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Tourists from Malaysia to Thailand

Thailand recorded 4,520,856 international tourist arrivals of Malaysia nationality in 2025 and 2,658,686 in Jan–Aug 2026, according to the Ministry of Tourism and Sports. Malaysia was the 1st largest source market in 2025, with 13.7% of all international arrivals. All figures are preliminary.

Data through
August 2026
Updated
Source retrieved

Arrivals from Malaysia, year to date

Provisional

2.7million

arrivals

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

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

Full year 2025

Provisional

4.5million

arrivals

−8.7% vs 2024 (4,952,078)

Period
2025
Source
Source: Ministry of Tourism and Sports

Rank among markets

Provisional

1st

13.7% of all arrivals

Period
2025
Source
Source: Ministry of Tourism and Sports

Latest month

Provisional

297,336

arrivals

−24.1% vs August 2025 (391,777)

Period
August 2026
Source
Source: Ministry of Tourism and Sports

Monthly arrivals

Arrivals of Malaysia nationality, by monthJanuary 2022 to August 2026, arrivals.
0250k500k750k1mFeb 23Apr 24Jun 25Aug 26297.3k

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

What the figures show

Between 2020 and 2025, the highest annual total for Malaysia was 4,952,078 in 2024. Arrivals in 2025 were −8.7% compared with 2024. In 2025, the busiest month was January (443,015) and the quietest was March (292,436).

The Ministry of Tourism and Sports classifies arrivals by nationality, so these figures count visitors holding Malaysia nationality wherever they travelled from. The ministry does not state whether someone who enters Thailand more than once is counted more than once. The ministry flags June 2026 as not fully recorded, so changes involving that month are not shown.

2026 compared with 2025

Monthly arrivals, 2026 compared with 2025Change is shown only where both months are complete.
Month20262025Change
January303,329443,015−31.5%
February313,506418,045−25.0%
March342,188292,436+17.0%
April309,942362,636−14.5%
May468,973385,332+21.7%
JuneIncomplete month316,265398,433
July307,147358,287−14.3%
August297,336391,777−24.1%
September428,712
October378,143
November321,869
December342,171

Source: Ministry of Tourism and Sports, International Tourist Arrivals to Thailand (by nationality).

By year

Arrivals of Malaysia nationality by yearRank among countries; share of all international arrivals
YearArrivalsRankShare
20254,520,8561st13.7%
20244,952,0782nd13.9%
20234,626,4221st16.4%
20221,949,5301st17.6%
20215,51121st1.3%
2020619,4512nd9.2%

Source: Ministry of Tourism and Sports, International Tourist Arrivals to Thailand (by nationality).

Methodology

Rows of the Ministry of Tourism and Sports "International Tourist Arrivals to Thailand" releases for individual countries, as labelled by the publisher (nationality). Publisher labels are mapped to ISO 3166-1 codes; regional subtotals and "Other in …" residual rows are not included as countries. Values marked P are preliminary.

The publisher classifies visitors by nationality. A country's figure counts arrivals of that nationality, wherever they travel from.

Countries plus residual rows sum to the publisher's Grand Total; the residual rows are not shown as countries.

The 2020 and 2021 releases label South Korea as "Korea" and have no separate North Korea row.

Licence: the publisher does not state reuse terms (unconfirmed). Figures are republished as attributed statistical facts.

June 2026 excludes 22–25 June (publisher's recording system outage); comparisons involving it are not like-for-like.

Sources

International tourist arrivals to Thailand by nationality, monthly

Source
MOTS International Tourist Arrivals to Thailand
Dataset
International Tourist Arrivals to Thailand: arrivals by nationality, monthly
Last updated by publisher
1 September 2026
Retrieved
23 September 2026
Licence
Not stated by the publisher (unconfirmed)
Source releases used (5)

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