February 2025 Total International Travel Volume
February 2025 Total International Travel Volume to and from the United States
In February 2025, international visitor arrivals to the United States totaled 4,636,160, a decrease of 1.9% from February 2024
Outbound travel departures from the United States by U.S. citizens totaled 7,371,465 in February 2025, an increase of 4.6% from February 2024
Data recently released by the National Travel and Tourism Office show that in February 2025*:
*Note: February 2024 was a leap year and had 29 days vs. 28 days in February 2025, impacting February 2024 and February 2025 comparisons.
International Arrivals to the United States
- Total non-U.S. resident international visitor volume to the United States of 4,636,160, decreased 1.9% compared to February 2024 and represented 91% of the pre-COVID total visitor volume reported for February 2019.
- Overseas visitor volume to the United States of 2,198,100 decreased 2.4% from February 2024.
- The largest number of international visitor arrivals was from Canada (1,246,740), Mexico (1,191,320), the United Kingdom (280,586), Japan (152,344), and Brazil (145,325). Combined, these top 5 source markets accounted for 65.1% of total international arrivals.
- Of the top 20 tourist generating countries to the United States, Canada (-11.7%), France (-5.6%), South Korea (-16.2%), India (-1.8%), Germany (-8.5%), China (-11.1%), Spain (-1.9%), Colombia (-12.7%), Chile (-6.8%), Ireland (-3.2%), and the Netherlands (-7.9%), reported a decrease in visitor volume in February 2025 compared to February 2024.
- The top 5 overseas tourism arrivals for February were the United Kingdom (229,922), Brazil (133,366), Japan (126,284), France (110,314), and South Korea (100,711).
- The top 5 overseas business arrivals for February were the United Kingdom (49,827), India (36,446), Germany (24,964), Japan (24,958), and China (19,927).
- The top 5 overseas student arrivals for February were India (10,900), China (9,207), South Korea (1,928), Taiwan (1,586) and Brazil (1,286).
International Departures from the United States
- Total U.S. citizen international visitor departures from the United States of 7,371,465 increased 4.6% compared to February 2024 and were 116.4% of total departures in pre-pandemic February 2019.
- The year-to-date (YTD) market share for North America (Mexico & Canada) was 53.4% and overseas was 46.6%.
- Mexico recorded the largest outbound visitor volume of 3,279,591 (44.5% of total departures for February). Canada recorded a year-over-year (YOY) decrease of 4%.
- Combined YTD, Mexico (6,771,312) and the Caribbean (1,845,967) accounted for 57.5% of total U.S. citizen international visitor departures.
- The Caribbean was the second largest market for outbound U.S. visitors with 946,860 departures. This accounted for 12.8% of all departures in February. Outbound visitation to the Caribbean in February 2025 decreased 1.3% compared to February 2024.
Want to view interactive data visualization of these statistics? Please visit our ADIS/I-94 Visitor Arrivals Monitor (Country of Residence) and
(Country of Citizenship) and our I-92/APIS International Air Passenger Monitor for a more comprehensive and customizable experience!
I-92/APIS International Air Passengers
The ADIS/I-94 Visitor Arrivals Program, in cooperation with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)/U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), provides a count of visitor arrivals (Overseas+Canada+Mexico) to the United States (with stays of 1-night or more and visiting under certain visa types) and is used to calculate U.S. travel and tourism exports. Visit the ADIS/I-94 Visitor Arrivals Program home page for more information on U.S. visitor arrivals.
The APIS/I-92 Program provides information on non-stop international air traffic between the United States and other countries. The data has been collected from the Department of Homeland Security - Customs and Border Protection’s Advance Passenger Information System (APIS) since July 2010. The APIS based “I-92” system provides air traffic data on the following parameters: number of passengers, by country, airport, scheduled or chartered, U.S. Flag, foreign flag, citizens and non-citizens. Visit the APIS/I-92 Data Program home page for more information on airline travel to and from the United States.
