143 Romania Tourism Statistics for 2026

How many tourists visit Romania each year?

Romania's tourist accommodation is filled mainly by Romanians, who made more than four in five check-ins in 2025. Totals slipped in 2025 because residents travelled less, while foreign guests kept growing. INS counts check-ins and nights in registered accommodation, not unique visitors.

• Romanian residents 24.96m
• Foreign guests 5.41m

• Arrivals totalled 14,569,794 in 2024, of which 2,412,810 were by foreign guests. (INS (TEMPO, TUR104D), Apr 2026)
• Romanian residents made 11,631,892 arrivals in 2025, about 4.3% fewer than the 12,156,984 of 2024. (INS (TEMPO, TUR104D), Apr 2026)
• Foreign guests made about 18.4% of all arrivals in 2025, on our calculation. (INS (TEMPO, TUR104D), Apr 2026)
• Romanian residents spent 24,964,526 nights in 2025 and foreign guests 5,405,682. (INS (TEMPO, TUR105B), Apr 2026)
• Nights totalled 30,837,328 in 2024. In 2025 foreign guests' nights rose about 8.3% and residents' nights fell about 3.4%. (INS (TEMPO, TUR105B), Apr 2026)
• The average stay works out at about 2.1 nights per arrival in 2025, on our calculation. (INS (TEMPO, TUR105B), Apr 2026)

Figures are from INS's annual survey of tourist accommodation with 5 or more bed places. Arrivals count check-ins, so one tourist staying in two hotels counts twice. From 2021 the count includes rented apartments and rooms. The growth rates, the foreign share and the average stay are our calculations from INS's annual rows.

How has tourism in Romania changed since 2010?

Arrivals in Romanian accommodation more than doubled in the decade to 2019, collapsed in 2020 and were back above the 2019 level by 2023 on INS's published figures. But INS widened its count in 2021 to take in rented apartments and rooms. On a like-for-like basis, arrivals and foreign nights in 2025 were still below 2019.

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Arrivals in Romanian tourist accommodation, 2010 to 2025. From 2021 the count widened to include rented apartments and rooms, so later years are not like-for-like with 2019 and earlier.

Period	Value
2010	6.07m
2012	7.69m
2014	8.47m
2016	11.00m
2018	12.91m
2019	13.37m
2020	6.40m
2021	10.21m
2022	12.59m
2023	13.91m
2024	14.57m
2025	14.26m

• Arrivals rose from 6,072,757 in 2010 to 13,374,943 in 2019. (INS (TEMPO, TUR104D), Apr 2026)
• Covid cut arrivals to 6,398,642 in 2020, and foreign arrivals to 453,867. (INS (TEMPO, TUR104D), Apr 2026)
• Foreign arrivals peaked at 2,796,622 in 2018 and have not returned to that level. (INS (TEMPO, TUR104D), Apr 2026)
• Rented apartments and rooms, first counted in 2021, accounted for 1,805,348 of the 2025 arrivals. Leaving them out, 2025 arrivals were about 12.45 million, below 2019. (INS (TEMPO, TUR104D), Apr 2026)
• Hotels had 9,028,396 arrivals in 2025 against 9,274,954 in 2019. (INS (TEMPO, TUR104D), Apr 2026)
• Nights reached 30,086,091 in 2019 and fell to 14,579,140 in 2020. (INS (TEMPO, TUR105B), Apr 2026)
• Foreign guests spent 5,290,838 nights in 2019. Without rented apartments and rooms (555,902 foreign nights in 2025), the 2025 figure would be about 4.85 million. (INS (TEMPO, TUR105B), Apr 2026)
• Foreign guests' nights in hotels were 4,258,405 in 2025 against 4,463,236 in 2019. (INS (TEMPO, TUR105B), Apr 2026)

All years come from the current version of INS's annual tables, not from each year's first release. INS revised 2021 and 2022 to include rented apartments and rooms, a category with no 2019 row, so the coverage widened in 2021. The like-for-like totals are our subtraction of that category.

What do the latest 2026 figures show?

Foreign guests are driving Romanian tourism in 2026, with double-digit growth, while stays by Romanian residents are flat to down. The Black Sea coast and the Danube Delta are growing fastest, and Bucharest and Brașov have slipped.

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Nights in Romanian tourist accommodation by month in 2026, provisional. July and August hold well over a third of the nine-month total.

Period	Value
Jan	1.49m
Feb	1.53m
Mar	1.44m
Apr	1.52m
May	2.16m
Jun	2.68m
Jul	4.74m
Aug	5.64m
Sep	2.81m

• Calculated from INS's provisional monthly figures, arrivals totalled 11,078,212 in January to September 2026, up 1.2% on 10,952,093 a year earlier; arrivals of Romanian residents fell 1.0% to 8,918,479. (INS (TEMPO, TUR104G), Oct 2026)
• Calculated the same way, nights came to 23,992,312 over the nine months, up 0.5%: 4,394,411 by foreign guests, up 10.4%, and 19,597,901 by residents, down 1.5%. (INS (TEMPO, TUR105F), Oct 2026)
• August 2026 had 2,268,927 arrivals, about 9.0% more than August 2025 (2,080,676); 344,443 were foreign guests. (INS (TEMPO, TUR104G), Oct 2026)
• Nights in August 2026 reached 5,641,008, against 5,346,209 in August 2024. (INS (TEMPO, TUR105G), Oct 2026)
• Calculated from INS's provisional monthly figures, arrivals in Constanța county on the Black Sea coast rose 15.6% to 2,016,875 in January to September 2026; August alone had 833,526. (INS (TEMPO, TUR104F), Oct 2026)
• Bucharest arrivals fell 2.0% to 1,459,673 over the nine months, while foreign arrivals there rose 4.1% to 832,253. (INS (TEMPO, TUR104F), Oct 2026)
• Tulcea county, the gateway to the Danube Delta, had 165,144 arrivals, up 16.4%, and its foreign arrivals nearly doubled to 11,695 from 6,042. (INS (TEMPO, TUR104F), Oct 2026)
• Arrivals rose 9.3% in Sibiu county to 501,165 and grew in Cluj to 514,488, but fell 4.9% in Brașov to 994,709 and 5.9% in Suceava to 380,413. (INS (TEMPO, TUR104F), Oct 2026)

The 2026 figures are provisional and come from INS's monthly survey, which covers establishments with 10 or more bed places, so monthly totals run slightly below the annual survey. The nine-month totals and growth rates are our sums of INS's monthly rows, not a published INS total; INS may revise them.

Where do Romania's foreign tourists come from?

Germany and Italy send the most guests to Romanian accommodation, with the United States and the United Kingdom almost level behind them. Germany, France and Hungary remain well below 2019, while the UK, Poland and Ukraine have grown. Border counts, a different measure, are dominated by neighbouring countries.

1. 1 Germany 246,966
2. 2 Italy 225,407
3. 3 United States 151,536
4. 4 United Kingdom 151,129
5. 5 Spain 126,791
6. 6 Poland 125,270
7. 7 Hungary 122,608
8. 8 France 108,081

• Italy sent 225,407 arrivals to Romanian tourist accommodation in 2025, the United States 151,536 and the United Kingdom 151,129. (Eurostat, Oct 2026)
• Spain followed with 126,791, Poland 125,270, Hungary 122,608, France 108,081, Ukraine 101,786 and Bulgaria 94,450. (Eurostat, Oct 2026)
• Arrivals from Germany were 296,439 in 2019, so 2025 was about 17% lower; France fell about 30% from 154,301 and Hungary about 22% from 156,884. (Eurostat, Oct 2026)
• The UK grew about 9% on 2019 (139,175), Poland about 18% (105,843) and Ukraine about 87% (54,560). (Eurostat, Oct 2026)
• By nights, Germans spent 491,157 in Romanian accommodation in 2025, Italians 470,316, Britons 337,388 and Americans 326,320. (Eurostat, Oct 2026)
• INS counted 12.815 million foreign visitor arrivals at Romania's borders in 2019 and 14.777 million in 2023, the last full year before Schengen entry. (INS (TEMPO, TUR107A), Sep 2026)
• The largest border flows in 2023 came from Ukraine (3,800 thousand), Moldova (3,049 thousand), Bulgaria (1,584 thousand) and Hungary (1,180 thousand). (INS (TEMPO, TUR107C), Sep 2026)
• In 2025, counting only non-EU nationals at external borders, INS recorded 6.955 million arrivals, led by Ukraine (2,833 thousand), Moldova (1,873 thousand) and Serbia (546 thousand). (INS (TEMPO, TUR107C), Sep 2026)
• On the same 2025 basis, 314 thousand arrivals came from the UK and 272 thousand from Israel, a market not shown separately in the accommodation data. (INS (TEMPO, TUR107C), Sep 2026)

Arrivals and nights by country are INS data as published by Eurostat, which uses a slightly different coverage and total from INS's annual figures; the growth rates are our calculation. Some of the growth from Ukraine is likely to be displaced people in paid accommodation. Border arrivals count visitors, including day trips, transit and shopping, not overnight tourists. From 31 March 2024 air and sea arrivals from Schengen states stopped being counted, and from January 2025 only non-EU nationals at external borders are counted, so 2024 and 2025 cannot be compared with earlier years, and the 2025 figures listed against a country are non-EU citizens arriving from it.

How much do foreign visitors spend in Romania?

Foreign visitors spent a little more in Romania in 2025, but Romanians spent almost twice as much abroad, so the travel deficit widened. Receipts are growing faster in 2026. Business travel makes up a large part of what visitors spend.

1. 1 Receipts 2024 5.28bn
2. 2 Receipts 2025 5.38bn
3. 3 Spending abroad 2024 8.93bn
4. 4 Spending abroad 2025 10.00bn

• Travel receipts were 5,279 million euros in 2024, so 2025 was about 1.9% higher. (BNR (balance of payments), Feb 2026)
• Romanians spent 8,927 million euros on travel abroad in 2024. The travel deficit widened from 3,648 million euros in 2024 to 4,621 million in 2025. (BNR (balance of payments), Feb 2026)
• In January to August 2026 travel receipts rose 13.5% to 3,689 million euros, and payments for travel abroad rose 6.5% to 6,672 million. (BNR (balance of payments), Oct 2026)
• Receipts were 3,195 million euros in 2019 and spending abroad 5,360 million; in 2020 they fell to 1,262 million and 2,709 million. (BNR (balance of payments), 2020)
• Receipts reached 4,474 million euros in 2022, with payments of 7,382 million. (BNR (balance of payments), 2022)
• In 2023 receipts were 4,973 million euros and payments 8,667 million. (BNR (balance of payments), Dec 2025)
• 56.4% of 2024 receipts came from personal travel and the rest from business travel; nearly 80% of Romanians' travel payments abroad were for personal travel. (BNR (balance of payments), Dec 2025)
• Travel made up 13.3% of Romania's services receipts in 2024, up from 12.5% in 2023, and 32.0% of services payments. (BNR (balance of payments), Dec 2025)

Travel receipts and payments are National Bank of Romania balance-of-payments figures in current euros: spending by non-residents in Romania, and by Romanian residents abroad, including business, study and medical travel. Each year is taken from BNR's own annual report or release, and BNR revises recent years; 2025 and 2026 are provisional. Eurostat publishes an older version of these figures that differs, so it is not used here. The growth rate for 2025 is our calculation.

What is tourism worth to Romania's economy?

Tourism is a smaller part of Romania's economy than in most EU countries, and INS's published share of tourism in GDP has not regained its pre-pandemic level. Hotels and restaurants employ more people than in 2019. The figures below measure different things and should not be compared with each other.

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INS's published share of tourism in Romania's GDP, 2008 to 2023, in per cent. The share rose by about two thirds to 2019, nearly halved in 2020 and has not fully recovered.

Period	Value
2008	1.9%
2010	1.8%
2013	1.9%
2014	2.0%
2015	2.4%
2016	2.8%
2017	2.8%
2018	2.9%
2019	3.0%
2020	1.6%
2021	1.7%
2022	2.6%
2023	2.6%

• INS's published share of tourism in GDP was 3.0% in 2019 and fell to 1.6% in 2020. (INS (TEMPO, TJH0841), Sep 2026)
• The share rose from 1.8% in 2010 to 2.8% in 2016. (INS (TEMPO, TJH0841), Sep 2026)
• Hotels and restaurants had 222,900 employees in 2024, up from 202,500 in 2019 and 111,600 in 2010. (INS (TEMPO, TJJ0841), Sep 2026)
• The EU Labour Force Survey counts 238,200 people working in accommodation and food services in Romania in 2025, 49,000 of them in accommodation: 3.1% of all employment, against 4.9% across the EU-27. (Eurostat, Oct 2026)
• Travel agencies and tour operators employed 15.9 thousand people in Romania in 2025. (Eurostat, Oct 2026)
• Accommodation and food services produced 5,410.8 million euros of gross value added in 2025, provisional, out of 345,143.6 million for the whole economy. (Eurostat, Nov 2026)
• In 2019 the industry produced 4,753.4 million euros, about 2.4% of gross value added, a larger share than in 2025. (Eurostat, Nov 2026)

The share of tourism in GDP is the figure INS publishes as one of Romania's sustainable development indicators; we could not open its method note, so it should not be compared with industry estimates of total impact. Gross value added for accommodation and food services covers hotels and restaurants, which also serve residents, and is not a tourism measure. INS counts employees only; the Labour Force Survey counts all employed people, so the two differ. The shares of gross value added and employment are our calculations from Eurostat values.

How does Romania compare with other EU countries?

Romania is a mid-sized EU destination by nights and the one that relies most on its own residents. Foreign demand is growing faster than the EU average in 2026, and Romanians travel less than any other EU population.

1. 1 Malta 94.3%
2. 2 EU-27 48.9%
3. 3 Poland 19.3%
4. 4 Germany 18.9%
5. 5 Romania 17.9%

• Romania recorded 29.7 million nights in tourist accommodation in 2025, 0.9% of the EU-27 total of 3.14 billion, 17th of the 27 countries and just ahead of Bulgaria (28.8 million). (Eurostat, Nov 2026)
• Non-residents spent 48.9% of all nights across the EU-27; the next-lowest shares after Romania were Germany (18.9%) and Poland (19.3%), and Malta was highest at 94.3%. (Eurostat, Nov 2026)
• On Eurostat's count Romania had 29,889,894 nights in 2019, so 2025 was still slightly below that level. (Eurostat, Nov 2026)
• Foreign guests' nights in Romania rose from 3,444,498 in January to August 2025 to 3,804,262 in the same months of 2026, four times the EU-27 growth of 2.5%. (Eurostat, Nov 2026)
• Bulgaria (29.19%) and Italy (40.21%) have the next-lowest rates of tourism participation; Romania's rate was 25.19% in 2014 and 28.60% in 2019. (Eurostat, Oct 2026)
• Romanians spent an average of 308.44 euros per overnight trip in 2025, against 534.07 euros across the EU-27; per night abroad they spent slightly more, 139.59 euros against 135.76. (Eurostat, Oct 2026)

Eurostat's totals for Romania use INS data but differ slightly from INS's annual figures because of coverage, so they appear only in this comparison; INS figures are used for Romania elsewhere on the page. Shares, ranks and growth rates are our calculations from Eurostat counts. Participation covers trips for personal purposes by residents aged 15 and over. Spending is in current euros and not adjusted for price levels.

Which parts of Romania get the most visitors?

Bucharest is the main gateway for foreign guests, while the Black Sea county of Constanța takes the most nights. Among the eight development regions, Centru in Transylvania has the most arrivals, and Sud-Est, with the coast and the Danube Delta, the most nights.

1. 1 Centru 3.25m
2. 2 Sud-Est 2.38m
3. 3 Bucuresti-Ilfov 2.29m
4. 4 Nord-Vest 1.87m
5. 5 Nord-Est 1.45m
6. 6 Sud-Muntenia 1.06m
7. 7 Vest 1.02m
8. 8 Sud-Vest Oltenia 942,135

• Bucharest's 2025 arrivals were up 2.9% on 2,005,391 in 2024, and 1,120,681 (54%) were foreign guests, about 43% of all foreign arrivals in Romania. (INS (TEMPO, TUR104B), Apr 2026)
• Bucharest recorded 4,171,380 nights in 2025, 2,591,545 of them by foreign guests, 48% of all foreign nights in Romania. (INS (TEMPO, TUR105D), Apr 2026)
• Constanța county recorded 5,560,369 nights in 2025, 18% of Romania's total and the most of any county. (INS (TEMPO, TUR105D), Apr 2026)
• Constanța had 1,812,038 arrivals, only 56,044 of them foreign. (INS (TEMPO, TUR104B), Apr 2026)
• Brașov county had 1,453,671 arrivals in 2025, down from 1,562,294 in 2024, with 207,246 foreign arrivals. (INS (TEMPO, TUR104B), Apr 2026)
• Cluj county had 698,363 arrivals (154,592 foreign) and Sibiu 628,805, up 8.5%; Sibiu's foreign share of 28% was the highest of the big tourism counties outside Bucharest. (INS (TEMPO, TUR104B), Apr 2026)
• Suceava county, home of the painted monasteries of Bucovina, had 543,053 arrivals, down from 572,160, with 58,991 foreign arrivals. (INS (TEMPO, TUR104B), Apr 2026)
• The Sud-Est region recorded 6,680,563 nights in 2025 and Centru 6,244,854. (INS (TEMPO, TUR105D), Apr 2026)

County figures cover every locality in the county, so Brașov includes Poiana Brașov and Bran, and Constanța includes the city and the coast resorts. Bucharest is the municipality; the Bucuresti-Ilfov region in the chart adds the surrounding county. Shares are our calculations from INS's annual tables, which cover accommodation with 5 or more bed places.

Do visitors choose Romania's cities, coast, mountains or spas?

Cities take the most guests, and the Black Sea coast and spa resorts keep them longest. Mountain resorts lost ground in 2025, and the Danube Delta is small in accommodation terms. Foreign guests stay mostly in the cities, while the resorts depend on Romanians.

1. 1 Bucharest and county capitals 11.33m
2. 2 Coast resorts 5.19m
3. 3 Mountain resorts 4.90m
4. 4 Spa resorts 4.22m
5. 5 Danube Delta 336,588

• Bucharest and the county capitals had 6,405,861 arrivals in 2025. (INS (TEMPO, TUR104C), Apr 2026)
• They took 11,331,117 nights, 37% of the national total, and 78% of all foreign nights. (INS (TEMPO, TUR105C), Apr 2026)
• Coast resorts, not counting Constanța city, had 1,639,644 arrivals in 2025, up from 1,564,149 in 2024 and 1,153,682 in 2019; the coverage widened in 2021. (INS (TEMPO, TUR104C), Apr 2026)
• Coast resorts recorded 5,189,411 nights, and foreign guests spent only 113,091 of them. (INS (TEMPO, TUR105C), Apr 2026)
• Spa resorts recorded 4,222,522 nights in 2025, 97% of them by Romanian residents. (INS (TEMPO, TUR105C), Apr 2026)
• Mountain resorts had 2,503,835 arrivals in 2025, down 8.4% from 2,734,281 in 2024. (INS (TEMPO, TUR104C), Apr 2026)
• Mountain resort nights fell to 4,902,873 from 5,383,366, though foreign guests' nights there rose from 346,501 to 375,684. (INS (TEMPO, TUR105C), Apr 2026)
• The Danube Delta area, including Tulcea city, had 154,125 arrivals in 2025, down from 164,793. (INS (TEMPO, TUR104C), Apr 2026)
• The Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve covers 580,000 hectares. (INS (TEMPO, PMI101A), Mar 2026)

These are INS destination types. Coast resorts leave out Constanța city, which sits with the county capitals, and the Danube Delta area includes Tulcea city. Stays are longest at spa resorts, about 3.6 nights per arrival, and coast resorts, about 3.2, on our calculation. Spa stays include state-subsidised treatment trips, which INS does not separate. The Delta count covers registered accommodation with 5 or more beds only, so boats and small guesthouses are left out. Shares are our calculations.

Which castles and museums draw the most visitors in Romania?

Romania's museums draw about 18 million visits a year, close to the 2019 level. Brașov county, home to Bran Castle, draws more museum visitors than Bucharest, and the castle towns of Bran, Sinaia and Hunedoara lead the localities.

1. 1 Bran 928,346
2. 2 Sinaia 490,448
3. 3 Hunedoara 401,192
4. 4 Sighișoara 198,893

• Museums and public collections received 18,089,603 visits in 2025, down from 19,107,498 in 2023 and 18,431,158 in 2024. (INS (TEMPO, ART113B), Jun 2026)
• There were 18,197,586 museum visits in 2019 and 7,939,266 in 2020. (INS (TEMPO, ART113B), Jun 2026)
• Brașov county's museums drew 2,663,927 visitors in 2025, more than Bucharest's 2,437,383. (INS (TEMPO, ART113B), Jun 2026)
• Iași county followed with 1,144,170 museum visitors, Prahova with 1,079,872 and Sibiu with 1,060,234, down from 1,673,206 in 2019. (INS (TEMPO, ART113B), Jun 2026)
• The museums in Bran had 890,501 visitors in 2024 and 909,283 in 2019. (INS (TEMPO, ART113A), Jun 2026)
• All the museums in Sinaia, including Peleș Castle, had 490,448 visitors in 2025, up from 399,675 in 2024. (INS (TEMPO, ART113A), Jun 2026)
• The museums in Hunedoara, home of Corvin Castle, had 401,192 visitors in 2025; those in Sighișoara had 198,893, below 286,829 in 2019. (INS (TEMPO, ART113A), Jun 2026)

INS counts visits to museums and public collections, residents and foreigners together. The figures for Bran, Sinaia, Hunedoara and Sighișoara cover all the museums in each place. Bran Castle, Peleș Castle and Corvin Castle are the main museums there, but other museums are included. The castles' operators do not publish audited counts that we could find.

Where do visitors stay in Romania?

Hotels hold the most beds and take most foreign guests, but Romania also has thousands of small guesthouses and holiday flats. The number of establishments counted has grown fast since 2019, largely because INS widened its count in 2021.

• Hotels 207,994
• Rented apartments and rooms 86,557
• Agritourism guesthouses 61,024
• All other types 108,779

• Romania had 14,325 tourist accommodation establishments with 464,354 bed places on 31 July 2025, up from 13,538 establishments and 449,928 beds in 2024. (INS (TEMPO, TUR101D and TUR102D), Nov 2025)
• In 2019 there were 8,402 establishments and 356,562 beds. Leaving out rented apartments and rooms, counted from 2021, 2025 had 9,357 establishments and 377,797 beds. (INS (TEMPO, TUR101D and TUR102D), Nov 2025)
• Rented apartments and rooms numbered 4,968 units with 86,557 beds in 2025, up from 4,411 units and 76,878 beds in 2024. (INS (TEMPO, TUR101D and TUR102D), Nov 2025)
• There were 3,668 agritourism guesthouses with 61,024 beds, up from 2,800 and 49,053 in 2019. (INS (TEMPO, TUR101D and TUR102D), Nov 2025)
• Bucharest had 366 establishments with 27,979 beds, Constanța county 1,752 with 122,328 and Brașov county 1,395 with 36,334. (INS (TEMPO, TUR101D and TUR102D), Nov 2025)
• Hotels supplied 45% of beds across 1,633 hotels: 49 five-star, 456 four-star and 890 three-star. (INS (TEMPO, TUR101B and TUR102B), Nov 2025)
• Coast resorts held 117,245 beds, a quarter of the national total and more than Bucharest and all county capitals combined (105,837). (INS (TEMPO, TUR101B and TUR102B), Nov 2025)
• Foreign guests made 355,858 of the 696,049 arrivals at five-star hotels in 2025, just over half, and 2,068,412 foreign arrivals, 79% of the total, were in hotels. (INS (TEMPO, TUR104D), Apr 2026)
• Agritourism guesthouses had 1,179,098 arrivals in 2025 and tourist guesthouses 915,363. (INS (TEMPO, TUR104D), Apr 2026)

Capacity is the stock existing on 31 July each year in establishments with 5 or more bed places. INS counts registered accommodation only, not platform listings, so most informal holiday lets are outside these figures. Rented apartments and rooms were added in 2021 and explain most of the growth since 2019. The "all other types" slice and the shares are our calculation from INS's totals.

How do visitors get to Romania?

Air traffic in Romania was well above its 2019 level in 2025. Bucharest Henri Coandă (Otopeni) handles about six in ten passengers, and Cluj is the busiest regional airport. Before Schengen entry, most foreign visitors crossed the border by road.

1. 1 Bucharest Otopeni 17.00m
2. 2 Cluj 3.55m
3. 3 Iași 2.24m
4. 4 Timișoara 1.46m
5. 5 Sibiu 694,215

• Airports handled 26,000,821 passengers in 2024 and 23,193,313 in 2019; 14,290,666 passengers boarded flights in 2025. (INS (TEMPO, TRN133A), Apr 2026)
• Bucharest Henri Coandă (Otopeni) carried 16,998,844 passengers in 2025, up 6.6% from 15,939,883, and 16,000,443 of them were on international flights. (Eurostat, Nov 2026)
• Cluj Avram Iancu airport counted 3,582,134 passengers in 2025, up from 3,266,447 in 2024 and 2,921,392 in 2019, and expects 3,650,000 in 2026. (Cluj Avram Iancu Airport, Feb 2026)
• Cluj passed 3,000,000 passengers for 2026 on 19 October, the fourth year in a row above that mark. (Cluj Avram Iancu Airport, Oct 2026)
• Iași airport carried 2,242,921 passengers in 2025, up from 1,312,611 in 2019. (Eurostat, Nov 2026)
• Timișoara carried 1,458,022 passengers, up 10.2% but below 1,594,674 in 2019, and Sibiu 694,215, up 21%. (Eurostat, Nov 2026)
• In 2019, 9,552 thousand foreign visitors entered Romania by road, 2,936 thousand by air, 185 thousand by sea and 142 thousand by rail. (INS (TEMPO, TUR107A), Sep 2026)

Airport passengers count everyone boarding or landing, residents included, so a return trip counts twice; they are not a count of tourists. Eurostat's passengers carried leave out direct transit, so its Cluj figure (3,547,053) is below the airport's own. The Otopeni share is our calculation against INS's national total. Border arrivals by mode include day visitors and transit; 2019 is the last year before Schengen entry changed what is counted.

How much do Romanians travel?

Most Romanians who travel stay in the country, often with family, and go by car. Trips abroad have grown fast: Italy and Bulgaria lead in the household survey, while Turkey and Egypt lead package holidays sold by Romanian travel agencies.

1. 1 Italy 489,439
2. 2 Bulgaria 419,018
3. 3 Greece 308,838
4. 4 Austria 266,223
5. 5 Spain 180,325
6. 6 Germany 144,118
7. 7 Turkey 115,323
8. 8 Hungary 72,387

• Romanian residents made 21.61 million overnight trips in 2025: 19.31 million within Romania and 2.30 million abroad. (Eurostat, Oct 2026)
• Trips abroad rose from 773,039 in 2012 to 1,573,973 in 2019. (Eurostat, Oct 2026)
• Holidays made up 12.00 million trips in 2025, visits to friends and relatives 8.82 million and business trips only 390,778. (Eurostat, Oct 2026)
• Of the domestic trips, 10.57 million used non-rented accommodation, 9.94 million of them free stays with relatives or friends; 5.18 million used hotels or similar. (Eurostat, Oct 2026)
• Private cars carried 14.54 million domestic trips, coaches 2.79 million and rail 1.91 million; 55% of trips abroad were by air. (Eurostat, Oct 2026)
• Residents spent 6.66 billion euros on overnight trips in 2025, against 3.35 billion in 2019: 4.79 billion at home and 1.88 billion abroad, or 816.60 euros per trip abroad. (Eurostat, Oct 2026)
• Romanian travel agencies organised trips abroad for 1,501,044 tourists in 2025, up from 1,007,298 in 2019. (INS (TEMPO, TUR109A), Jul 2026)
• On agency package trips the top destinations were Turkey (346,580), Egypt (254,964), Bulgaria (249,509) and Greece (187,185); Egypt had only 39,192 in 2019. (INS (TEMPO, TUR109C), Jul 2026)
• INS counted 23.066 million departures of Romanians at the borders in 2019. Departures by air rose from 2.416 million in 2010 to 7.960 million in 2023. (INS (TEMPO, TUR108A), Sep 2026)

Trips come from INS's household survey as published by Eurostat: journeys of at least one night by residents aged 15 and over, including stays with family and friends, so they are far more than INS's accommodation count of Romanian guests. Spending is in current euros, and Romania had high inflation in 2022 to 2024. Agency figures cover trips organised by Romanian agencies only. Border departures count crossings, including Romanians working abroad; after air and sea Schengen entry in March 2024 later years are not comparable. The air share is our calculation.

How safe is Romania for visitors?

Romania's recorded offence rate fell in 2025, and its homicide rate is well below its 2019 level. These are figures for everyone in the country; there is no official series for crime against tourists.

• Police solved or referred to prosecutors 1,760 offences per 100,000 inhabitants in 2025, down from 1,872 in 2024 and 1,819 in 2019. (INS (TEMPO, JUS107B), Oct 2026)
• The rate was 3,773 per 100,000 in Bucharest, 2,370 in Brașov county, 1,723 in Constanța, 1,464 in Cluj and 1,427 in Sibiu. (INS (TEMPO, JUS107B), Oct 2026)
• Romania's intentional homicide rate was 0.79 per 100,000 inhabitants in 2024, down from 1.31 in 2019. (Eurostat, Apr 2026)

The offence rate covers all offence types, including economic and traffic offences, per resident. Offences are recorded where cases are handled, so capitals and business centres score higher; it is not a measure of risk to tourists. Recorded crime is not comparable between countries because of legal and recording differences.

When is the best time to visit Romania?

July and August are the peak, when Romanian families head for the coast and the resorts fill up. Foreign visitors spread their trips more evenly, and May, June and September bring warm weather with far fewer guests. Winters are cold inland, and colder still in the mountains.

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Nights in Romanian tourist accommodation by month in 2025, provisional. August is the peak and March the low.

Period	Value
Jan	1.62m
Feb	1.58m
Mar	1.57m
Apr	1.72m
May	2.26m
Jun	2.84m
Jul	4.47m
Aug	5.12m
Sep	2.71m
Oct	2.26m
Nov	1.84m
Dec	1.71m

• August 2025 had 5,117,421 nights, 17% of the year's monthly total and more than three times February (1,575,013) or March (1,574,341). (INS (TEMPO, TUR105G), Oct 2026)
• Foreign guests' nights ranged only from 299,759 in February 2025 to 579,852 in August. (INS (TEMPO, TUR105G), Oct 2026)
• Calculated from INS's provisional monthly figures, 72% of Constanța county's 2025 nights fell in July and August; August alone had 2,154,509. (INS (TEMPO, TUR105G), Oct 2026)
• Bed occupancy ran from 22.5% in March 2025 to 43.7% in August; hotels reached 54.3% in August. (INS (TEMPO, TUR106D), Oct 2026)
• Occupancy reached 45.2% in August 2026, with hotels at 55.4%, below 52.1% in August 2019; the coverage widened in 2021, adding many small units. (INS (TEMPO, TUR106D), Oct 2026)
• Bucharest's average daily high is 30.4C in July and 30.6C in August, and 3.0C in January, when the average low is -5.0C; it gets 648.1mm of rain a year. (ANM (climate normals), 1991-2020)
• Constanța, on the coast, averages highs of 27.9C in July and August, with 331 hours of sunshine in July and only 468.1mm of rain a year. (ANM (climate normals), 1991-2020)
• Cluj-Napoca averages highs of 26.7C in July, 27.0C in August and 0.9C in January, with 94.8 days a year of 1mm or more of rain. (ANM (climate normals), 1991-2020)
• Sibiu, which stands in here for the mountain resorts, averages a high of 26.9C in July and a low of -6.6C in January, with 116 frost days a year. (ANM (climate normals), 1991-2020)
• Tulcea, the gateway to the Danube Delta, averages a high of 29.7C in July and 2,370.8 hours of sunshine a year. (ANM (climate normals), 1991-2020)
• ANM ranks 2025 as Romania's fourth-warmest year since 1901: the national mean of 10.9C was 1.1C above the 1991-2020 median. (ANM (annual climate report), 2026)
• Bucharest's hottest July day on record reached 42.4C on 5 July 2000; Romania's July record is 44.3C at Calafat on 24 July 2007. (ANM (July climate records), 2025)

Monthly nights come from INS's monthly survey of establishments with 10 or more bed places and are provisional; the shares are our calculation. Occupancy is INS's net use index of bed places, nights divided by bed-days in operation, not room occupancy. Climate values are ANM's 1991-2020 station normals as published in the WMO normals collection. There is no Brașov or Sinaia station in that set, so Sibiu stands in for the mountain resorts, which are colder at altitude.

Methodology and sources

Figures come from Romania's official producers. INS figures are taken from its TEMPO-Online database, and each source label gives the TEMPO matrix code (for example TUR104D) that identifies the table, so readers can open the same table from the linked page. The National Bank of Romania (BNR) supplies travel receipts and spending abroad, each year from its own annual report or release. Eurostat supplies EU comparisons, arrivals by country, residents' trips, jobs, value added, airport traffic and homicide, all from data Romania reports. Cluj Avram Iancu airport supplies its own traffic, and ANM supplies climate, with its 1991-2020 station normals as published in the WMO collection archived by NOAA. INS totals are used for Romania and Eurostat totals only in EU comparisons; Eurostat's different vintage of travel receipts is not used. Where 2019 and later years are compared, we note that INS widened its accommodation count in 2021. Year-to-date totals, shares and growth rates marked as ours are our calculations from published figures. Provisional figures are labelled. The page is reviewed monthly and the date is shown at the top.

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