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May recorded the weakest monthly tally so far this year as arrivals from China and Indonesia declined.<\/strong><\/p>\n Singapore welcomed 7.00 million visitor arrivals <\/a>from January to May 2026, down 1.2% YoY, according to Singapore Tourism Board (STB) data.<\/p>\n Overnight visitors reached 5.10 million during the period, down 2.2% from a year earlier.<\/p>\n Average length of stay slipped 2.3% to 3.41 days, whilst visitor days fell 3.5% to 23.87 million.<\/p>\n May was the weakest month so far this year, with 1.24 million visitor arrivals. This was lower than the 1.33 million recorded in April and the 1.43 million in March.<\/p>\n May arrivals declined 9.7% YoY, dragged by weaker arrivals from key markets including mainland China, Indonesia, India, and Australia.<\/p>\n In May, mainland China remained Singapore\u2019s top source market with 204,640 arrivals, followed by Indonesia with 170,130, India with 144,010, Malaysia with 111,910, and Australia with 83,510.<\/p>\n Among these markets, arrivals from mainland China fell 15.4% YoY, whilst Indonesia declined 14.0%. Malaysia\u2019s arrivals were flat from a year earlier, whilst India and Australia posted single-digit declines.<\/p>\n For the first five months of 2026, China was Singapore\u2019s largest source market with about 1.34 million arrivals, followed by Indonesia with 966,170.<\/p>\n Malaysia ranked third with 549,900 arrivals, followed by Australia with 510,530 and India with 498,110.<\/p>\n By age group, visitors aged 35 to 44 and 25 to 34 accounted for the largest shares of arrivals, at about 1.45 million and 1.44 million, respectively.<\/p>\n Air remained the dominant mode of arrival, accounting for 79.4% of visitor arrivals from January to May. Land arrivals made up 10.5%, whilst sea arrivals accounted for 10.1%.<\/p>\n The January-to-May tally represents about 40% of STB\u2019s full-year 2026 forecast of 17 million to 18 million visitor arrivals.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n May recorded the weakest monthly tally so far this year as arrivals from China and Indonesia declined. Singapore welcomed 7.00 million visitor arrivals from January…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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