Top 10 Most Visited Cities in the World

The cities ranked here use Euromonitor international arrivals for 2025, and they are not a silent substitute for that year's composite city-index scores. Rank follows Euromonitor International's compilation of international arrivals for 2025, published with the Top 100 City Destinations Index 2025 in December 2025, a dated arrivals table rather than that year's composite city-index scores ^[1][2][3]. Bangkok is first, with 30.3 million international arrivals, a figure confirmed by the Tourism Authority of Thailand in its 18 December 2025 account of the same Euromonitor release ^[1][3]. Hong Kong is second, with 23.2 million, and London is third, with 22.7 million, the leading European city on the same arrivals table ^[2]. Macao, at 20.4 million, Istanbul, at 19.7 million, Dubai, at 19.5 million, Mecca, at 18.7 million, Antalya, at 18.6 million, Paris, at 18.3 million, and Kuala Lumpur, at 17.3 million, complete the ten ^[2]. Paris topped Euromonitor's overall composite city-index chart in the same release and was only ninth on international arrivals; this article does not treat the composite score as a silent substitute for the arrivals rank ^[2].

The figures are international arrivals as compiled by Euromonitor for 2025, not domestic trips, not bed-nights, and not a later 2026 arrivals yearbook ^[2][3]. A city such as Mecca can include religious travel in an international-arrivals total, and that is still the official arrivals cell in this method, not a leisure-only recast. Time Out's accompanying prose once rounded Hong Kong at 23.3 million, but the same article's arrivals table, and the wider published list, give 23.2 million; this article stays with the 23.2 million table figure ^[2]. A later official Euromonitor arrivals table for 2026 will belong in a revision of the ranking, not as an unlabelled splice into the 2025 cells.

Key Facts

The ten below are the Euromonitor 2025 international-arrivals leaders: Bangkok 30.3 million, Hong Kong 23.2 million, London 22.7 million, Macao 20.4 million, Istanbul 19.7 million, Dubai 19.5 million, Mecca 18.7 million, Antalya 18.6 million, Paris 18.3 million, and Kuala Lumpur 17.3 million ^[2][3]. Rank 1 is the outstanding official arrivals total, which is also the only city in the ten above 30 million international arrivals in that compilation.

The same Euromonitor release projected that the world's leading cities would collectively welcome 702 million international trips in 2025, about 46 percent of global inbound tourism, a wider official backdrop rather than a substitute for any one cell ^[3]. International arrivals can include short stays and religious travel, and those trips still count in this method when Euromonitor includes them; they are not silently stripped to invent a leisure-only ten. The table is the official spine: one dated arrivals compilation, the composite index labelled separately, and no unofficial 23.3 million Hong Kong rounding is smuggled in as the table fact.

Most Visited Cities at a Glance

1. Bangkok

Bangkok recorded 30.3 million international arrivals in the Euromonitor 2025 arrivals compilation, first on that dated table, a figure the Tourism Authority of Thailand confirmed in its 18 December 2025 account of the same release ^[1][2][3]. The figure is an international-arrivals total, not the composite city-index score, and not a domestic-trip count. This article records the official 30.3 million. It is the outstanding official arrivals total in this ten.

It is first as the outstanding official 30.3 million arrival fact, and the documentary centre of this ten ^[1][2][3]. A later official Euromonitor arrivals table will belong in a revision of the cell.

The Euromonitor 2025 arrivals compilation, as reported by Time Out and the Tourism Authority of Thailand, is the source ^[2][3].

2. Hong Kong

Hong Kong recorded 23.2 million international arrivals in the same 2025 table, second on that dated list ^[2]. A 23.3 million rounding in accompanying prose is not used here as a silent replacement for the table figure. This article records the official 23.2 million. The figure is an international-arrivals total, not a population multiple presented as a second official count.

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It is second as the outstanding official 23.2 million arrival fact, and a necessary counterpart to Bangkok and London ^[2]. A later official Euromonitor arrivals table will belong in a revision of the cell.

The Euromonitor 2025 arrivals table is the source ^[2].

3. London

London recorded 22.7 million international arrivals in the same 2025 table, third on that dated list and the leading European city on arrivals ^[2]. The figure is an international-arrivals total, not the composite city-index score, in which London stood lower, and not a United Kingdom national-tourism total. This article records the official 22.7 million.

It is third as the outstanding official 22.7 million arrival fact, and a necessary counterpart to Hong Kong and Macao ^[2]. A later official Euromonitor arrivals table will belong in a revision of the cell.

The Euromonitor 2025 arrivals table is the source ^[2].

4. Macao

Macao recorded 20.4 million international arrivals in the same 2025 table, fourth on that dated list ^[2]. The figure is an international-arrivals total as compiled by Euromonitor, not a domestic-trip count, and not a gaming-revenue ranking presented as a visitor total. This article records the official 20.4 million. It stands below London and above Istanbul.

It is fourth as the outstanding official 20.4 million arrival fact, and a necessary counterpart to London and Istanbul ^[2]. A later official Euromonitor arrivals table will belong in a revision of the cell.

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The Euromonitor 2025 arrivals table is the source ^[2].

5. Istanbul

Istanbul recorded 19.7 million international arrivals in the same 2025 table, fifth on that dated list ^[2]. The figure is an international-arrivals total, not a national Turkey total, and not a silent combination with Antalya. This article records the official 19.7 million. It stands just above Dubai.

It is fifth as the outstanding official 19.7 million arrival fact, and a necessary counterpart to Dubai and to Antalya later in the ten ^[2]. A later official Euromonitor arrivals table will belong in a revision of the cell.

The Euromonitor 2025 arrivals table is the source ^[2].

6. Dubai

Dubai recorded 19.5 million international arrivals in the same 2025 table, sixth on that dated list ^[2]. The figure is an international-arrivals total, not an emirate-wide United Arab Emirates total, and not a later official Dubai Department of Economy and Tourism yearbook used as a silent replacement for the Euromonitor cell. This article records the official 19.5 million.

It is sixth as the outstanding official 19.5 million arrival fact, and a necessary counterpart to Istanbul and Mecca ^[2]. A later official Euromonitor arrivals table will belong in a revision of the cell.

The Euromonitor 2025 arrivals table is the source ^[2].

7. Mecca

Mecca recorded 18.7 million international arrivals in the same 2025 table, seventh on that dated list ^[2]. The figure is an international-arrivals total as compiled by Euromonitor, which can include religious travel, and it is not recast here as a leisure-only count. This article records the official 18.7 million. It stands just above Antalya.

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It is seventh as the outstanding official 18.7 million arrival fact, and a necessary counterpart to Antalya ^[2]. A later official Euromonitor arrivals table will belong in a revision of the cell.

The Euromonitor 2025 arrivals table is the source ^[2].

8. Antalya

Antalya recorded 18.6 million international arrivals in the same 2025 table, eighth on that dated list ^[2]. The figure is an international-arrivals total, not a national Turkey total, and not a silent combination with Istanbul. This article records the official 18.6 million. It stands just above Paris on arrivals, even though Paris led the composite index in the same release.

It is eighth as the outstanding official 18.6 million arrival fact, and a necessary counterpart to Mecca and Paris ^[2]. A later official Euromonitor arrivals table will belong in a revision of the cell.

The Euromonitor 2025 arrivals table is the source ^[2].

9. Paris

Paris recorded 18.3 million international arrivals in the same 2025 table, ninth on that dated arrivals list, even though it topped Euromonitor's overall composite city-index chart in the same release ^[2]. This article records the official 18.3 million arrivals figure and keeps the composite-index first place labelled as a different ranking. The figure is not a France national-tourism total, and not a domestic-trip count.

It is ninth as the outstanding official 18.3 million arrival fact, and a necessary counterpart to Antalya and Kuala Lumpur ^[2]. A later official Euromonitor arrivals table will belong in a revision of the cell.

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The Euromonitor 2025 arrivals table is the source ^[2].

10. Kuala Lumpur

Kuala Lumpur recorded 17.3 million international arrivals in the same 2025 table, tenth on that dated list ^[2]. The figure is an international-arrivals total, not a Malaysia national-tourism total, and not a composite city-index score. This article records the official 17.3 million. A later city just outside the published top ten is not added here as a silent eleventh rank.

It is tenth as the outstanding official 17.3 million arrival fact, and a necessary counterpart to Paris ^[2]. A later official Euromonitor arrivals table will belong in a revision of the cell.

The Euromonitor 2025 arrivals table is the source ^[2].

Conclusion

A 2026 most-visited-cities list still has to keep the Euromonitor 2025 international-arrivals spine: Bangkok at 30.3 million, Hong Kong at 23.2 million, and London at 22.7 million, and it has to refuse to treat the composite city-index chart, in which Paris stood first, as a silent substitute for the arrivals rank ^[1][2][3]. Macao, Istanbul, Dubai, Mecca, Antalya, Paris, and Kuala Lumpur complete the same dated ten. The useful habit is one arrivals compilation, one year, and a refusal to mix a composite score or a prose rounding of 23.3 million into the official 23.2 million Hong Kong cell.

The same method also has to keep Mecca's 18.7 million as an arrivals cell that can include religious travel, keep Antalya and Istanbul as separate official cities rather than a combined Turkish total, and keep Macao's 20.4 million as an international-arrivals figure rather than a domestic-trip or gaming-revenue proxy ^[2]. Those distinctions are part of the 2025 spine, not optional footnotes. A later official city just below 17.3 million will belong outside this ten until a later yearbook moves the last cell.

A later official Euromonitor arrivals table will belong in a revision of the ranking; it will not change the method. Those labelled 2025 arrival totals are the spine of the list, and they will still be the spine after a later yearbook has restated a cell in a later year. The composite index can still be useful as a different ranking of policy, infrastructure, and appeal, and it will remain a different ranking even if a later release again places Paris first on that chart and ninth on arrivals ^[2][3].