Monaco recorded nearly 6.7 million visits in 2025, generating close to 1.4 billion euros in direct tourism spending, according to a government survey based on interviews with more than 17,000 visitors carried out between January 2025 and January 2026. Both figures mark a record for the principality, whose entire tourism economy runs through roughly two square kilometres of territory.
The overwhelming majority of that traffic never stays the night. Day trippers accounted for 92.5 percent of visits, exploring the principality's casino square, harbour and museums before leaving the same day, while the remaining 7.5 percent stayed at least one night, together accounting for around 1.4 million overnight stays and 9.3 million total visitor days across the year.
The spending gap between those two groups is where the real story sits. Same day visitors spent an average of 76 euros per day, working out to roughly 85 euros per visit once trip length is factored in, while overnight guests spent 348 euros per day on average, or about 1,670 euros across a typical stay, nearly twenty times what a day tripper contributes per visit. Monaco's tourism economy, in other words, still depends disproportionately on a relatively small share of visitors willing to actually spend the night.
None of this is likely to surprise anyone who has walked Monaco's own streets on a cruise ship call day, when the principality's population effectively multiplies for a few hours before emptying out again by evening. What the survey adds is the precise scale of that pattern, and a reminder that for all the attention Monaco's billionaires and superyachts draw, a meaningful share of its recorded tourism revenue still comes from visitors who never book a room at all.