Bali Tourism Statistics Updated November 2026

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142 Bali Tourism Statistics for 2026

Bali received 6,948,754 direct foreign tourist arrivals in 2025, a record, and Indonesians made an estimated 9.6 million domestic tourist trips to the island. Nearly half of all foreign visits to Indonesia now come in through Bali.

This page gathers the official figures on Bali tourism in one place: foreign arrivals and source markets, the 2026 trend, domestic trips, spending, the tourist levy, the economy, hotels and villas, attractions, transport, the seasons and how visitors rate the island. Every number links to the body that published it, with the date.

Most figures come from Indonesia's statistics agency, BPS, and the Bali Tourism Office. Where a series changed method, as length of stay did in 2020 and the business registry did more recently, we say so and do not compare figures across the break.

Headline figures

How many foreign tourists visit Bali each year?

More foreign tourists arrive in Bali now than ever before. Arrivals almost stopped in 2021, passed the 2019 record in 2024 and set a new high in 2025.

2.49m 2010 2.76m 2011 2.89m 2012 3.28m 2013 3.77m 2014 4.00m 2015 4.93m 2016 5.70m 2017 6.07m 2018 6.28m 2019 1.07m 2020 51 2021 2.16m 2022 5.27m 2023 6.33m 2024 6.95m 2025
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Direct foreign arrivals to Bali, 2010 to 2025. Arrivals fell to 51 in 2021 and passed the 2019 level in 2024.
PeriodValue
20102.49m
20112.76m
20122.89m
20133.28m
20143.77m
20154.00m
20164.93m
20175.70m
20186.07m
20196.28m
20201.07m
202151
20222.16m
20235.27m
20246.33m
20256.95m
Direct foreign arrivals to Bali, 2010 to 2025. Arrivals fell to 51 in 2021 and passed the 2019 level in 2024. (BPS via Bali Tourism Office, Apr 2026)

Arrivals count visits by foreign tourists entering Bali directly, through Ngurah Rai airport or a sea port, so a person who visits twice counts twice. Foreigners who enter Indonesia elsewhere, such as Jakarta, and travel on to Bali are not counted. The 2025 figures are provisional. Other official statements give a higher 2025 total from a different count; this page uses the statistics agency's series throughout. Early years may have been collected differently, so the long-run series is a guide only.

Where do Bali's foreign visitors come from?

Australia sends far more visitors than any other country, close to three times as many as India in second place. China, South Korea and Russia grew fastest among the large markets in 2025.

  1. 1 Australia 1.63m
  2. 2 India 0.57m
  3. 3 China 0.54m
  4. 4 South Korea 0.35m
  5. 5 United Kingdom 0.32m
  6. 6 France 0.28m
  7. 7 United States 0.27m
  8. 8 Malaysia 0.25m
  9. 9 Singapore 0.21m
  10. 10 Japan 0.21m
Bali's ten largest foreign markets by direct arrivals in 2025, by nationality. (BPS via Bali Tourism Office, Apr 2026)

Markets are counted by nationality (passport), not country of residence. The regional groups are the statistics agency's own; Turkey is counted in the Middle East. The Middle East growth rate is our calculation.

How is Bali tourism doing in 2026?

Foreign arrivals in 2026 are running slightly below 2025, the first year-to-date fall since the reopening. Australia and China are growing, while India, South Korea and several European markets have fallen.

502k Jan 492k Feb 472k Mar 553k Apr 578k May 605k Jun 698k Jul 686k Aug
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Direct foreign arrivals to Bali by month, January to August 2026.
PeriodValue
Jan502k
Feb492k
Mar472k
Apr553k
May578k
Jun605k
Jul698k
Aug686k
Direct foreign arrivals to Bali by month, January to August 2026. (BPS via Bali Tourism Office (2026 release), Oct 2026)

Figures for 2026 are provisional monthly counts to August, the latest released. Changes are against the same months of 2025. The projection is the tourism office's planning figure, not a forecast by the statistics agency.

How many Indonesian tourists visit Bali?

Indonesians make more tourist trips to Bali than foreigners do. Unlike foreign arrivals, domestic trips have not regained their 2019 peak, though they are up in 2026.

10.55m 2019 4.60m 2020 4.30m 2021 8.05m 2022 9.88m 2023 10.12m 2024 9.61m 2025
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Estimated domestic tourist trips to Bali, 2019 to 2025, still below the 2019 peak.
PeriodValue
201910.55m
20204.60m
20214.30m
20228.05m
20239.88m
202410.12m
20259.61m
Estimated domestic tourist trips to Bali, 2019 to 2025, still below the 2019 peak. (Bali Tourism Office (2026 release), Oct 2026)

Domestic trips are the tourism office's estimate from passenger movements through Ngurah Rai airport and the Gilimanuk and Padangbai ports, not a survey of travellers and not a statistics agency figure. A footnote to the 2026 release describes the January 2026 figure as all domestic tourists through those three entry points, which may mean the method changed in 2026, so compare 2026 with earlier years with care. The statistics agency's household-survey count of domestic trips is a different measure.

How does Bali compare with the rest of Indonesia?

Bali is Indonesia's main gateway for foreign tourists. Nearly half of all foreign visits to the country now come in through Bali, a larger share than before the pandemic.

  1. 1 Ngurah Rai (Bali) 6.91m
  2. 2 Soekarno-Hatta (Jakarta) 2.76m
  3. 3 All other airports 1.10m
Foreign arrivals to Indonesia by air in 2025, by airport of entry. Bali's airport takes almost two thirds. (Ministry of Tourism via Bali Tourism Office, Apr 2026)
  • Indonesia as a whole received 15,386,646 foreign tourist visits in 2025, up 10.80% on 13,886,678 in 2024. (Ministry of Tourism, Feb 2026)
  • Bali's share of national foreign arrivals was 38.96% in 2019. (Bali Tourism Office (statistics book), Apr 2026)
  • Ngurah Rai airport handled about 64% of Indonesia's 10,771,988 foreign arrivals by air in 2025, almost 2.5 times as many as Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta airport, with 2,760,838. (Ministry of Tourism via Bali Tourism Office, Apr 2026)
  • In December 2025 Ngurah Rai was the country's busiest entry point, with 558,790 foreign arrivals, against 230,381 at Soekarno-Hatta and 193,464 at Batam. (Ministry of Tourism, Feb 2026)
  • Across Indonesia, foreign visitors spent an average of US$1,267.07 per visit in 2025, down from US$1,391.85 in 2024. (Ministry of Tourism, Feb 2026)
  • Foreign visitors leaving Indonesia in December 2025 had stayed an average of 9.42 nights in the country. (Ministry of Tourism, Feb 2026)

National figures are the Ministry of Tourism's provisional counts at all entry points and are given as context; they are not Bali figures. Bali's share compares direct arrivals to Bali with that national total. The 64% share, the 2.5 times comparison and the other-airports figure in the chart are our calculations. National spend is per visit for the whole trip and cannot be compared with Bali's daily spend.

How much do tourists spend in Bali, and how long do they stay?

Foreign tourists spent more per day in 2025 than in any earlier survey year shown. The survey was not run from 2020 to 2024, and the figures are not adjusted for inflation.

$147.40 2010 $143.92 2015 $118.98 2017 $142.00 2018 $145.15 2019 $172.40 2025
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Average daily spend per foreign tourist in Bali, in US dollars at current prices. No survey was held from 2020 to 2024.
PeriodValue
2010$147.40
2015$143.92
2017$118.98
2018$142.00
2019$145.15
2025$172.40
Average daily spend per foreign tourist in Bali, in US dollars at current prices. No survey was held from 2020 to 2024. (Bali Tourism Office (statistics book), Apr 2026)

Daily spend comes from the tourism office's own survey, run with Udayana University, and is in US dollars at current prices. The length-of-stay measure changed in 2020: up to 2019 it recorded whole trips, and later figures look like hotel stays, so no figure from before 2020 is compared with one after. Planning figures are targets, not results.

How much does Bali's tourist levy raise?

Every foreign visitor to Bali is meant to pay a one-off levy, but most do not. About a third paid in 2025, and the share has risen in 2026.

Levy figures are the provincial government's own and have not been independently audited. The 2024 total covers 14 February to 31 December. Payment rates compare payers with foreign arrivals, and some groups are exempt, so the true rate may be a little higher. No government total for 2026 collections had been published when this page was reviewed.

What is tourism worth to Bali's economy?

Tourism is the base of Bali's economy. Accommodation and food services is the largest single sector and grew faster than the economy as a whole in 2025, though growth slowed in 2026.

19.9% 2023 21.4% 2024 22.3% 2025
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Accommodation and food services as a share of Bali's economy at current prices, 2023 to 2025.
PeriodValue
202319.9%
202421.4%
202522.3%
Accommodation and food services as a share of Bali's economy at current prices, 2023 to 2025. (BPS via Bank Indonesia, Mar 2026)
  • The sector grew 10.25% in real terms in 2025, against 5.82% for the whole Bali economy. (BPS via Bank Indonesia, Mar 2026)
  • Its share of the economy rose from about 19.9% in 2023 to 21.4% in 2024, on our calculation at current prices. (BPS via Bank Indonesia, Mar 2026)
  • About 403,000 people worked in accommodation and food services in November 2025, 15.1% of Bali's 2.67 million workers. (BPS via Bank Indonesia, Mar 2026)
  • Jobs in the sector had fallen to 220,000 in February 2021, during the pandemic. (BPS via Bank Indonesia, Mar 2026)
  • Growth in the sector slowed to 3.68% in the second quarter of 2026, from 6.52% in the first, below the 5.78% of the wider economy. (BPS via Bank Indonesia, Sep 2026)
  • In the first half of 2026 the sector made up about 21.5% of Bali's economy at current prices. (BPS via Bank Indonesia, Sep 2026)
  • Bali's economy grew 5.48% in 2024, and its 2025 growth was above Indonesia's 5.11%. (Bali Provincial Government, Mar 2026)
  • The provincial government estimates that Bali earned about IDR 176 trillion of Indonesia's IDR 319.9 trillion in tourism foreign exchange in 2025, about 55%. (Bali Provincial Government, Aug 2026)

Sector figures are the statistics agency's, published by Bank Indonesia. Accommodation and food services counts direct output only; transport, shops and other businesses that serve tourists sit in other sectors, so tourism's full share is larger. Shares are our calculations from the current-price tables. Half-year shares are seasonal and should not be compared with full years. The foreign-exchange figure is a provincial government estimate whose method is not published.

How full are Bali's hotels?

Bali's star-rated hotels were about three fifths full in 2025, a little below 2024 and below the 2018 peak. Guests stay under three nights on average.

61.7% 2016 62.9% 2017 65.1% 2018 59.6% 2019 15.6% 2020 13.0% 2021 54.6% 2022 53.1% 2023 62.2% 2024 60.6% 2025
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Average room occupancy at Bali's star-rated hotels, 2016 to 2025.
PeriodValue
201661.7%
201762.9%
201865.1%
201959.6%
202015.6%
202113.0%
202254.6%
202353.1%
202462.2%
202560.6%
Average room occupancy at Bali's star-rated hotels, 2016 to 2025. (BPS via Bali Tourism Office, Apr 2026)

Occupancy is the share of rooms sold at star-rated (classified) hotels unless stated. The 2026 averages cover eight months and are not comparable with full years. Length of stay counts nights per hotel stay by all guests, foreign and domestic, not the length of a whole trip. Monthly figures are provisional and may be revised.

How many hotels, villas and homestays does Bali have?

Licensed villas outnumber star-rated hotels in Bali by more than four to one. Most places to stay are in Badung, the regency that covers Kuta, Seminyak and Canggu.

  • Star-rated hotel 47%
  • Villa 27.2%
  • Homestay 12.3%
  • Non-star hotel 6.5%
  • Family or friends 3.3%
  • Apartment 1.2%
Where foreign visitors stayed in Bali, from the 2025 exit survey. (Bali Tourism Office (exit survey), Nov 2025)

Business counts come from the tourism office's licensing registry, counted at December 2025, not from a survey. The registry changed in recent years and counts jumped as a result, so 2025 figures are not compared with earlier years and no growth is implied. Villas are licensed under a separate code and are outside the official accommodation total; unlicensed villas and private lets are not counted at all. Room numbers are left out because the office's two 2023 room totals do not agree and later years have none. The where-they-stay split is from a survey of 600 departing visitors and is a guide only.

How many tourism businesses and guides does Bali have?

Bali has more than 10,000 registered restaurants and over 13,000 licensed tour guides. Badung, the main resort area, has most of the bars, restaurants and water-sport firms.

  1. 1 English 4,150
  2. 2 Japanese 2,575
  3. 3 Mandarin 2,216
  4. 4 Korean 1,198
  5. 5 Indonesian 1,042
Licensed tour guides in Bali by language, 2025. (Bali Tourism Office (statistics book), Apr 2026)

Counts are licensed or registered businesses from the tourism office's registry and directory. Several counts, including travel agents and bars, jumped after the registry changed, so they are not compared over time. Guides are counted by licensed language.

What are Bali's most visited attractions?

Temples top the list for foreign visitors, led by Uluwatu on the southern Bukit peninsula. Pandawa Beach draws the most Indonesian visitors of any listed site.

  1. 1 Uluwatu temple 1.34m
  2. 2 Tirta Empul 849k
  3. 3 Ubud Monkey Forest 822k
  4. 4 Tanah Lot 674k
  5. 5 Pandawa Beach 455k
  6. 6 Tegenungan Waterfall 353k
  7. 7 Ulun Danu Beratan 271k
  8. 8 Jatiluwih 212k
  9. 9 Goa Gajah 208k
  10. 10 Lempuyang 194k
Foreign visits at selected Bali attractions in 2025. (Bali Tourism Office (statistics book), Apr 2026)

Counts are ticketed or recorded visits at managed sites, reported by the regencies, so one person visiting five sites counts five times. Several sites and regencies reported much lower numbers in 2025, which may reflect incomplete reporting, so levels are given and falls are not. Beaches and areas without a managed entry, such as Kuta and Seminyak, are not counted. Some sites in Bangli, Klungkung and Karangasem are left out because their tables cannot be read reliably by year.

How do visitors get to Bali?

Almost every foreign tourist flies in, through Ngurah Rai airport near Kuta. Arrivals on international flights grew in 2025, while arrivals on domestic flights fell.

2.92m 2020 1.88m 2021 6.34m 2022 10.66m 2023 11.88m 2024 11.96m 2025
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Passengers arriving at Ngurah Rai airport, 2020 to 2025.
PeriodValue
20202.92m
20211.88m
20226.34m
202310.66m
202411.88m
202511.96m
Passengers arriving at Ngurah Rai airport, 2020 to 2025. (Angkasa Pura via Bali Tourism Office, Apr 2026)

Airport figures count arriving passengers only, including Indonesian residents, not tourists alone; totals that add departures are about twice as high and are not used here. Ferry figures count all passengers, including residents and workers. The international-flight growth rate and the sea share are our calculations.

When is the best time to visit Bali?

Bali is warm all year, with under 2°C between the coolest and warmest months, so crowds shape the seasons more than heat. July and August are the coolest and busiest months; February is the quietest for foreign arrivals.

530k Jan 451k Feb 471k Mar 591k Apr 602k May 638k Jun 697k Jul 683k Aug 635k Sep 595k Oct 483k Nov 573k Dec
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Direct foreign arrivals to Bali by month in 2025, peaking in July and August.
PeriodValue
Jan530k
Feb451k
Mar471k
Apr591k
May602k
Jun638k
Jul697k
Aug683k
Sep635k
Oct595k
Nov483k
Dec573k
Direct foreign arrivals to Bali by month in 2025, peaking in July and August. (BPS via Bali Tourism Office (2025 tables), Apr 2026)
  • July took 10.03% of 2025 foreign arrivals, with 697,107, and February the fewest, with 450,697. (BPS via Bali Tourism Office, Apr 2026)
  • Markets peak at different times: Australian arrivals peaked in July 2025 (161,051), Indian in May (67,995), South Korean in July (38,275) and Japanese in August (30,539). (BPS via Bali Tourism Office, Apr 2026)
  • The average daily temperature at Ngurah Rai airport is 27.3°C over the year, from 26.1°C in August, the coolest month, to 28.0°C in November, the warmest. (BMKG, 1991-2020)
  • Inland Denpasar is a little warmer, averaging 28.1°C, from 26.8°C in August to 28.9°C in November. (BMKG, 1991-2020)

Temperatures are 1991-2020 averages from Indonesia's weather agency, BMKG, as submitted to the World Meteorological Organization. No official monthly rainfall average was available, so rain is not shown. Indonesian holidays, which move with the Islamic calendar, shift the domestic peak from year to year.

How safe and clean do visitors find Bali?

Most foreign visitors feel safe in Bali and rate its people highly. Traffic and cleanliness get the lowest marks, and most of Bali's waste still goes to open dumps.

  • Very safe 25.0%
  • Safe 51.2%
  • Fairly safe 19.5%
  • Less safe 4%
  • Very unsafe 0.3%
How safe foreign visitors felt in Bali, from the 2025 exit survey. (Bali Tourism Office (exit survey), Nov 2025)

Ratings come from the tourism office's exit survey of 600 foreign visitors at the airport, chosen by convenience, not at random, so they are a guide only. They measure how safe people felt, not recorded crime. Waste figures are the environment ministry's 2026 data update and cover all household-type waste, not tourism alone. Properly managed is the ministry's performance definition: waste handled to standard, not open-dumped.

Glossary

BPS
Badan Pusat Statistik, Indonesia's national statistics agency, which counts foreign arrivals and hotel occupancy and measures the economy.
Bali Tourism Office
Dinas Pariwisata Provinsi Bali, the provincial tourism office, which publishes the annual tourism statistics book, monthly releases, the business directory and the exit survey.
Ministry of Tourism
Indonesia's national tourism ministry (Kementerian Pariwisata), which publishes national foreign arrival and spending figures.
Direct foreign arrival
A foreign tourist entering Bali from abroad through its airport or a sea port, counted each time they enter. Foreigners who enter Indonesia elsewhere first are not included.
Domestic trip
A trip to Bali by an Indonesian tourist (wisatawan nusantara), estimated by the tourism office from passenger movements.
GRDP
Gross regional domestic product, the size of a province's economy.
PWA
Pungutan Wisatawan Asing, Bali's levy on foreign tourists.
Regency
A district of Bali (kabupaten). Bali has eight regencies and one city, Denpasar.
Pondok wisata
A licensed homestay, usually rooms in a family compound.
BMKG
Indonesia's meteorology, climatology and geophysics agency.
Angkasa Pura
The state company that operates Ngurah Rai airport.
SIPSN
The national waste management information system run by the environment ministry.

Methodology and sources

Figures come from Indonesia's official producers: the statistics agency (BPS) for foreign arrivals, hotel occupancy and the economy; the Bali Tourism Office for domestic trips, spending, the business registry, attractions and its exit survey; the Ministry of Tourism for national totals; Bank Indonesia for the published economic tables; the provincial government for the tourist levy; the airport operator and transport office for passenger counts; the weather agency for climate; and the environment ministry for waste. The statistics agency's website could not be reached, so its Bali series are cited through the tourism office publications that reprint them, labelled by publication. National arrivals come from the Ministry of Tourism throughout. Each figure links to the document that carries it, with the date. Where a series changed method, such as length of stay in 2020 and the business registry, figures are not compared across the break. Where we calculated a figure, such as a share or growth rate, the text or note says so. The page is reviewed monthly and the date is shown at the top.