December was the busiest month for international tourists arriving in Mexico in 2025, with 10.9% of the year's arrivals, and September the quietest, with 6.7%. July and December together accounted for 19.8%. These figures count arrivals, not how long visitors stayed.
Mexico, month by month
- Two busiest months
- Other months
When is Mexico busiest with international visitors, and when is it quietest?
December had the most international tourist arrivals in 2025, with 10.9% of the year's total. September had the fewest, with 6.7%. That makes December 1.6 times as busy as September.1
Seven months each had less than an average month's share of 8.3%: January, February, April, May, August, September and October.
Where do Mexico's international visitors come from?
INEGI does not publish a full-year 2025 breakdown by country of residence in the files we used, so we do not show one.
What exactly is counted?
INEGI, Mexico's national statistics institute, counts international tourists: visitors who live outside Mexico and spend at least one night there. Its figure adds tourists travelling inland (by air or by land) to tourists who stay in the border zone. Same-day visitors and cruise passengers are not in it. We added the monthly figures for those groups from INEGI's open data; they sum to the 2025 total INEGI published, 47,786,706.1
Other countries count arrivals differently, which is why we do not rank Mexico against the others on the overview page.
June or September? May or October?
September was quieter than June, at 6.7% against 8.5%.
May and October were almost identical, at 7.8% and 7.8%.
These compare months at similar distances from the middle of the year. They say nothing about weather, which we have not measured.
What these figures cannot tell you
Arrivals are not crowds. A month with many arrivals can still feel quiet if visitors stay briefly or spread out, and a national total cannot show how busy one city, park or beach is.
They say nothing about length of stay, weather or prices. This page has no weather or price data.
The figures are preliminary. INEGI marks its figures from 2024 onwards as preliminary, so they can still change.2
Border-zone tourists are included. They are a large part of the total, and their pattern may differ from that of visitors flying in.1
They are one year. These are 2025 figures, and patterns shift from year to year.
The full year
| Month | Share of year | Arrivals |
|---|---|---|
| January | 8.3% | 3,947,959 |
| February | 7.8% | 3,723,726 |
| March | 8.8% | 4,188,343 |
| April | 7.8% | 3,746,553 |
| May | 7.8% | 3,751,180 |
| June | 8.5% | 4,069,368 |
| July (one of the two busiest months) | 8.9% | 4,245,420 |
| August | 7.9% | 3,786,226 |
| September | 6.7% | 3,203,803 |
| October | 7.8% | 3,740,905 |
| November | 8.7% | 4,164,530 |
| December (one of the two busiest months) | 10.9% | 5,218,693 |
Total for 2025: 47,786,706 international tourist arrivals. The two busiest months are marked.
Key takeaways
- September was the quietest month for international tourists arriving in Mexico in 2025, with 6.7% of the year's arrivals.
- July and December were the busiest, with 19.8% between them.
- September was quieter than June, at 6.7% against 8.5%.
- What we would skip: comparing these percentages with another country's. Each country counts arrivals its own way.
Sources
Every figure on this page comes from INEGI, Mexico's national statistics institute. We downloaded the monthly figures and calculated the shares and comparisons ourselves. See how we research.
- Source: Fuente: INEGI, Encuestas de Viajeros Internacionales (EVI): Encuesta de Turismo de Internación and Encuesta de Viajeros Fronterizos, monthly open data 2018–2025 (updated 12 February 2026), January–December 2025: tourists entering by air and by land, and border-zone tourists by car and on foot. Read it. Accessed 24 September 2026. Reused under INEGI's Términos de Libre Uso de la Información. The monthly totals, shares and comparisons are our own calculations, not INEGI's, and do not represent an official INEGI position.
- INEGI, Encuestas de Viajeros Internacionales (EVI), Boletín de indicador 82/26, 12 February 2026, cuadro 2 (annual 2025 total) and the note on preliminary figures. Read it. Checked 24 September 2026.
Changes we made. The monthly shares, rankings of months and comparisons are our own calculations from the published counts. Percentages are rounded to one decimal place, so they may not add exactly.