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Sydney statistics

Visitation statistics for Sydney based on the latest Tourism Research Australia Domestic Tourism Statistics (DoTS) and International Visitor Survey (IVS) data.

In the year ended December 2025, Sydney welcomed 62.6 million domestic visitors, who spent $20.4 billion in the state. Domestic overnight visitors stayed a total of 33.8 million nights.

Sydney also welcomed 3.8 million international visitors. They stayed 88.2 million nights and spent $13.7 billion in the city.

Note: Due to the program transition from the National Visitor Survey (NVS) to Domestic Tourism Statistics (DoTS) program, total domestic tourism figures for tourism regions are available from the June quarter 2025 only, while international visitation data remains unchanged. Learn more here.

Latest release

  • Travel to Sydney - visitor profile: YE December 2025

Note: NVS results in the archived reports up to YE December 2024 and DoTS results in the latest reports are not comparable to each other due to the change in methodology.

Archive

  • Travel to Sydney - visitor profile: YE December 2024

Time series

Destination NSW tracks data from 2015 to 2025 via its ‘Time series – travel to Sydney’ to help businesses predict visitor demand.

Latest release

  • Travel to Sydney time series: YE December 2025

Note: NVS results in the archived reports up to YE December 2024 and DoTS results in the latest reports are not comparable to each other due to the change in methodology.

Archive

  • Travel to Sydney time series: YE December 2024

Sydney precinct visitor profiles

Visitor profiles providing localised information and tourism statistics on different regions around Sydney.

Latest releases

  • Bondi visitor profile 2024
  • Manly visitor profile 2024
  • The Rocks visitor profile 2024
  • Darling Harbour visitor profile 2024
  • Chinatown visitor profile 2024
  • Circular Quay visitor profile 2024