Spain received as many tourists as travelers arrived in June before pandemic

The 2025 has been the best first four -month period of the year for the tourism sector since there are records, as was the 2024. The arrival of foreign tourists has a year and a half marking month after month records consecutive monthly, according to INE data. The increases in the volume of visitors overlap registration after registration by converting every month in the best of its historical series in terms of influx of foreign travelers, continuous growth since in 2023 the recovery was sudden after the stop caused by the COVID-19 and that has led the tourist sector to unusual levels a few years ago. In April of this year they visited Spain practically the same number of tourists who did it before the pandemic in the months of June, traditional gun of the high season.

In it Fourth month of 2025 8.6 million international travelers arrived in the country, 10.1% more that in the same month last year. This increase, fed by the Easter pull – this year fell in April, unlike the 2024, which coincided in the last week of March – allowed the record 7.8 million tourists received in the same month last year, thus renewing for the third consecutive year the ceiling of the historical series for one month of April. And it is that the increase in the last year is added up to 7.7% scored a year earlier.

Since 2019, El Volume of foreign tourists arriving in Spain in April has increased by 19.9% to the point that the 2025 mark not only exceeds 7.1 million visitors received at that time, but also Broken the prepaymia volume of travelers in months of more influx such as June and September. In the sixth and ninth month of the year of 2019, for example, Spain respectively received 8.8 and 8.9 million international tourists, figures near those also scored in 2018. And that June and September usually be, together with July and August, the most arrivated season, given the strong seasonality of Sun and Beach tourism.

More than 40% of foreign visitors that Spain hosts each year concentrate in the four summer monthsalthough the tourist ‘boom’ of recent years has begun to subtly file the summer peak in the arrivals curve. According to INE data, in 2019 about 37.7 million visitors were counted between June and September, 45.1% of the 83.5 million record received in the whole year. After the stop of the pandemic, the full recovery of normality and the desire to travel and the accumulated savings shake the records to write down an annual new record in 2023 with the arrival in Spain of 85.2 million foreign tourists, of which 43.9% were brought together between June and September (37.4 million). In 2024, the weight of these summer months decreased slightly to concentrate 43.4% of the nearly 94 million foreign visitors who traveled to the country, a new annual record.

This evolution reflects how The postpania tourist boom has been intense both inside and outside the high seasonwhich has contributed to move towards the de -stationalization of the sector. The interannual increase of 10.1% recorded in April of this year has been the most pronounced since the rise of 10.4% registered in November, although the growth in the influx of visitors has been uninterrupted since in mid -2021 the recovery of the sector began after the stop of the pandemic. If the rhythm of the upload of the last four months is maintained – Spain has received between January and April 7.1% more tourists than last year, a total of 25.6 million – in May as many travelers could have arrived in the country as they did in July 2019.