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Rome Tourism Statistics for November 2026
Rome recorded a record 22.9 million tourist arrivals and 52.92 million tourist nights in 2025 by the city's own count, and 12 million of the arrivals came from abroad. The Jubilee year brought 33.5 million pilgrims to the city. No spending figure is published for Rome alone, but international visitors spent €10.25 billion in the Lazio region in 2025, up 19.2% on 2024.
How many tourists visit Rome, where they come from, where they stay and what they spend. The figures are compiled from official statistics, and full sources are listed at the bottom of the page. Headline numbers are for 2025, the Jubilee year and the most recent full year. Two official counts of tourists exist for the city and give different totals; both are shown and explained below. Spending figures cover the Lazio region, because none are published for the city alone.
Visitor numbers
Tourists visiting Rome
Rome recorded 22.9 million tourist arrivals in 2025 by the city's own count, 3.42% more than in 2024 and a record for the second year running. 12 million of the arrivals came from abroad. Tourists spent 52.92 million nights in the city, up 2.87%. Arrivals were well above the 19.45 million of 2019, the last year before the pandemic.
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| Period | Value | Note |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 19.45m | pre-pandemic |
| 2020 | 4.10m | pandemic |
| 2021 | 5.51m | |
| 2022 | 15.22m | |
| 2023 | 21.02m | |
| 2024 | 22.2m | record |
| 2025 | 22.9m | record |
Tourist arrivals in the city's accommodation by the city's own count, compiled by the regional tourism industry body, which collects its hotel data from a sample. 2019–2023 values are from the annual report of the city's public-services agency; 2024 and 2025 are from city announcements, published rounded to 0.1 million. The national survey of accommodation establishments, a full count, records lower totals: 13.48 million arrivals and 50.38 million nights in 2025. No city-wide count for 2026 has been published yet; hotel nights in the metropolitan area were 2.7% higher in January–February 2026 than a year earlier.
Visitor spending · Lazio region
What international visitors spend in Lazio
Rome publishes no official figure for what tourists spend in the city. The closest measure covers the Lazio region, which includes Rome: international visitors spent €10.25 billion there in 2025, up 19.2% on 2024. Nearly 60% of the increase came from Jubilee pilgrims. In January–June 2026 they spent €4.83 billion, against €4.98 billion in the same months of 2025 (provisional).
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| Period | Value | Note |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | €7.70bn | pre-pandemic |
| 2020 | €1.93bn | pandemic |
| 2021 | €2.12bn | |
| 2022 | €5.99bn | |
| 2023 | €8.13bn | |
| 2024 | €8.60bn | |
| 2025 | €10.25bn | Jubilee year |
Spending in the Lazio region by travellers resident abroad, from the border survey of international travellers; Italian tourists are not included. Values in euros, not adjusted for inflation. The region also includes destinations outside Rome, such as the coast and Viterbo, so this is not a figure for the city. 2019–2023 values are the sum of the published quarterly figures. 2026 figures are provisional.
Where they come from
Foreign arrivals by country, province of Rome
The United States is by far the largest foreign market. Guests resident in the United States made 2.33 million arrivals in the accommodation of the province of Rome in 2025, more than three times as many as guests from the United Kingdom (651,220). Spain, France and Germany follow, and China is the largest Asian market. Bars show 2025 arrivals; the muted figure is nights.
Arrivals in all accommodation in the province (metropolitan city) of Rome by country of residence, 2025, from the national survey of accommodation establishments. The city of Rome accounts for more than nine in ten of the province's foreign arrivals. Each check-in counts, so a guest who moves between two hotels counts twice. From 2025 the survey includes private rentals not run as a business, so the figures are not comparable with 2024.
Seasonality
When they visit
Rome is busy from spring to autumn. Nights in the city's accommodation peaked in July 2025 at 4.93 million, with May (4.82 million), October (4.71 million) and June (4.71 million) close behind. January was the quietest month (3.25 million). August is quieter than the months around it, at 3.75 million.
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| Period | Value | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Jan | 3.25m | quietest |
| Feb | 3.33m | |
| Mar | 4.18m | |
| Apr | 4.68m | |
| May | 4.82m | |
| Jun | 4.71m | |
| Jul | 4.93m | |
| Aug | 3.75m | |
| Sep | 4.18m | |
| Oct | 4.71m | |
| Nov | 3.82m | |
| Dec | 4.02m |
Nights in all accommodation in the city of Rome by month, 2025, from the national survey of accommodation establishments (50.38 million for the year, including private rentals not run as a business).
Top attractions
Most visited sites in Rome
The Colosseum archaeological park (the Colosseum, Roman Forum and Palatine Hill) is Rome's most visited paid site and Italy's most visited cultural site, with 14.73 million visits in 2024. The Vatican Museums, in Vatican City, received 6.93 million visitors in 2025, and the Pantheon 4.09 million in 2024. State sites have 2024 figures, the latest official counts; the other museums have 2025 figures.
The Colosseum park, the Pantheon and Castel Sant'Angelo are official counts for paid state-run sites in 2024; 2025 site-level figures had not been published at the time of review. The Vatican Museums, Capitoline Museums and Galleria Borghese figures are the museums' own 2025 counts as reported to an annual international survey of museum attendance.
Accommodation
Hotels & occupancy
The national survey of accommodation establishments recorded 50.38 million nights in Rome in 2025, 9.4% of the national total, and guests from abroad spent more than three-quarters of them. From 2025 the survey also covers private rentals not run as a business, so the total is not comparable with the 42.7 million nights of 2024. Hotels are counted the same way in both years: they recorded 29.16 million nights, up 1.6%, as nights by foreign guests rose 6.0% and nights by Italian guests fell 10.7%. The city had 419,238 bed-places in 2025, 147,514 of them in its 1,708 hotels.
Economic impact
Tourism in Rome's economy
No official figure for tourist spending in Rome alone is published. In the Lazio region, which includes Rome, international visitors spent €10.25 billion in 2025, up 19.2% on 2024, and spent 73.04 million nights, up 27.8%. Nearly 60% of the rise in spending came from pilgrims who travelled for the Jubilee. Foreign visitors accounted for 6.9% of all consumer spending in Lazio in 2024, against 4.3% across Italy.
Lazio figures cover travellers resident abroad and come from the border survey of international travellers; they are nominal. The Jubilee estimate counts only the 1.4 million foreign visitors who said they would not have come to Italy without it; Rome was the main destination for over 90% of them. A further 2.2 million foreign visitors took part in Jubilee events but would have come anyway.
At a glance
Fast facts
- 51.3m Passengers at Fiumicino airport (2025, record)
- 9.4% Rome's share of all tourist nights in Italy (2025)
- 62% Jubilee pilgrims who came from Europe (2025)
- 1.4m Foreign visitors who came to Italy for the Jubilee (2025)
- 2.33m US arrivals in the province's accommodation (2025)
- 3.6m Passengers through the port of Civitavecchia (2025)
Questions
Frequently asked questions
How many tourists visit Rome each year?
Rome recorded a record 22.9 million tourist arrivals in 2025 by the city's own count, up 3.42% on the 22.2 million of 2024, and tourists spent 52.92 million nights in the city. 12 million of the arrivals came from abroad. The national survey of accommodation establishments, which counts differently, recorded 13.48 million arrivals and 50.38 million nights in the city in 2025.
How many pilgrims came to Rome for the 2025 Jubilee?
The Jubilee organisers counted 33,475,369 pilgrims taking part in Jubilee events in Rome during the Holy Year, from 185 countries, which is about 33.5 million. 62% came from Europe, and Italy sent the most pilgrims. A separate survey of international travellers found that 1.4 million foreign visitors came to Italy because of the Jubilee, and Rome was the main destination for over 90% of them.
Where do Rome's foreign tourists come from?
The United States is the largest market by far. Guests from the United States made 2.33 million arrivals in the accommodation of the province of Rome in 2025 and spent 9.25 million nights there. The United Kingdom (651,220 arrivals), Spain (628,973), France (584,415) and Germany (523,029) follow. China is the largest Asian market, with 435,112 arrivals.
How much do tourists spend in Rome?
No official spending figure is published for the city alone. International visitors spent €10.25 billion in the Lazio region, which includes Rome, in 2025, up 19.2% on 2024. Nearly 60% of the increase came from Jubilee pilgrims. In January–June 2026 their spending in Lazio was €4.83 billion, against €4.98 billion a year earlier (provisional).
What is the most visited attraction in Rome?
The Colosseum archaeological park, which includes the Roman Forum and the Palatine Hill, with 14.73 million visits in 2024, the latest official count. It is also the most visited cultural site in Italy. The Vatican Museums received 6.93 million visitors in 2025 and the Pantheon 4.09 million in 2024.
When is the busiest time to visit Rome?
July was the busiest month of 2025, with 4.93 million nights in the city's accommodation, followed by May (4.82 million), October and June (4.71 million each). January was the quietest month (3.25 million), and August (3.75 million) is quieter than the months on either side of it.
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Methodology & sources
This page compiles publicly available official statistics; the sources for every figure are listed below. The main caveats:
- City totals for 2025 are from Roma Capitale's announcement of January 2026, based on data from the Ente Bilaterale Turismo del Lazio (EBTL). Accommodation, market and monthly figures are ISTAT municipal and provincial data for 2025, released in July 2026. Lazio spending is from Banca d'Italia (2025 final; January–June 2026 not yet final). There is no city-wide count for 2026 yet; the 2.7% rise in hotel nights in January–February 2026 is EBTL data for the metropolitan city, quoted by Banca d'Italia.
- The city's count (22.9M arrivals, 52.92M nights in 2025) is published by Roma Capitale from EBTL data; EBTL does not publish its full method, and Banca d'Italia describes its hotel data as sample-based. ISTAT's survey of accommodation establishments is a full monthly count of check-ins and nights reported by every establishment, and gives lower totals (13.48M arrivals, 50.38M nights). ISTAT counts check-ins, so a tourist who changes hotel counts twice, and day visitors are not counted. The visitors chart combines 2019–2023 values from ACoS, the city's public-services agency, with the city's 2024 and 2025 figures; the city's published growth rates for 2024 (+5.63% arrivals, +4.5% nights) match the ACoS 2023 base.
- From 2025 ISTAT also counts private rentals not run as a business. Totals and non-hotel figures for 2025 (nights, arrivals, bed-places, markets) are therefore not comparable with earlier years; the 2024 total was 42,705,319 nights (73.3% foreign). Hotel figures are comparable, and changes are shown only for hotels. Market figures are for the province of Rome, because ISTAT does not publish nationality data by municipality.
- No official tourism spending figure exists for the city. Lazio figures are Banca d'Italia estimates from its border survey of international travellers, by region visited; 2019–2023 annual values are sums of the published quarters. The Jubilee pilgrim count (33,475,369 from 185 countries) is the Holy See's total of participants in Jubilee events, presented on 5 January 2026; its counting method was not published, and it is not comparable with tourist arrivals. Banca d'Italia's 1.4M estimate counts foreign visitors who would not otherwise have come to Italy.
- State site figures are the Ministry of Culture's 2024 counts (identical to those on the Italy page); 2025 site-level figures had not been published at the time of review. Vatican Museums, Capitoline Museums and Galleria Borghese figures for 2025 are as reported by the museums to The Art Newspaper's annual survey. Airport figures (Aeroporti di Roma) count passenger movements, including residents and transfer passengers. The Civitavecchia figure counts all port passengers, including ferries.
Primary sources
- Roma Capitale (Turismo Roma): Turismo da record a Roma nel 2025 : City announcement of 2025 tourist arrivals (22.9M, 12M from abroad) and nights (52.92M), +3.42% and +2.87% on 2024, from data of the Ente Bilaterale del Turismo del Lazio (EBTL). Page listed from 25 Jan 2026.
- Roma Capitale (Turismo Roma): Turismo: Roma festeggia il record storico di presenze : City announcement of 2024 tourist arrivals (22.2M) and nights (51.4M), +5.63% and +4.5% on 2023, from EBTL data. Page listed from 21 Jan 2025.
- ACoS Roma Capitale (Agenzia per il controllo e la qualità dei servizi pubblici locali): Relazione annuale 2024, cap. 9 Turismo : Tavola 9.1: tourist arrivals and nights in Rome, 2019–2023, compiled from ISTAT, Regione Lazio and Roma Capitale data.
- ISTAT: Movimento dei clienti negli esercizi ricettivi per comune e per provincia e residenza dei clienti : Arrivals and nights by municipality (Roma, 058091), annual 2014–2025 and monthly, by hotel and other accommodation and residence of guests; province of Rome by country of residence. From 2025 includes private rentals not run as a business (flag f). Files dated 15 Jul 2026.
- ISTAT: Capacità degli esercizi ricettivi per tipo di alloggio e per comune : Establishments, bed-places and rooms by type of accommodation, municipality of Roma, 2002–2025 (file dated 16 Jul 2026).
- ISTAT: Annuario statistico italiano 2025, cap. 19 Turismo : Prospetto 19.6, top 50 municipalities by nights in 2024: Roma 42,705,319 (9.2% of Italy), +14.6% on 2023, +37.8% on 2019.
- ISTAT: Statistica Today, I flussi turistici nel 2024 : Foreign share of nights in accommodation in Rome in 2024 (73.3%), published March 2026.
- ISTAT: Dal Grand tour al turismo di massa : Rome's share of all nights in Italy in 2025 (9.4%) and foreign share of nights (over three-quarters), published 17 Jul 2026.
- Banca d'Italia: Turismo internazionale, quarterly tables by region visited : Table T2-S, Lazio: foreign travellers' spending, travellers and nights, 2024–2025 final (IV quarter 2025 file) and January–June 2025–2026 (II quarter 2026 file, published 11 Sep 2026, not final). 2019–2023 from the 1997–2025 time series (table TS2-S-S, sum of quarters).
- Banca d'Italia: L'economia del Lazio, Economie regionali n. 12, 2026 : Annual regional report on 2025 (June 2026): Jubilee effect on foreign nights (+27.8%) and spending (+19.2%), hotel nights in the metropolitan city (EBTL data), airport traffic (table a2.5, Aeroporti di Roma data), port passengers, foreign visitors' share of consumption in 2024.
- Banca d'Italia: Indagine sul turismo internazionale : 2025 results (26 Jun 2026), box on international travellers who came for the Jubilee: 1.4M visitors, €1.6bn spending, Rome the main destination for over 90%.
- Aeroporti di Roma: Sistema aeroportuale romano : 2025 passenger traffic: Rome airport system 55.3M, Fiumicino 51.3M (record), Ciampino 4M.
- Vatican News: Jubilee round-up, Archbishop Fisichella : Final Jubilee 2025 figures presented at the Holy See Press Office on 5 Jan 2026: 33,475,369 pilgrims from 185 countries, 62% from Europe (exact count from the Croatian edition of the same report).
- Ministero della Cultura: Ufficio di Statistica : Musei, monumenti e aree archeologiche statali, Rilevazione 2024, Tavola 8: top 30 paid state sites by visitors (published 12 May 2025).
- The Art Newspaper: Visitor Figures 2025, art museum attendance worldwide : Special report no. 388, April 2026: 2025 visitors as reported by the museums (Vatican Museums, Musei Capitolini, Galleria Borghese).