Spain had the highest number of international overnight stays in Europe, reaching 329 million. France, which welcomes more tourists than any other country, recorded 150 million overnight stays. In 2025, France saw 102 million tourist arrivals (Travel and Tour World), while Spain had 97 million. The arrivals gap is small. The overnight stays gap is not.
Mallorca logged 47.2 million international overnight stays in 2023. The whole of Switzerland logged 27.7 million. The Canary Islands and Balearics pull visitors in for a week or two. Paris and the Riviera draw shorter stays, and many visitors cross from Belgium, Germany, or Switzerland without spending a night at all.
According to the map above, created by VisualCapitalist, using Eurostat data, Italy is at 265 million nights. Türkiye at 154 million edges out France at 150 million, which tends to catch people off guard. The UK follows at 149 million.
Rank
Country
International Visitor Nights
1
🇪🇸 Spain
329,661,068
2
🇮🇹 Italy
264,741,414
3
🇹🇷 Türkiye
154,799,879
4
🇫🇷 France
150,753,829
5
🇬🇧 United Kingdom (2024)
149,803,000
6
🇬🇷 Greece
130,851,809
7
🇦🇹 Austria
97,020,394
8
🇭🇷 Croatia
85,604,505
9
🇩🇪 Germany
83,622,666
10
🇳🇱 Netherlands
64,311,055
11
🇵🇹 Portugal
60,031,130
12
🇨🇭 Switzerland (2024)
27,719,928
13
🇨🇿 Czechia
26,740,457
14
🇮🇪 Ireland
24,718,902
15
🇧🇪 Belgium
23,138,513
16
🇵🇱 Poland
20,217,607
17
🇨🇾 Cyprus
17,338,450
18
🇩🇰 Denmark
16,909,462
19
🇸🇪 Sweden
16,496,139
20
🇭🇺 Hungary
16,234,583
21
🇧🇬 Bulgaria
16,083,286
22
🇳🇴 Norway
14,165,842
23
🇸🇮 Slovenia
13,344,871
24
🇲🇹 Malta
11,755,619
25
🇮🇸 Iceland
8,849,422
26
🇦🇱 Albania
7,137,072
27
🇫🇮 Finland
7,081,113
28
🇷🇸 Serbia
6,072,905
29
🇸🇰 Slovakia
5,407,029
30
🇷🇴 Romania
5,326,691
31
🇲🇪 Montenegro
4,577,800
32
🇱🇹 Lithuania
3,841,447
33
🇪🇪 Estonia
3,797,929
34
🇱🇺 Luxembourg
3,177,126
35
🇱🇻 Latvia
3,076,322
36
🇲🇰 North Macedonia (2024)
1,530,378
37
🇽🇰 Kosovo
902,259
38
🇱🇮 Liechtenstein
208,229
—
🇪🇺 European Union (total)
1,501,283,416
The Alpine ski economy does interesting things to overnight numbers. Austria logged 97 million international overnight stays, above Croatia at 85 million and Germany at 83.6 million, two countries with larger populations.
EU overnight stays grew 40% between 2009 and 2019, international visitors up 53%. 2020 cut 51% of that away in one year. 2023 was when the EU finally cleared the 2019 total, at 2.94 billion overnight stays.
