137 Cuba Tourism Statistics for 2026

How many tourists visit Cuba each year?

Fewer each year since 2023. Visitor arrivals recovered after the pandemic until 2023 and have fallen since. ONEI counts travellers and visitors separately: travellers include Cuban residents coming home, so only the visitor count measures tourism.

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International visitors to Cuba, 2020 to 2024, in millions, from the 2024 yearbook. Returning Cuban residents are not included.

Period	Value
2020	1.09m
2021	0.36m
2022	1.61m
2023	2.44m
2024	2.20m

• Cuba received 392,454 fewer international visitors in 2025 than in 2024. (ONEI (arrivals, Dec 2025), Jan 2026)
• 2,604,092 travellers of all kinds entered Cuba in 2025, 86.6% of the 2024 figure. Travellers include Cuban residents returning from abroad. (ONEI (arrivals, Dec 2025), Jan 2026)
• Of the 3,008,713 travellers who entered Cuba in 2024, 1,908,301 were foreigners, 805,596 Cuban residents returning home and 294,816 Cubans living abroad. (ONEI (yearbook 2024, tourism), Aug 2025)
• International visitors numbered 1,085,920 in 2020 and 356,470 in 2021, the low point of the pandemic. (ONEI (yearbook 2024, tourism), Aug 2025)
• Arrivals recovered to 1,614,087 in 2022 and 2,436,980 in 2023, then fell to 2,203,117 in 2024. (ONEI (yearbook 2024, tourism), Aug 2025)
• 94.9% of 2025 visitors (1,717,755) came for leisure, recreation and holidays, and 23,200 for business and professional reasons. (ONEI (tourism indicators 2025), Mar 2026)
• Visitors aged 45 to 59 were the largest age group in 2025 (551,066), ahead of those aged 25 to 44 (520,201) and 60 and over (460,025). 918,024 were men and 892,639 women. (ONEI (tourism indicators 2025), Mar 2026)

Visitors (visitantes) are non-residents staying less than a year, including Cubans who live abroad. Travellers (viajeros) are everyone entering the country. Both come from immigration records, so they count border arrivals, not hotel guests. Visitors in 2024 equal foreigners plus Cubans living abroad. The 2025 figures are ONEI's year-end release and may be revised in the yearbook. Trip purpose is declared at the border. Shares are our calculations.

When did Cuba receive the most tourists?

In 2018. Arrivals rose every year from 2010 to 2018 and passed four million for the first time in 2016. They fell in 2019, before the pandemic, and the 2025 total was less than two-fifths of the peak.

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International visitors to Cuba, 2014 to 2019, in millions, from the 2019 yearbook.

Period	Value
2014	3.01m
2015	3.54m
2016	4.01m
2017	4.65m
2018	4.71m
2019	4.28m

• International visitors rose from 2,531,745 in 2010 to 2,716,317 in 2011, 2,838,607 in 2012 and 2,852,572 in 2013. (ONEI (yearbook 2015), 2016)
• Cuba received 3,013,584 international visitors in 2014 and 3,540,175 in 2015. (ONEI (yearbook 2019, tourism), 2020)
• Arrivals reached 4,009,169 in 2016 and 4,653,559 in 2017. (ONEI (yearbook 2019, tourism), 2020)
• In 2019 Cuba received 4,275,558 international visitors, 9.3% fewer than in 2018. (ONEI (yearbook 2019, tourism), 2020)
• Cuba reached four million international visitors on 10 November 2018, four days later in the year than in 2017, the Ministry of Tourism said. (MINTUR, Nov 2018)

Each span of years comes from its own yearbook: 2010-2013 from the 2015 edition and 2014-2019 from the 2019 edition. The 2019 edition revised 2014 and 2015 up by about 0.4%, and we use the later figures. The peak is the highest year in the ONEI series from 2010 that we checked. The fall in 2019 and the share of the peak are our calculations.

How many tourists has Cuba received in 2026?

Far fewer than in 2025. January was only a little below January 2025, but from March each month brought around 30,000 visitors, against more than 100,000 in every month of 2025. Canadian arrivals almost stopped after the first quarter. ONEI's releases give no reason for the fall.

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International visitors to Cuba by month, January to September 2026, in thousands. Preliminary figures.

Period	Value
Jan	185k
Feb	78k
Mar	36k
Apr	31k
May	31k
Jun	28k
Jul	32k
Aug	30k
Sep	27k

• 970,382 travellers of all kinds entered Cuba in January to September 2026, 49.5% of the same months of 2025. (ONEI (arrivals, Sep 2026), Oct 2026)
• January 2026 brought 184,833 international visitors and February 77,663. Arrivals were 35,561 in March and 27,354 in September. (ONEI (arrivals, Sep 2026), Oct 2026)
• Canada sent 129,247 visitors in January to September 2026, 23.1% of the 559,707 a year earlier. Cubans living abroad made 117,386 visits, 66.1% of the 2025 level. (ONEI (arrivals, Sep 2026), Oct 2026)
• Visitors from the United States numbered 45,895 in January to September 2026 (51.6% of the same months of 2025), Mexico 24,369 (55.9%) and Russia 21,715 (24.4%). (ONEI (arrivals, Sep 2026), Oct 2026)
• Argentina sent 15,260 visitors (40.1%), Spain 11,182 (30.4%), Colombia 10,672 (40.6%), China 10,238 (57.0%) and Italy 9,278 (38.3%). (ONEI (arrivals, Sep 2026), Oct 2026)
• In January to March 2026 Cuba received 298,057 visitors, 52.0% of the first quarter of 2025. Canada sent 124,794 of them, almost all of its nine-month total. (ONEI (tourism indicators Q1 2026), Jun 2026)
• Only 512 Canadians arrived in March 2026, against 98,714 in March 2025. Cubans living abroad made 11,256 visits that month and US visitors 5,243. (ONEI (tourism indicators Q1 2026), Jun 2026)

All 2026 figures are preliminary. Monthly figures are from ONEI's September 2026 release, which revised the March figure slightly from its first-quarter report; we use the later figure. The country breakdown for March and the first quarter is from the first-quarter report. ONEI states no cause for the fall, and we give none. Shares of the 2025 level are ONEI's; the Canada comparison is our calculation.

Where do Cuba's visitors come from?

Canada, by a long way. It sent more than three times as many visitors in 2025 as the next group, Cubans living abroad. Russia was third and the United States fourth. Argentina and Colombia were the only two of the ten largest markets to grow.

1. 1 Canada 754k
2. 2 Cubans living abroad 228k
3. 3 Russia 132k
4. 4 United States 110k
5. 5 Mexico 56k
6. 6 Argentina 49k
7. 7 Spain 46k
8. 8 France 37k
9. 9 Colombia 35k
10. 10 Germany 33k

• Canadian visitors were 12.4% fewer in 2025 than the 860,877 of 2024. (ONEI (arrivals, Dec 2025), Jan 2026)
• Russia sent 131,882 visitors in 2025, 71.0% of its 2024 total of 185,816. (ONEI (arrivals, Dec 2025), Jan 2026)
• Visitors from the United States numbered 110,005 in 2025, against 142,450 in 2024. (ONEI (arrivals, Dec 2025), Jan 2026)
• Mexico sent 56,438 visitors in 2025 (89.8% of 2024), Argentina 49,428 (113.6%) and Colombia 35,202 (108.0%). (ONEI (arrivals, Dec 2025), Jan 2026)
• Spain sent 46,489 visitors in 2025 (71.5% of 2024), France 36,884 (74.0%) and Germany 33,056 (50.5%). (ONEI (arrivals, Dec 2025), Jan 2026)
• Italy sent 31,676 visitors in 2025, Portugal 29,942 and China 27,415 (102.4% of 2024). The UK, which ONEI labels England, fell to 13,216, 48.6% of 2024. (ONEI (visitors by country 2025), Jan 2026)
• By region, the Americas sent 1,323,876 visitors in 2025, about 73% of the total, and Europe 404,849, about 22%. Asia sent 71,134, Africa 9,243 and Oceania 1,548. (ONEI (tourism indicators 2025), Mar 2026)
• Visitors from South America rose 3.2% in 2025, while those from Europe fell 31.1%. (ONEI (tourism indicators 2025), Mar 2026)

Markets are ONEI's own categories, with Cubans living abroad counted as a separate group. US visitors therefore leave out Cuban Americans, who are counted with Cubans living abroad. ONEI labels the UK row England (Inglaterra) and lists Northern Ireland separately. The Americas total includes Cubans living abroad. Regional shares and the Canada comparison are our calculations.

How have Cuba's main markets changed since 2019?

Most have shrunk sharply. Canada has been the largest market in every year shown except 2021, but sent about a third fewer visitors in 2025 than in 2019. European markets have fallen furthest: UK arrivals in 2025 were about a ninth of the 2019 level. US arrivals rose fast from 2015 to 2018 and are now far smaller.

1. 1 Canada 1.12m
2. 2 Cubans living abroad 624k
3. 3 United States 499k
4. 4 Russia 178k
5. 5 Germany 175k
6. 6 France 169k
7. 7 Spain 146k
8. 8 Italy 133k
9. 9 UK (England) 124k

• In 2010 Canada sent 945,248 visitors and the United States 63,046. (ONEI (yearbook 2015), 2016)
• Canadian visitors peaked at 1,300,405 in 2015 and were 1,120,077 in 2019. (ONEI (yearbook 2019, tourism), 2020)
• Canada sent 413,409 visitors in 2020 and 68,944 in 2021, then 532,487 in 2022 and 936,436 in 2023. (ONEI (yearbook 2024, tourism), Aug 2025)
• US visitors rose from 162,972 in 2015 to 284,552 in 2016, 618,346 in 2017 and a peak of 638,365 in 2018, then fell to 498,538 in 2019. (ONEI (yearbook 2019, tourism), 2020)
• US visitors numbered 58,147 in 2020 and 7,039 in 2021, then 100,494 in 2022 and 159,032 in 2023. (ONEI (yearbook 2024, tourism), Aug 2025)
• Russia sent 227,829 visitors in 2017, its highest in the 2019 yearbook, and 177,977 in 2019. (ONEI (yearbook 2019, tourism), 2020)
• In 2021 Russia was Cuba's largest market, with 146,151 visitors. Russian arrivals were 54,383 in 2022 and 184,819 in 2023. (ONEI (yearbook 2024, tourism), Aug 2025)
• In 2019 Germany sent 174,956 visitors, France 169,394, Spain 146,339, Italy 133,436 and the UK (England) 123,745. (ONEI (yearbook 2019, tourism), 2020)

Each period comes from its own yearbook: 2010 from the 2015 edition, 2014-2019 from the 2019 edition and 2020-2023 from the 2024 edition. Editions revise some years slightly, for example Canada in 2015. US visitors are US nationals as counted by ONEI. Comparisons with 2019 are our calculations. These figures do not say why markets changed.

How many visitors are Cubans who live abroad?

About one visitor in eight in 2025. Cubans living abroad are the second-largest group after Canadians, and most of them travel from the United States. Their visits peaked in 2019 and have fallen in each year since 2023.

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Visits to Cuba by Cubans living abroad, 2020 to 2024, in thousands, from the 2024 yearbook.

Period	Value
2020	150k
2021	53k
2022	333k
2023	358k
2024	295k

• Cubans living abroad made 228,091 visits in 2025, 77.4% of the 2024 level. (ONEI (arrivals, Dec 2025), Jan 2026)
• 197,270 of those visits, 86%, started in the United States, and 4,542 in Canada. (ONEI (tourism indicators 2025), Mar 2026)
• Visits by Cubans living abroad numbered 375,431 in 2010. (ONEI (yearbook 2015), 2016)
• They rose from 390,111 in 2015 to a peak of 623,972 in 2019. (ONEI (yearbook 2019, tourism), 2020)
• They fell to 150,388 in 2020 and 52,804 in 2021, and recovered to 333,191 in 2022 and 358,481 in 2023. (ONEI (yearbook 2024, tourism), Aug 2025)

ONEI counts Cubans living abroad (Comunidad cubana en el exterior) as visitors, since they are not resident in Cuba. They are a separate group from the country markets, so they overlap with residents of the US, Spain and other countries. The US and Canada figures are the country where the trip started (country of embarkation), not where the visitor lives. Shares are our calculations.

When is the best time to visit Cuba, and when do hurricanes hit?

Winter and spring are the high season. Visitors come most from December to March, the drier months, and least in September, at the height of the hurricane season. October is the month in which the most hurricanes have struck Cuba since 1791.

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International visitors to Cuba by month, 2025, in thousands.

Period	Value
Jan	196k
Feb	179k
Mar	198k
Apr	170k
May	122k
Jun	120k
Jul	143k
Aug	136k
Sep	104k
Oct	110k
Nov	152k
Dec	181k

• In 2025 March was the busiest month (198,225 visitors), ahead of January (196,345) and December (180,944). September was the quietest, with 103,515. (ONEI (tourism indicators 2025), Mar 2026)
• The months of December to April brought 923,934 visitors in 2025, 51% of the year's total, and August to October 349,315, or 19%. (ONEI (tourism indicators 2025), Mar 2026)
• In 2024 arrivals peaked at 281,025 in March and were lowest in September, at 111,141. (ONEI (tourism indicators 2025), Mar 2026)
• In 2019, the last year before the pandemic, March brought 521,422 visitors and September 201,321. (ONEI (yearbook 2019, tourism), 2020)
• Havana's Casablanca weather station recorded average daily highs of 30.2°C and lows of 22.1°C in 2024, with 1,336.7 mm of rain on 114 days. (ONEI (yearbook 2024, environment), Oct 2025)
• Varadero recorded average highs of 29.7°C and lows of 24.2°C in 2024, with 1,020.0 mm of rain on 122 days. (ONEI (yearbook 2024, environment), Oct 2025)
• Santiago de Cuba was hotter and drier in 2024, with highs of 32.7°C, lows of 24.1°C and 947.1 mm of rain on 108 days. (ONEI (yearbook 2024, environment), Oct 2025)
• Trinidad recorded average highs of 30.7°C in 2024 and 1,225.7 mm of rain on 104 days. (ONEI (yearbook 2024, environment), Oct 2025)
• Rain gauges across Cuba averaged 237.0 mm in June 2024, 189.4 mm in August and 196.8 mm in September, against 28.0 mm in January and 32.1 mm in April. (ONEI (yearbook 2024, environment), Oct 2025)
• Havana province had 280.0 mm of rain in June 2024 and 6.2 mm in April. (ONEI (yearbook 2024, environment), Oct 2025)
• The Atlantic hurricane season runs from 1 June to 30 November and peaks on 10 September. (NOAA National Hurricane Center, 1991-2020)
• Of the hurricanes that struck Cuba from 1791 to 2024, 45 hit in October, 38 in September and 20 in August, against 6 in June and 3 in July. (ONEI (yearbook 2024, environment), Oct 2025)
• Western Cuba, from Pinar del Río to Matanzas and including Havana and Varadero, has been struck by 85 of them, the centre of the island by 56 and the east by 55. (ONEI (yearbook 2024, environment), Oct 2025)
• Hurricanes Oscar (October 2024) and Rafael (November 2024) caused 12,846.0 million pesos of economic losses and damaged 40,587 homes. Hurricane Ian in September 2022 caused 22,187.5 million pesos of losses. (ONEI (yearbook 2024, environment), Oct 2025)

Weather figures are one year's observations (2024), not long-term averages, which could not be reached. Station figures are from the Institute of Meteorology (INSMET) and rainfall by month from the national water institute (INRH), both published by ONEI; the two networks give different national totals, so they are not mixed. Hurricane counts are for Cuba and change when past storms are recategorised. Regions overlap because one storm can strike several. Losses are in Cuban pesos, for the whole economy. The season dates are for the whole Atlantic basin. Seasonal shares are our calculations.

How much does tourism earn Cuba?

Less than two-fifths of what it earned at its peak. Revenue from international visitors peaked in 2017 and fell in 2018, 2019 and again in 2024. ONEI changed the unit from convertible pesos to US dollars after the 2021 currency reform, and its 2025 figure is in Cuban pesos for state entities only.

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International tourism revenues, 2014 to 2019, in billion convertible pesos (CUC), from the 2019 yearbook. Later years are in US dollars and are not charted with these.

Period	Value
2014	2.55bn
2015	2.82bn
2016	3.07bn
2017	3.30bn
2018	2.78bn
2019	2.65bn

• International tourism revenues were 2,218.4 million CUC in 2010 and 2,607.8 million CUC in 2013. (ONEI (yearbook 2015), 2016)
• Revenues rose from 2,546.1 million CUC in 2014 to 2,818.6 million in 2015 and 3,068.6 million in 2016, then fell to 2,782.2 million in 2018 and 2,645.1 million in 2019. (ONEI (yearbook 2019, tourism), 2020)
• In US dollars, revenues were 1,152.4 million in 2020, 416.9 million in 2021, 1,049.5 million in 2022 and 1,308.3 million in 2023. (ONEI (yearbook 2024, tourism), Aug 2025)
• Of the 2024 total, USD 1,250.9 million was tourism revenue and USD 41.8 million international transport paid to Cuban carriers. (ONEI (yearbook 2024, tourism), Aug 2025)
• Private businesses earned an estimated USD 245.5 million of tourism revenue in 2024, 19.6% of it. (ONEI (yearbook 2024, tourism), Aug 2025)
• In 2017 private businesses earned an estimated 706.6 million CUC, 22.2% of tourism revenue. (ONEI (yearbook 2019, tourism), 2020)
• Revenue per international visitor was about USD 587 in 2024, our calculation from ONEI's revenue and visitor totals. (ONEI (yearbook 2024, tourism), Aug 2025)
• Cuba's state tourism entities earned 109.4 billion Cuban pesos (CUP) from international tourism in 2025, 90.7% of the 2024 figure. (ONEI (tourism indicators 2025), Mar 2026)
• Their revenue from international tourism was 20.1 billion pesos (CUP) in January to March 2026, 57.6% of the first quarter of 2025. (ONEI (tourism indicators Q1 2026), Jun 2026)

ONEI's revenue measure is spending in Cuba by international visitors, including international transport paid to Cuban carriers and an estimate for private businesses. The unit changed: to 2019 it is convertible pesos (CUC), at par with the dollar in state accounts, and for 2020-2024 the 2024 yearbook gives US dollars at each year's official exchange rate. The 2025 and 2026 figures are revenue of state tourism entities in Cuban pesos (CUP), a different measure that leaves out private businesses and cannot be converted at a single rate. The private-sector figures are modelled estimates. Shares, the comparison with the peak and the per-visitor figure are our calculations; visitors include Cubans living abroad.

What is tourism worth to the Cuban economy, and how many people work in it?

It is a large earner of foreign currency but not Cuba's largest services export: personal, cultural and recreational services, mostly professional services provided abroad, earn about four times as much. Hotels and restaurants grew in real terms in 2024 while the economy shrank, and the industry employed more people in 2023 than in 2019.

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Travel exports in Cuba's balance of payments, 2020 to 2024, in million US dollars.

Period	Value
2020	1,290m
2021	478m
2022	1,153m
2023	1,318m
2024	1,316m

• Travel made up 16.9% of Cuba's USD 7,768.4 million services exports in 2024, and 13.8% of all exports of goods and services. (ONEI (yearbook 2024, external sector), Oct 2025)
• Travel exports were USD 1,290.3 million in 2020, 477.8 million in 2021, 1,153.1 million in 2022 and 1,317.8 million in 2023. (ONEI (yearbook 2024, external sector), Oct 2025)
• Hotels and restaurants produced 98,531 million pesos of value added in 2024, out of a GDP of 1,084,738 million pesos at current prices. (ONEI (yearbook 2024, national accounts), Sep 2025)
• Their share of GDP at current prices was 8.0% in 2023 and 3.7% in 2020. (ONEI (yearbook 2024, national accounts), Sep 2025)
• In real terms hotels and restaurants grew 5.3% in 2024 while GDP shrank 1.1%. The industry grew 23.8% in 2022 and 13.1% in 2023, after falling 24.5% in 2020. (ONEI (yearbook 2024, national accounts), Sep 2025)
• Hotels and restaurants employed 267,200 people in 2019. Total employment fell to 4.31 million by 2023, and 114,100 of the industry's 2023 workers were women. (ONEI (yearbook 2023), Dec 2024)
• Average monthly pay in state and mixed hotels and restaurants was 4,564 pesos in 2023, against 4,648 across all sectors. In 2019 it was the lowest of any sector, at 529 pesos against an average of 879. (ONEI (yearbook 2023), Dec 2024)

Hotels and restaurants is an industry in the national accounts. It includes restaurants serving residents and leaves out tourist transport and shopping, so it is not tourism's share of GDP. Current-price figures are distorted by the 2021 currency unification and high inflation; the 2024 yearbook revised the 2023 figure up from the previous edition, and we use the later one. Travel exports are the balance-of-payments measure and differ slightly from the revenue figures in the tourism chapter. Employment counts people whose main job is in hotels and restaurants, not tourism jobs as such. Pay covers state and mixed entities, leaves out tips and the private sector, and is in nominal pesos. Shares and the export comparison are our calculations.

How many hotels and rooms does Cuba have?

More each year. The state accommodation stock grew by about 13,000 rooms from 2020 to 2024, mostly in five-star hotels, which now hold almost half of all rooms. Private home rentals are not in these counts, but ONEI estimates they take about a quarter of foreign tourists' nights.

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Rooms in Cuban state accommodation, 2020 to 2024, in thousands. Private rentals are not included.

Period	Value
2020	75.7k
2021	81.4k
2022	84.6k
2023	86.6k
2024	89.2k

• Cuba had 544 accommodation establishments in 2024, level with 2023 and up from 483 in 2020. 344 were hotels, 86 of them five-star. (ONEI (yearbook 2024, tourism), Aug 2025)
• Five-star hotels held 42,984 rooms in 2024, up from 32,298 in 2020. Four-star rooms fell to 21,467. (ONEI (yearbook 2024, tourism), Aug 2025)
• There were 139,039 bed-places in state accommodation in 2024, 111,637 of them in hotels. (ONEI (yearbook 2024, tourism), Aug 2025)
• International tourists made 2,735,100 check-ins at Cuban accommodation in 2024, down from 3,090,230 in 2023. 1,481,645 were at five-star hotels. (ONEI (yearbook 2024, tourism), Aug 2025)
• International tourists spent 16,875,872 nights in all accommodation in 2024, against 17,994,687 in 2023. (ONEI (yearbook 2024, tourism), Aug 2025)
• Private (non-state) lodging accounted for an estimated 4,091,930 of the 2024 nights, about 24%, against 4,744,357 in 2023. (ONEI (yearbook 2024, tourism), Aug 2025)
• Five-star hotels took 6,546,003 international tourist nights in 2024, 39% of the total, and four-star hotels 5,503,252. (ONEI (yearbook 2024, tourism), Aug 2025)

Establishment, room and bed counts are from the Ministry of Tourism, published by ONEI, and cover the state sector only, so private home rentals are not included. Check-ins count a guest again at each hotel, which is why they exceed the number of visitors. Nights include ONEI's modelled estimate for private lodging, built with a method agreed by the Ministry of Tourism, the Ministry of Economy and Planning, an economic research institute and ONEI; it is an estimate, not a count. Shares are our calculations.

How full are Cuba's hotels?

About a quarter full on average, and less in 2025 and 2026. ONEI publishes two occupancy rates that measure different things, and both fell. In the first quarter of 2026, normally the peak season, international tourists filled about one room in eight in the tourism entities.

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Average room occupancy in Cuban state accommodation, yearbook measure, 2020 to 2024, in per cent. All guests, Cuban and foreign.

Period	Value
2020	23.1%
2021	12.7%
2022	27.4%
2023	31.7%
2024	27.0%

• On the yearbook measure, occupancy was 12.7% in 2021, 27.4% in 2022 and 31.7% in 2023. (ONEI (yearbook 2024, tourism), Aug 2025)
• Five-star hotels were 29.0% full in 2024, against 34.1% in 2023, and two-star hotels 33.3%. (ONEI (yearbook 2024, tourism), Aug 2025)
• On the quarterly measure, international tourism filled 18.9% of the rooms of Cuba's tourism entities in 2025, down from 23.0% in 2024. (ONEI (tourism indicators 2025), Mar 2026)
• International visitors spent 10,874,614 nights in tourism entities in 2025, 15.3% fewer than in 2024. (ONEI (tourism indicators 2025), Mar 2026)
• The tourism entities had 31,438,986 room-days available in 2025, 1.8% fewer than in 2024, or about 86,000 rooms open on an average day. (ONEI (tourism indicators 2025), Mar 2026)
• International tourism filled 12.9% of rooms in January to March 2026, against 23.7% a year earlier. (ONEI (tourism indicators Q1 2026), Jun 2026)
• International visitors spent 1,817,952 nights in tourism entities in January to March 2026, about half the 3,601,511 a year earlier. (ONEI (tourism indicators Q1 2026), Jun 2026)

Two measures, never to be compared or charted together. The yearbook rate is occupied room-days over existing room-days for all guests, Cuban and foreign, in state accommodation. The quarterly rate counts international tourism only, in the lodgings of the tourism entities (MINTUR, Gaviota, Palco and others). Both leave out private rentals. The nights in tourism entities are also a narrower measure than the yearbook's nights in all accommodation. 2025 and 2026 figures are preliminary. The average rooms figure is our calculation; ONEI gives no reason for the fall in room-days.

Which parts of Cuba have the most hotel rooms?

Varadero, then Havana and the northern keys. Varadero, the Ciego de Ávila keys and Holguín together hold more than half of the tourism system's rooms, while Santiago de Cuba, the second city, has about 2%.

1. 1 Varadero 22.8k
2. 2 Other areas 22.0k
3. 3 Havana 14.9k
4. 4 Ciego de Ávila 11.6k
5. 5 Holguín 8.2k
6. 6 Santiago de Cuba 1.8k
7. 7 Cayo Largo del Sur 1.3k

• Varadero had 66 establishments and 45,628 places in 2024, against 70 establishments and 20,067 rooms in 2020. (ONEI (yearbook 2024, tourism), Aug 2025)
• The Havana area had 95 establishments, 14,895 rooms and 28,301 places in 2024, up from 80 establishments and 11,598 rooms in 2023. (ONEI (yearbook 2024, tourism), Aug 2025)
• The Ciego de Ávila area, where the Jardines del Rey keys of Cayo Coco and Cayo Guillermo lie, had 38 establishments and 11,595 rooms in 2024, almost four times its 3,021 rooms in 2020. (ONEI (yearbook 2024, tourism), Aug 2025)
• Holguín had 33 establishments and 8,205 rooms in 2024, up from 5,175 rooms in 2020. (ONEI (yearbook 2024, tourism), Aug 2025)
• Santiago de Cuba had 30 establishments and 1,776 rooms in 2024, and Cayo Largo del Sur 10 establishments and 1,348 rooms. (ONEI (yearbook 2024, tourism), Aug 2025)
• All tourism areas together held 414 establishments, 82,635 rooms and 152,160 places in 2024, against 62,809 rooms in 2020. (ONEI (yearbook 2024, tourism), Aug 2025)

Tourism areas (polos turísticos) are ONEI's groupings. The table covers only the specialised entities of the tourism system, a narrower set than the 544 establishments in all state accommodation, and its places are defined differently from bed-places, so the two are kept apart. Private rentals, numerous in Havana, are not included. Cayo Santa María is not listed separately and sits within other areas. The link between the Ciego de Ávila area and the Jardines del Rey keys is geographic and is not stated in the table. ONEI publishes capacity by area, not arrivals or nights. Shares are our calculations.

How many Cubans holiday in their own country?

Cuban residents made more registered stays at state tourism entities in 2025 than in 2024, while international arrivals fell. That changed in early 2026, when domestic stays fell too. Campsites are a large part of domestic holidays.

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Nights spent by Cuban residents in state accommodation, 2020 to 2024, in millions, from the 2024 yearbook.

Period	Value
2020	4.21m
2021	5.38m
2022	8.56m
2023	7.42m
2024	6.23m

• Domestic tourists spent 6,556,822 nights at tourism entities in 2025, 11.8% more than in 2024, when the entities registered 1,835,136 domestic tourists. (ONEI (tourism indicators 2025), Mar 2026)
• Cuban residents filled 7.8% of the tourism entities' room-days in 2025, up from 7.2% in 2024. (ONEI (tourism indicators 2025), Mar 2026)
• Domestic stays fell to 228,072 in January to March 2026 from 350,302 a year earlier, and domestic nights to 764,815 from 1,077,125. (ONEI (tourism indicators Q1 2026), Jun 2026)
• Cuban residents spent 6,225,973 nights in all state accommodation in 2024, down from 8,557,899 in 2022 and 7,423,321 in 2023. 1,612,295 of them were at campsites. (ONEI (yearbook 2024, tourism), Aug 2025)
• The Campismo Popular network ran 97 campsite bases in 2024 and received 517.1 thousand Cuban guests and 3.1 thousand foreign guests. (ONEI (yearbook 2024, tourism), Aug 2025)
• Campsite bases logged 1,803,240 guest-nights in 2025, 11.4% more than in 2024, while their available room-days fell by a third, to 1,082,565. (ONEI (tourism indicators 2025), Mar 2026)

Domestic tourists are Cuban residents registered as guests at state tourism entities, so a person who stays twice is counted twice. International visitors are border arrivals, a different measure, so the two should not be compared directly. The yearbook's domestic nights cover all state accommodation and the quarterly figures cover tourism entities only, so they differ. The domestic occupancy rate is the domestic share of all room-days, not a stand-alone hotel rate. Campsite figures are from the Campismo Popular group. 2025 and 2026 figures are preliminary.

What do official figures show on transport, road safety, power and museums?

Tourism buses carried fewer passengers in 2025 than in 2024, and road deaths rose in 2025. ONEI publishes no crime statistics and no airport passenger counts, so road safety is the only official safety series. Electricity generation fell in 2024; ONEI gives no figures for hotels.

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Road traffic deaths in Cuba, 2021 to 2025, all road users.

Period	Value
2021	590
2022	705
2023	729
2024	636
2025	751

• Tourism buses carried 9.1 million passengers in 2025, against 9.9 million in 2024 and 21.6 million in 2023. The tourism bus fleet was in use 29.8% of the time in 2025. (ONEI (yearbook 2025, transport), Oct 2026)
• Cuban state airlines flew 307.1 million international passenger-kilometres in 2024, up from 224.2 million in 2023. (ONEI (yearbook 2024, transport), Aug 2025)
• Cuba recorded 7,552 road traffic accidents in 2025, with 751 deaths and 6,729 injured, against 7,511 accidents and 636 deaths in 2024. (ONEI (yearbook 2025, transport), Oct 2026)
• The road death rate was 8.0 per 100,000 people in 2025, up from 6.5 in 2024. It was 9.4 in Havana, 9.9 in Matanzas, the province of Varadero, and 11.7 in Ciego de Ávila. (ONEI (yearbook 2025, transport), Oct 2026)
• Havana had 2,590 road accidents in 2025, about a third of the national total, with 157 deaths. (ONEI (yearbook 2025, transport), Oct 2026)
• Gross electricity generation fell to 14,344.9 GWh in 2024, 5.8% less than the 15,331.1 GWh of 2023. (ONEI (electricity 2024), May 2025)
• Cuba's museums received 2,041.3 thousand visits in 2024, up from 1,827.8 thousand in 2023. (ONEI (yearbook 2024, culture), Jul 2025)
• There were 234 museums in service at the end of 2024, 23 of them in Santiago de Cuba and 23 in Holguín, and 122 art galleries. (ONEI (yearbook 2024, culture), Jul 2025)

Road figures are from the Ministry of the Interior, published by ONEI, and cover everyone on the roads, not visitors only; death rates are per 100,000 residents. Tourism-bus passengers count trips, not people, and the 2023 figure is out of line with other years. Airline figures cover Cuban state carriers only, not the foreign airlines that carry most visitors. ONEI's electricity release has no line for hotels or tourism. Museum visits cover Cuban and foreign visitors in the Ministry of Culture network and may leave out museums run by the Office of the Historian of Havana. ONEI publishes no visitor counts for Old Havana, Trinidad or the Viñales Valley. The Havana share is our calculation.

What are Cuba's tourism targets?

The government has stated visitor targets for several recent years, and arrivals have fallen short of them. Arrivals reached about 84% of the 2019 plan and about 70% of the 2025 forecast. No official target for total visitors in 2026 was found, only an aim for Canadian tourists.

• For 2019 the Ministry of Tourism (MINTUR) planned 5.1 million international visitors, calling it the year of five million. By early May 1,930,000 had arrived, which the ministry said was in line with the plan. (MINTUR, May 2019)
• In February 2024 the tourism minister said Cuba would not give up its aim of passing three million visitors that year, as reported by Prensa Latina. (Prensa Latina, Feb 2024)
• In April 2024 the ministry's stated aim was to receive 3.5 million people on holiday stays that year, as reported by Prensa Latina. (Prensa Latina, Apr 2024)
• In December 2024 the minister told parliamentary commissions that 2.6 million foreign visitor arrivals were forecast for 2025, 18% more than expected for 2024, as reported by Prensa Latina. (Prensa Latina, Dec 2024)
• In November 2025 the minister said Cuba expected one million Canadian tourists in 2026, as reported by Prensa Latina. (Prensa Latina, Nov 2025)

Targets are the government's stated aims as reported by the ministry or by Prensa Latina, the state news agency, not figures from a published plan. The 3.5 million aim refers to people on holiday stays and may not be the same measure as international visitors. Outcomes are ONEI visitor counts, and 84% and 70% are our calculations. The 2025 forecast is close to ONEI's 2025 traveller total, but travellers are a different measure from visitors. No total visitor target for 2026 from MINTUR or the government was found. Canadian arrivals so far in 2026 are in the 2026 section.

Methodology and sources

Figures come from Cuba's official statistics office, ONEI: its monthly arrivals releases, its quarterly tourism report and its statistical yearbooks, each labelled by publication. ONEI's website could not be reached reliably during research, so links go to Internet Archive copies of ONEI's own files; each figure was read from that copy. Ministry of Tourism announcements and Prensa Latina reports of official statements supply the targets, and the US National Hurricane Center the hurricane season. Each figure links to the document that carries it, with the date. Travellers and visitors are different counts and each is named. Revenue is given in convertible pesos, US dollars or Cuban pesos exactly as ONEI labels it, and no chart crosses a unit change. Where ONEI editions differ, the latest is used and editions are not mixed in a chart. The two occupancy rates are kept apart. Weather figures are one year's observations, not long-term averages. ONEI's cruise passenger series looks incomplete after 2017, so cruise figures are left out. Where we calculated a figure, the note says so. 2025 and 2026 figures are preliminary. The page is reviewed monthly and the date is shown at the top.

• MINTUR · Nov 2018
• MINTUR · May 2019
• NOAA National Hurricane Center · 1991-2020
• ONEI (arrivals, Dec 2025) · Jan 2026
• ONEI (arrivals, Sep 2026) · Oct 2026
• ONEI (electricity 2024) · May 2025
• ONEI (tourism indicators 2025) · Mar 2026
• ONEI (tourism indicators Q1 2026) · Jun 2026
• ONEI (visitors by country 2025) · Jan 2026
• ONEI (yearbook 2015) · 2016
• ONEI (yearbook 2019, tourism) · 2020
• ONEI (yearbook 2023) · Dec 2024
• ONEI (yearbook 2024, culture) · Jul 2025
• ONEI (yearbook 2024, environment) · Oct 2025
• ONEI (yearbook 2024, external sector) · Oct 2025
• ONEI (yearbook 2024, national accounts) · Sep 2025
• ONEI (yearbook 2024, tourism) · Aug 2025
• ONEI (yearbook 2024, transport) · Aug 2025
• ONEI (yearbook 2025, transport) · Oct 2026
• Prensa Latina · Feb 2024
• Prensa Latina · Apr 2024
• Prensa Latina · Dec 2024
• Prensa Latina · Nov 2025