The Canary Islands continues to add tourist records and in the first five months of 2025 it accumulates 6,761,697 foreign visitors, 4.1 percent more than in the same period of 2024, which until now has been the year with the highest number of foreign travelers in the historical series.
According to data released this Wednesday by the National Institute of Statistics (INE), only during the month of May chose the Canary Islands as a holiday destination 1,076,379 foreign tourists -3.7 percent more than in 2024-, so the archipelago already has 23 consecutive months above one million international visitors per month and predictably the data for June will exceed those of May as has been usual in the archipelago.
Between January and May of 2024, a year that ended with a record when 15.22 million foreign tourists arrived on the islands, 6,493,150 international visitors chose the Canary Islands as a destination, which was a historical record at that time.
This 2025 has continued to shatter international tourism figures, and the more than 6.7 million foreign tourists are a new record in the first five months of the year, at a time when Canarian society and institutions are immersed in a reflection on the sustainability of the archipelago's main economic activity.
The INE also released its Tourist Expenditure Survey this Wednesday, according to which international visitors left 1,519 million euros on the islands in May alone, which is 4.4 percent more than in the same month last year.
The Canary Islands is the autonomous community in which foreign tourists have spent the most in the first five months of the year: a total of 10,308 million euros, 7 percent more than in the same period of 2024.
In the fifth month of the year, the average expenditure per tourist was set at 1,412 euros, 0.64 percent more than in May 2024, while the average daily expenditure stood at 196 euros, 3.55 percent higher.
The average stay of foreign tourists who visited the archipelago in May was 7.2 days, which represents a decrease of 2.81 percent compared to the same month last year, according to INE data.
