Singapore welcomed 1.30 million international visitors in March 2025, a decline of 5.8% from February and 11.5%lower than March last year, according to the Singapore Tourism Board (STB). The number of overnight visitors also saw a significant dip, totalling 932,530, down 17.1% year-on-year.

For the first quarter of 2025, the city-state recorded 4.31 million visitor arrivals, largely unchanged compared to the same period in 2024. Of this total, 3.17 million were overnight visitors, making up 73.5% of the total Q1 arrivals, though this category declined by 3.3% year-on-year.

The average length of stay among international visitors edged up to 3.49 days, a 1.2% increase year-on-year, suggesting that while fewer tourists are arriving, those who do are staying slightly longer.

China remained Singapore’s top source market, contributing 831,470 visitors in Q1—up 5.8% year-on-year and marking an 86.6% recovery compared to pre-pandemic 2019 levels. However, Indonesia, the second-largest market, saw arrivals drop 3.7% to 640,260, though this still represents an 88.3% recovery from 2019.

Visitor arrivals from Malaysia reached 312,220 in Q1, down slightly by 0.5% year-on-year but up 10.2% from the same period in 2019, when 283,200 Malaysians visited Singapore.

Despite softening visitor numbers in March, Singapore’s tourism sector continues to show signs of resilience through longer stays and strong recovery rates from key regional markets, particularly China.