159 Portugal Tourism Statistics for 2026

How many tourists visit Portugal each year?

Portugal set new records in 2025 on every main measure, but growth slowed. INE counts visitors in two ways: an estimate of tourists arriving from abroad, and the guests and nights recorded in accommodation. The two answer different questions and cannot be added.

• Guests living abroad 56.99m
• Portuguese residents 25.02m

• INE's arrivals estimate for 2024 was 28,969.9 thousand, after growth of 9.3% that year. (INE (tourist arrivals), Jul 2026)
• Guests living abroad made 19,708,665 check-ins at Portuguese tourist accommodation in 2025 and spent 56,987,667 nights. (INE (tourist accommodation), Oct 2026)
• Portuguese residents made 12,766,336 check-ins and spent 25,023,991 nights. (INE (tourist accommodation), Oct 2026)
• Nights by foreign guests grew only 0.8% in 2025, against 5.0% for residents. (INE (tourist accommodation), Oct 2026)
• The average stay was 2.53 nights in 2025: 2.89 nights for foreign guests and 1.96 for residents. (INE (tourist accommodation), Oct 2026)
• Foreign guests' stays are slowly getting shorter, from 2.95 nights in 2023 to 2.92 in 2024. (INE (tourist accommodation), Oct 2026)

The arrivals estimate counts overnight tourists from abroad entering by air, road and sea, in paid and unpaid lodging. It is modelled, not a border count, and leaves out day visitors. Guests count check-ins, so one tourist staying in two hotels counts twice. Guest and night figures here are for tourist accommodation (hotels, local accommodation with 10 or more beds, and rural and lodging tourism) and leave out campsites. The 2025 accommodation figures are provisional, and the growth rates for foreign and resident nights are our calculation from INE's annual rows.

How has tourism in Portugal grown over time?

Tourism in Portugal has grown fast for a decade, with one deep break. Covid cut 2020 to its lowest level since the early 1990s, and arrivals passed the pre-pandemic peak in 2023. Spending has grown faster than visitor numbers.

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Travel receipts from foreign visitors, in euros at current prices. Receipts fell by more than half in 2020 and passed the 2019 level in 2022.

Period	Value
2010	7.6bn
2013	9.2bn
2016	12.8bn
2019	18.3bn
2020	7.8bn
2021	10.1bn
2022	21.2bn
2023	25.5bn
2024	27.7bn
2025	29.1bn

• Tourist arrivals reached 24.6 million in 2019, up 7.9%, before the pandemic. (INE (tourist arrivals), Jul 2020)
• Arrivals fell 73.7% in 2020, to 6.5 million. (INE (tourist arrivals), Jul 2021)
• Arrivals passed the 2019 level in 2023, at 26.5 million, up 19.2%. (INE (tourist arrivals), Jul 2024)
• Tourist accommodation recorded 27.0 million guests and 69.9 million nights in 2019, on INE's first estimate. (INE (tourist accommodation), Feb 2020)
• Nights fell 63.0% in 2020 to 26.0 million, the fewest since 1993 (23.6 million); nights by foreign guests fell 74.9%. (INE (tourist accommodation), Feb 2021)
• In 2014, tourist accommodation recorded 17.3 million guests and 48.8 million nights. (INE (tourist accommodation), Jul 2015)
• Travel receipts have nearly quadrupled in nominal terms since 2010, when they were 7,601 million euros; they fell to 7,766 million in 2020. (Banco de Portugal (BPstat), Aug 2026)

Arrivals are model-based estimates, each taken from that year's release; INE has refined the model over time, so small changes between years need care. Part of the growth in accommodation figures before 2019 came from more local accommodation being registered and counted. The 2019 and 2020 accommodation figures are INE's first estimates for tourist accommodation without campsites. Receipts are in current euros, not adjusted for inflation.

How does Portugal compare with other EU countries?

Portugal is a mid-sized EU destination by nights but a bigger one by spending. It ranks ninth for nights by foreign guests and fifth for travel receipts, and its receipts have grown faster since 2019 than those of any of the other ten biggest EU earners.

1. 1 Spain 328.9m
2. 2 Italy 301.6m
3. 3 France 150.8m
4. 4 Greece 131.1m
5. 5 Austria 97.0m
6. 6 Croatia 85.6m
7. 7 Germany 83.1m
8. 8 Netherlands 63.8m
9. 9 Portugal 60.0m

• Foreign guests spent 60.0 million nights in Portuguese accommodation of all types in 2025, ninth in the EU-27 and about 3.9% of the EU total of 1,538.7 million. (Eurostat, Oct 2026)
• Spain led with 328.9 million foreign nights, ahead of Italy (301.6 million), France (150.8 million) and Greece (131.1 million). (Eurostat, Oct 2026)
• Portugal ranked fifth in the EU for travel receipts in 2025, after Spain (105,145 million euros), France (77,485 million), Italy (56,724 million) and Germany (37,772 million). (Eurostat, Apr 2026)
• Portugal earned more from travel than Austria (25,902 million euros) or Greece (23,627 million). (Eurostat, Apr 2026)
• Between 2019 and 2025, travel receipts rose 47.7% in Spain, 36.6% in France, 30.0% in Greece, 28.0% in Italy and 1.1% in Germany. (Eurostat, Apr 2026)

Eurostat's night counts cover all tourist accommodation, campsites included, and its Portugal figures differ slightly from INE's own because of scope and revision timing. Receipts are balance-of-payments travel credits in current euros; the growth rates and the EU share are our calculation from Eurostat values. The national receipts figure elsewhere on this page is Banco de Portugal's latest revision.

Where do Portugal's visitors come from?

Which country comes first depends on the measure. Spain sends the most visitors, many by road for short stays; the United Kingdom spends the most nights; and the United States is the big market growing fastest. On INE's tourist accommodation count, which leaves out campsites, the US was ahead of Spain in third place on nights in 2025.

1. 1 United Kingdom 10.06m
2. 2 Germany 6.46m
3. 3 United States 5.48m
4. 4 Spain 5.17m
5. 5 France 4.24m
6. 6 Netherlands 2.52m
7. 7 Brazil 2.37m

• Spain accounted for 7,117.7 thousand tourist arrivals in 2025, 23.8% of the total, down 0.6%. (INE (tourist arrivals), Jul 2026)
• The UK followed with 3,553.5 thousand arrivals, France with 3,255.4 thousand, Germany with 2,531.9 thousand and the US with 1,903.7 thousand, up 6.9%. (INE (tourist arrivals), Jul 2026)
• Brazil sent 1,510.3 thousand tourists, Switzerland 1,336.2 thousand and Italy 1,042.6 thousand. (INE (tourist arrivals), Jul 2026)
• In tourist accommodation, Germans spent 6,456,008 nights in 2025, Americans 5,476,069, Spaniards 5,170,345 and the French 4,241,229. (INE (tourist accommodation), Oct 2026)
• The Netherlands (2,516,836 nights), Brazil (2,365,797) and Ireland (2,282,533) came next, with Canada at 1,831,564 and Poland at 1,560,596. (INE (tourist accommodation), Oct 2026)
• Counting check-ins, the US was second in 2025 with 2,368,275 guests, behind the UK (2,457,863) and ahead of Spain (2,305,538). (INE (tourist accommodation), Oct 2026)
• The UK took 19.2% of nights by foreign guests in 2019. (INE (tourist accommodation), Feb 2020)
• The US share of nights by foreign guests was 7.5% in 2022. (INE (tourist accommodation), Jan 2023)
• By 2025 the UK share was 17.7% on INE's first estimate, while the US share had risen to 9.6%. (INE (tourist accommodation), Jan 2026)
• In May 2024 the US overtook France as the third-largest foreign market by monthly nights, with a 10.1% share. (INE (tourist accommodation), Jun 2024)

Arrivals are INE's modelled estimate of tourists entering the country and include stays with friends and in unpaid lodging. Nights and guests count stays in tourist accommodation (hotels, local accommodation with 10 or more beds, rural tourism), without campsites; the order of Spain and the US can differ on wider counts. The 2019, 2022 and 2025 shares are INE's first estimates.

How much do international visitors spend in Portugal?

Foreign visitor spending has set a new record every year since 2022. British visitors spend the most, and spending by Americans has grown fastest. Spain sends the most tourists but ranks only fifth on spending.

1. 1 United Kingdom 4.28bn
2. 2 Germany 3.37bn
3. 3 France 3.24bn
4. 4 United States 3.14bn
5. 5 Spain 2.84bn
6. 6 Brazil 1.20bn

• Travel receipts were 27,743.8 million euros in 2024. (Banco de Portugal (BPstat), Aug 2026)
• British visitors spent 4,282.8 million euros in Portugal in 2025, the most of any country. (Banco de Portugal (BPstat), 2026)
• German visitors spent 3,367.1 million euros, French visitors 3,242.6 million and Americans 3,142.9 million. (Banco de Portugal (BPstat), 2026)
• Spanish visitors spent 2,836.3 million euros and Brazilians 1,197.9 million. (Banco de Portugal (BPstat), 2026)
• Visitors from the euro area spent 14,247.5 million euros, just under half of all receipts. (Banco de Portugal (BPstat), 2026)
• US visitor spending has grown about two and a half times since 2019, when it was 1,238.1 million euros, the fastest rise of the big markets. (Banco de Portugal (BPstat), 2026)
• Travel brought in 21.7% of Portugal's exports of goods and services in 2025, and 47.9% of services exports. (Banco de Portugal (BPstat), Aug 2026)
• In 2019 travel made up 19.5% of exports of goods and services and 50.6% of services exports. (Banco de Portugal (BPstat), Aug 2026)
• Residents of Portugal spent 7,154.3 million euros on travel abroad in 2025. (Banco de Portugal (BPstat), Aug 2026)
• The travel surplus was 20,897.5 million euros in 2024 and 13,207.6 million in 2019. (Banco de Portugal (BPstat), Aug 2026)

Travel receipts are Banco de Portugal balance-of-payments figures: what non-residents spend on goods and services during stays of under a year, including same-day visitors and excluding international fares. They differ from INE's satellite-account spending in the next section. The export shares are our calculation from three Banco de Portugal series. All figures are the latest revised values.

What is tourism worth to Portugal's economy?

Tourism is one of the largest parts of Portugal's economy, and its weight has held level since 2023. INE publishes three different shares, each measuring something else: direct value added, total contribution to GDP and tourism consumption. They should not be compared with each other.

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Tourism's direct gross value added in Portugal, in euros at current prices. 2025 is a preliminary estimate.

Period	Value
2021	10.3bn
2022	16.1bn
2023	19.0bn
2024	20.3bn
2025	21.5bn

• Tourism's direct gross value added was 21,473 million euros in 2025, 8.1% of national GVA, up 5.6% in nominal terms. (INE (Tourism Satellite Account), Aug 2026)
• Tourism consumption in Portugal reached 49,350 million euros in 2025, equal to 16.1% of GDP, just below the 2023 record of 16.3%. (INE (Tourism Satellite Account), Aug 2026)
• Tourism added 0.3 percentage points to Portugal's real GDP growth of 1.9% in 2025. (INE (Tourism Satellite Account), Aug 2026)
• Inbound tourism spending was 28,686 million euros in 2023 on the satellite-account measure, up 21% on 2022. (INE (Tourism Satellite Account), Aug 2026)
• Employment in tourism-characteristic activities grew 10.6% in 2023, against 3.8% for the whole economy. (INE (Tourism Satellite Account), Aug 2026)
• Average pay per worker in those activities was 92.8% of the national average. (INE (Tourism Satellite Account), Aug 2026)
• Tourism's direct share of GVA was 5.5% in 2021, during the pandemic. (INE (Tourism Satellite Account), Aug 2026)
• INE's first estimate, published in 2023, put tourism's direct share of GVA in 2022 at 8.9%; the revised figure is lower, so early estimates need care. (INE (Tourism Satellite Account), Jun 2023)

Direct gross value added counts only the output of tourism itself. The total contribution adds knock-on effects through suppliers, estimated from 2017 input-output tables, which INE says may be less reliable. Tourism consumption is a measure of demand, not a share of GDP produced by tourism. The 2025 figures are preliminary, 2024 provisional and 2023 final. Satellite-account inbound spending covers items left out of balance-of-payments travel receipts, so the two differ. Jobs are full-time equivalents in tourism industries, which also serve residents.

Which regions of Portugal get the most visitors?

The Algarve takes the most tourist nights, just ahead of the Lisbon region, and the North is growing fastest. Lisbon earns the most per room, and Madeira has the fullest beds. These figures use INE's tourist accommodation count, the only basis that covers every region the same way.

1. 1 Algarve 20.78m
2. 2 Grande Lisboa 19.61m
3. 3 Norte 14.72m
4. 4 Madeira 9.93m
5. 5 Centro 5.26m
6. 6 Azores 3.11m

• The Algarve recorded 20.78 million nights in tourist accommodation in 2025 and Grande Lisboa 19.61 million. (INE (tourist accommodation), Oct 2026)
• Norte grew from 11.56 million nights in 2022 to 14.72 million in 2025, the fastest rise of the big regions. (INE (tourist accommodation), Oct 2026)
• Madeira recorded 9.93 million nights, Centro 5.26 million and the Azores 3.11 million. (INE (tourist accommodation), Oct 2026)
• Madeira had the highest bed occupancy in 2025, at 68.1%, followed by Grande Lisboa (57.0%) and the Algarve (49.1%); Centro was lowest at 33.4%. (INE (tourist accommodation), Oct 2026)
• Tourist accommodation in Grande Lisboa took 2.05 billion euros in revenue in 2025 and in the Algarve 1.80 billion. (INE (Tourism Statistics 2025), Jul 2026)
• Norte took 1.15 billion euros, Madeira 887 million, Centro 340 million and the Azores 256 million. (INE (Tourism Statistics 2025), Jul 2026)
• Grande Lisboa and the Algarve together earned 54.0% of accommodation revenue; Madeira's revenue grew fastest, up 16.6%, and Grande Lisboa's slowest, up 1.9%. (INE (Tourism Statistics 2025), Jul 2026)
• Revenue per available room was highest in Grande Lisboa, at 106.0 euros, ahead of Madeira (97.0 euros) and the Algarve (78.4 euros); Grande Lisboa was the only region where it fell, by 0.5%. (INE (Tourism Statistics 2025), Jul 2026)
• The average daily rate was 148.8 euros in Grande Lisboa and 133.8 euros in the Algarve; Madeira's rose most, up 13.3%. (INE (Tourism Statistics 2025), Jul 2026)

Regions are the 2024 NUTS II regions, so Grande Lisboa is the Lisbon area, not the city, and Centro no longer includes Oeste e Vale do Tejo. Nights and occupancy cover hotels, local accommodation with 10 or more beds and rural tourism, without campsites; revenue and room rates cover the same units. The Madeira and Azores statistics offices publish wider counts, shown in their own section and not comparable with these.

Which Portuguese cities and sights draw the most visitors?

Lisbon is Portugal's biggest tourist city by a wide margin, and the Algarve resort of Albufeira takes more nights than Porto. Near Lisbon, the palaces and parks of Sintra draw more than three million visits a year.

1. 1 Lisbon 12.43m
2. 2 Albufeira 6.54m
3. 3 Porto 5.34m
4. 4 Funchal 4.80m

• Lisbon municipality hosted 5.39 million guests and 12.43 million nights in tourist accommodation in January to September 2026. (INE (tourist accommodation), Oct 2026)
• Porto municipality had 2.42 million guests and 5.34 million nights over the same months. (INE (tourist accommodation), Oct 2026)
• Albufeira, in the Algarve, had fewer guests than Porto, 1.48 million, but more nights, 6.54 million. (INE (tourist accommodation), Oct 2026)
• Funchal, Madeira's capital, had 1.03 million guests and 4.80 million nights. (INE (tourist accommodation), Oct 2026)
• Guest numbers rose 2% in Lisbon, 3% in Porto and 7% in Albufeira on the same months of 2025. (INE (tourist accommodation), Oct 2026)
• Sintra's monuments drew 597,156 visits in 2005, so visits grew more than fivefold by 2024. (Parques de Sintra, 2025)
• Visits to the Sintra monuments dropped from 3,656,479 in 2019 to 730,483 in 2020. (Parques de Sintra, 2025)
• Sintra's 2024 visits were up 1.3% on 2023. (Parques de Sintra, 2025)

Municipality figures are preliminary and cover tourist accommodation with 10 or more beds, so the many small holiday flats in Lisbon and Porto are left out. Sintra visits are counted across all the sites run by Parques de Sintra, including Pena, Monserrate, the Moorish Castle and the Sintra and Queluz national palaces; 2024 is the latest year in the company's published annual report.

Where do visitors stay in Portugal?

Hotels dominate: they hold most of the beds and take four in every five nights in INE's count. Holiday lets booked online have grown fast since 2019, but INE's survey counts only the larger ones, so platform data gives a fuller picture of small rentals.

• Hotels and similar 81.4%
• Local accommodation 14.6%
• Rural and lodging tourism 4.0%

• Portugal had 8,446 tourist accommodation establishments in 2025: 2,237 hotel establishments, 4,155 local accommodation units and 2,054 rural and lodging tourism units. (INE (Tourism Statistics 2025), Jul 2026)
• There were 1,705 hotels, 186 of them five-star. (INE (Tourism Statistics 2025), Jul 2026)
• Hotels supplied 260,200 beds and local accommodation 99,600; hotel establishments held 367,416 of the 502,666 beds in tourist accommodation. (INE (Tourism Statistics 2025), Jul 2026)
• Hotel nights rose 2.4% in 2025 while local accommodation nights fell 0.9%. (INE (Tourism Statistics 2025), Jul 2026)
• Net bed occupancy was 48.2% in 2025: 52.8% in hotels, 36.9% in local accommodation and 29.4% in rural tourism. Room occupancy was 58.2%. (INE (Tourism Statistics 2025), Jul 2026)
• Revenue per available room averaged 72.4 euros, up 4.4%, and the average daily rate 124.5 euros, up 3.7%. (INE (Tourism Statistics 2025), Jul 2026)
• Five-star hotels averaged 226.2 euros a night and 143.8 euros per available room. (INE (Tourism Statistics 2025), Jul 2026)
• Tourist accommodation earned 7,133.2 million euros in 2025, up 6.9%, of which 5,472.1 million came from rooms. (INE (Tourism Statistics 2025), Jul 2026)
• Hotels took 87.1% of accommodation revenue and local accommodation 8.8%. (INE (Tourism Statistics 2025), Jul 2026)
• Platform-booked nights rose from 31.1 million in 2019 to 44.9 million in 2024; 42.5 million of the 2025 total were by foreign guests. (Eurostat, Oct 2026)
• By region, platform nights were highest in the Algarve (13.37 million), Grande Lisboa (11.75 million) and Norte (10.44 million), with 5.42 million in Madeira. (Eurostat, Oct 2026)

These INE figures cover tourist accommodation without campsites. INE counts local accommodation (alojamento local) only in units with 10 or more beds, following the EU threshold, so most small holiday flats are outside its survey. Establishment counts are a snapshot at 31 July 2025. Platform nights are Eurostat experimental statistics from data shared by Airbnb, Booking.com, Expedia Group and Tripadvisor; they overlap with INE's counts and cannot be added to them, and early years may be less complete.

How do visitors arrive in Portugal?

Portugal's airports are well above their pre-pandemic traffic and set new records each year. Lisbon handles about half of all passengers, but Porto and Faro are growing faster. The United Kingdom is the busiest country for flights.

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Passengers at Portugal's main airports, 2019 to 2025. Traffic passed the 2019 level in 2023.

Period	Value
2019	60.1m
2020	18.4m
2021	25.6m
2022	56.8m
2023	67.5m
2024	70.4m
2025	73.75m

• Lisbon airport handled 36.1 million passengers in 2025, 49.0% of the total, up 2.9%. (INE (airports), Feb 2026)
• Porto airport handled 16.9 million passengers, up 6.3%, and Faro 10.4 million, up 5.8%. (INE (airports), Feb 2026)
• The UK was the top country for flights to and from Portugal in 2025, followed by France, Spain, Germany and Italy. (INE (airports), Feb 2026)
• Sunday was the busiest day of the week for arriving passengers in 2025. (INE (airports), Feb 2026)
• In January to August 2026 the main airports handled 51.0 million passengers, up 2.4%. (INE (airports), Oct 2026)
• Lisbon grew only 0.8% in those months, to 24.3 million, while Porto rose 7.1% to 12.1 million and Faro 4.0% to 7.6 million. (INE (airports), Oct 2026)
• Spain overtook France as the second country for flights in 2026. (INE (airports), Oct 2026)
• The Port of Lisbon had a record 206,226 turnaround cruise passengers in 2025, on cruises starting or ending in the city, across 121 calls. (Port of Lisbon (APL), Jan 2026)
• The port estimates the direct economic impact of those turnaround cruises at more than 80 million euros. (Port of Lisbon (APL), Jan 2026)
• Lisbon received 448,037 cruise passengers on 220 calls in January to August 2026, up 2%; August was its best August on record, with 86,322 passengers. (Port of Lisbon (APL), Sep 2026)

Airport passengers count everyone boarding, landing or in direct transit, so a return trip counts twice. The main airports are Lisbon, Porto, Faro and the island airports; INE does not split out Funchal in these releases. The 2019 to 2022 totals in the chart are our sums of INE's monthly figures. 2025 and 2026 data are preliminary. Cruise figures are the port authority's own counts and impact estimate.

How many tourists visit Madeira and the Azores?

Both island regions grew in 2025 on the counts of their own statistics offices. Those counts use a wider basis than INE, taking in every holiday let, so they are shown here on their own and should not be set against the national regional figures above.

1. 1 São Miguel 2.97m
2. 2 Terceira 567,772
3. 3 Pico 263,075

• Madeira received 2.44 million guests and almost 12.8 million nights in 2025, up 9.4% and 8.4%, counting all local accommodation of any size. (DREM (Madeira statistics office), Jan 2026)
• Nights by Portuguese residents in Madeira rose 33.9% in 2025. (DREM (Madeira statistics office), Jan 2026)
• In January to September 2026 Madeira had 1.98 million guests, up 5.3%, and 10.1 million nights, up 2.4%, on the same wider basis. (DREM (Madeira statistics office), Oct 2026)
• In September 2026 Portuguese residents were Madeira's top market, with 19.2% of nights, ahead of Germany (18.0%) and the UK (16.4%). (DREM (Madeira statistics office), Oct 2026)
• Madeira airport handled 5.4 million passengers in 2025, up 12.2%, and Porto Santo 256,700; together a record 5.7 million. (DREM (Madeira statistics office), Jan 2026)
• Madeira's two airports handled 4.47 million passengers in January to September 2026, up 3.0%. (DREM (Madeira statistics office), Nov 2026)
• Funchal's port received 728,212 cruise passengers in 2025 and 331 cruise ships called at Madeira's ports; Germans made up 38.6% of passengers and Britons 37.8%. (DREM (Madeira statistics office), Mar 2026)
• The Azores recorded 1.39 million guests and 4.60 million nights in 2025, up 3.8% and 4.6%, counting all local accommodation. (SREA (Azores statistics office), Jul 2026)
• Foreign guests spent 3.22 million nights in the Azores, 70.0% of the total, up 7.3%, while nights by Portuguese residents fell 1.2% to 1.38 million. (SREA (Azores statistics office), Jul 2026)
• Germany is the Azores' largest foreign market, with 524,400 nights. (SREA (Azores statistics office), Jul 2026)
• São Miguel took 2.97 million of the 4.31 million nights in Azores hotels and local accommodation; Pico grew fastest, up 9.9%. (SREA (Azores statistics office), Jul 2026)

DREM (Madeira) and SREA (Azores) count all local accommodation, including units under 10 beds, while INE counts only units with 10 or more beds. Their totals are therefore higher than INE's and are not comparable with the regional figures above. Madeira's 2026 figures are preliminary. Airport passengers exclude transit; cruise passengers are counted in transit at the port. The island chart covers hotels and local accommodation only.

How much do Portuguese residents travel?

Half of Portugal's residents took at least one tourist trip in 2025, and most trips stay inside the country. Trips abroad are growing faster, and Spain is the favourite foreign destination by far.

• Within Portugal 22.2m
• Abroad 3.9m

• 22.2 million of residents' trips in 2025 were within Portugal, up 14.0%, and 3.9 million were abroad, up 12.5%. (INE (residents' travel), Jul 2026)
• 50.3% of residents, 5.4 million people, took at least one tourist trip in 2025, up 1.6 points. (INE (residents' travel), Jul 2026)
• Residents spent 265.1 euros per tourist per trip on average, down 4.2%: 171.6 euros at home and 803.2 euros abroad. (INE (residents' travel), Jul 2026)
• Residents' trips generated about 101.7 million nights, up 9.2%, and 74.3% of them were in Portugal. (INE (residents' travel), Jul 2026)
• Staying free with family or friends was the most common lodging, with 39.4 million nights. (INE (residents' travel), Jul 2026)
• The average trip lasted 3.90 nights in 2025, down from 4.07 in 2024. (INE (residents' travel), Apr 2026)
• Spain was the destination of 38.8% of trips abroad, followed by France (9.7%) and Italy (6.3%). (INE (residents' travel), Apr 2026)
• Trips abroad jumped 30.0% in January to March 2026, to 923.8 thousand. (INE (residents' travel), Jul 2026)
• Residents' trips fell 1.5% in April to June 2026, to 5.9 million, the first fall in two years; domestic trips fell 3.8% while trips abroad rose 10.0%. (INE (residents' travel), Oct 2026)
• In 2020 residents made 14.4 million trips, down 41.1%. (INE (residents' travel), Jul 2021)

Trips come from INE's survey of residents and count journeys with at least one night away, including stays with family and friends and in second homes, so their nights are not comparable with accommodation counts. The 2026 quarterly figures are provisional. Residents' travel spending abroad on the balance of payments is in the spending section.

How safe is Portugal for visitors?

Police in Portugal recorded slightly more crime in 2025, while violent and serious crime fell. Theft is the most-reported offence. There is no official crime series for tourists, so these are national figures for everyone in the country.

• Police in Portugal registered 365,802 crime reports in 2025, up 3.1%. (Internal Security System (RASI), Mar 2026)
• Reports of violent and serious crime fell 1.6% to 14,149, about 4% of all reported crime. (Internal Security System (RASI), Mar 2026)
• Lisbon district recorded 85,302 crime reports, up 4.5%, and Porto district 57,453, up 4%. (Internal Security System (RASI), Mar 2026)
• Faro district, which covers the Algarve, recorded 26,459 reports, down 0.8%. (Internal Security System (RASI), Mar 2026)
• Reports fell 3.6% in Madeira, to 6,630, and 8.8% in the Azores, to 8,759, the largest fall of any district. (Internal Security System (RASI), Mar 2026)

Figures are crime reports registered by police in 2025, published in the Annual Internal Security Report (RASI). They cover residents and visitors alike and are raw counts, not rates, so districts with larger populations record more. There is no tourist-specific breakdown.

When is the best time to visit Portugal?

August is the busiest month, with nearly three times January's nights, and July to September hold over a third of the year's stays. Spring and autumn are warm in Lisbon and the Algarve with far fewer visitors, while Madeira is mild all year.

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Nights in tourist accommodation by month in 2025, without campsites. August is the peak and January the low.

Period	Value
Jan	3.66m
Feb	4.16m
Mar	5.56m
Apr	7.12m
May	7.80m
Jun	8.07m
Jul	9.41m
Aug	10.70m
Sep	8.51m
Oct	7.71m
Nov	5.04m
Dec	4.26m

• August 2025 had 10.70 million nights in tourist accommodation, 13.0% of the year, against 3.66 million in January (4.5%). (INE (tourist accommodation), Oct 2026)
• July to September held 34.9% of 2025 nights. (INE (tourist accommodation), Oct 2026)
• Bed occupancy ran from 29.2% in January 2025 to 67.5% in August; in hotels it ran from 31.9% to 73.2%. (INE (Tourism Statistics 2025), Jul 2026)
• In August 2026 bed occupancy reached 76.1% in the Algarve, 73.3% in Madeira and 67.8% in Grande Lisboa. (INE (tourist accommodation), Oct 2026)
• Lisbon's average daily high is 15.1C in January and 28.8C in August, with 110.6 days a year reaching 25C. (IPMA, 2024)
• Lisbon gets 793.5mm of rain a year, but only 2.6mm in July against 133.9mm in November. (IPMA, 2024)
• Faro, in the Algarve, averages highs of 16.3C in January and 29.4C in July, with only 455.1mm of rain a year. (IPMA, 2024)
• Porto is cooler and wetter: highs of 14.0C in January and 24.8C in August, 1,146.9mm of rain and 46.9 days a year at 25C or more. (IPMA, 2024)
• Funchal's average daily high never falls below 19.9C, in February, and peaks at 26.8C in August; its annual mean is 20.0C. (IPMA, 2024)
• Ponta Delgada in the Azores averages highs of 17.5C in January and 26.0C in August, with 987.5mm of rain; December is the wettest month. (IPMA, 2024)

Monthly nights and occupancy cover tourist accommodation without campsites and are provisional; the monthly shares are our calculation from INE's table. Occupancy counts beds, so a double bed counts as two. Climate values are IPMA normals for 1991 to 2020; Lisbon's station is in the city centre and Porto's at the airport on the coast.

What do the latest 2026 figures show?

Portuguese tourism is still growing in 2026, but slowly, from record levels. Every month so far has been busier than a year earlier by small margins, and accommodation revenue is rising faster than nights as room rates climb.

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Nights in tourist accommodation by month in 2026. Each month so far is slightly above the same month of 2025.

Period	Value
Jan	3.74m
Feb	4.20m
Mar	5.63m
Apr	7.15m
May	8.00m
Jun	8.13m
Jul	9.58m
Aug	10.89m
Sep	8.68m

• January to September 2026 brought 25.8 million guests to tourist accommodation, up 1.9%. (INE (tourist accommodation), Oct 2026)
• Nights by residents rose 2.5% to 20.3 million, and by foreign guests 1.1% to 45.7 million. (INE (tourist accommodation), Oct 2026)
• Accommodation revenue reached 6,020.1 million euros in the nine months, up 5.3%, with 4,649.2 million from rooms. (INE (tourist accommodation), Oct 2026)
• September 2026 had 3.4 million guests and 8.7 million nights, up 2.0%, with an average daily rate of 147.3 euros and revenue per available room of 102.0 euros. (INE (tourist accommodation), Oct 2026)
• August 2026 had 10.9 million nights, the busiest month in INE's current series, with 3.9 million guests and 1.1 billion euros of revenue. (INE (tourist accommodation), Sep 2026)
• April to June 2026 had 9.4 million guests and 23.3 million nights, up 1.2%; guests from abroad took 71.9% of the quarter's nights. (INE (tourist accommodation), Aug 2026)
• Nights in January to September rose 5.5% in Norte, to 12.15 million, 1.7% in Grande Lisboa, to 15.31 million, and 1.6% in the Algarve, to 17.47 million, while Centro fell 1.1%. (INE (tourist accommodation), Oct 2026)
• Algarve accommodation revenue reached 1.65 billion euros in the nine months, up 6.6%, just ahead of Grande Lisboa's 1.61 billion. (INE (tourist accommodation), Oct 2026)
• British guests spent 8,246,767 nights in January to September 2026, Germans 5,090,545, Americans 4,473,727 and Spaniards 4,326,778. (INE (tourist accommodation), Oct 2026)
• The monthly travel receipts for January to August 2026 add up to about 21.0 billion euros, roughly 3% more than the same months of 2025. (Banco de Portugal (BPstat), Oct 2026)
• Receipts of 4,436.2 million euros in August 2026 were the highest for any month in the series. (Banco de Portugal (BPstat), Oct 2026)

The 2026 figures are preliminary or provisional and cover tourist accommodation without campsites. The year-to-date receipts total is our sum of Banco de Portugal monthly values. Madeira and the Azores are left out of the regional growth figures here; see their own section.

Methodology and sources

Figures come from Portugal's official producers: INE for accommodation, tourist arrivals, the satellite account, residents' travel and airports, each labelled by dataset; Banco de Portugal's BPstat database for travel receipts and the travel balance; Eurostat for EU comparisons and online platform nights; the Madeira and Azores statistics offices for their regions; the Port of Lisbon for cruises; Parques de Sintra for monument visits; the Annual Internal Security Report for crime; and IPMA for climate. Each figure links to the document that carries it, with the date. INE's tourist accommodation series (without campsites) is used for regions, markets and 2026; its wider all-accommodation total appears once and is never charted or compared with the narrower series. Madeira and Azores office figures use a wider basis and are never set against INE's. Provisional figures are labelled, and calculations of our own are marked as such. The page is reviewed monthly and the date is shown at the top.

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