MACAO, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) -- Macao recorded 3,345,683 visitor arrivals in November 2025, up 18.1 percent year-on-year, according to the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) of the special administrative region (SAR) on Friday.

Same-day visitors rose 31.5 percent to 2,035,555, while overnight visitors increased 2.1 percent to 1,310,128. The average length of stay shortened by 0.2 days year-on-year to 1.0 day, the DSEC reported, as the share of same-day visitors increased.

Visitors from the Chinese mainland climbed 21.9 percent to 2,397,043, with those traveling under the Individual Visit Scheme surging 36.1 percent. Visitors from Hong Kong and Taiwan rose 5.4 percent and 27.1 percent, respectively, while international visitors totaled 273,950, up 13.6 percent.

The service also revealed that in the first 11 months of 2025, total visitor arrivals increased 14.4 percent year-on-year to some 36.49 million. ■