of Tourism and Sports, MOTS International Tourist Arrivals to Thailand.

Methodology

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.

Sources

Latest source release: 1 September 2026. Retrieved by ThailandStats: 23 September 2026.

International tourist arrivals to Thailand, annual

Source
MOTS International Tourist Arrivals to Thailand
Dataset
International Tourist Arrivals to Thailand (สถิตินักท่องเที่ยวชาวต่างชาติที่เดินทางเข้าประเทศไทย): annual Grand Total
Last updated by publisher
1 September 2026
Retrieved
23 September 2026
Licence
Not stated by the publisher (unconfirmed)
Source releases used (6)

International tourist arrivals to Thailand, monthly

Source
MOTS International Tourist Arrivals to Thailand
Dataset
International Tourist Arrivals to Thailand (สถิตินักท่องเที่ยวชาวต่างชาติที่เดินทางเข้าประเทศไทย): monthly Grand Total
Last updated by publisher
1 September 2026
Retrieved
23 September 2026
Licence
Not stated by the publisher (unconfirmed)
Source releases used (6)

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ThailandStats (2026). Thailand Tourist Arrivals. Updated 23 September 2026. https://thailandstats.com/tourism/tourist-arrivals

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