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Pick a topic and see every place ranked: 35 European countries, 47 Japanese prefectures or 123 European regions. In 2025 guests stayed longest in Cyprus (4.7 nights on average), and accommodation prices rose most in Croatia (+12.7%). Up to four places can also sit side by side.
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Table: yearly figures, European countries
| Country | Two busiest months | Share of the year | Guests from abroad | Average stay | Accommodation prices, 2025 against 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albania | July and August | 42.4% | 73.8% | 2.3 nights | — |
| Austria | July and August | 24.9% | 72.2% | 3.1 nights | +4.6% |
| Belgium | July and August | 26.6% | 50.6% | 2.3 nights | +3.7% |
| Bulgaria | July and August | 43.4% | 55.8% | — | +4.3% |
| Croatia | July and August | 54.5% | 90.3% | 4.6 nights | +12.7% |
| Cyprus | July and August | 29.6% | 92.8% | 4.7 nights | +6.3% |
| Czechia | July and August | 27.1% | 45.2% | 2.5 nights | +7.9% |
| Denmark | July and August | 32.8% | 41.5% | 4.1 nights | +7.4% |
| Estonia | July and August | 26.1% | 56.5% | — | +8.7% |
| Finland | July and August | 24.1% | 30.9% | 1.8 nights | −3.4% |
| France | July and August | 36.0% | 32.0% | 2.5 nights | +3.7% |
| Germany | July and August | 24.1% | 18.9% | 2.4 nights | +3.0% |
| Greece | July and August | 41.6% | 83.8% | 4.1 nights | +2.4% |
| Hungary | July and August | 28.2% | 48.9% | 2.4 nights | +5.9% |
| Iceland | July and August | 33.1% | 87.1% | 1.5 nights | +3.9% |
| Ireland | July and August | 28.5% | 59.0% | 3.3 nights | +0.5% |
| Italy | July and August | 34.3% | 56.3% | 3.3 nights | +3.1% |
| Latvia | July and August | 29.1% | 61.8% | 1.8 nights | +5.9% |
| Liechtenstein | July and August | 25.8% | 96.3% | 1.8 nights | — |
| Lithuania | July and August | 24.5% | 41.7% | 2.3 nights | +8.2% |
| Luxembourg | July and August | 31.3% | 88.6% | 2.2 nights | +1.2% |
| Malta | July and August | 21.8% | 94.3% | 4.4 nights | +2.1% |
| Montenegro | July and August | 40.5% | 88.2% | 3.4 nights | — |
| Netherlands | July and August | 27.1% | 43.6% | 2.8 nights | +3.0% |
| Norway | July and August | 31.8% | 34.9% | 1.9 nights | +3.3% |
| Poland | July and August | 27.0% | 19.3% | 2.4 nights | +5.3% |
| Portugal | July and August | 26.0% | 67.1% | 2.7 nights | −0.2% |
| Romania | July and August | 32.3% | 17.9% | 2.1 nights | +10.4% |
| Serbia | July and August | 23.0% | 49.4% | 2.8 nights | — |
| Slovakia | July and August | 25.9% | 34.7% | 2.5 nights | +4.9% |
| Slovenia | July and August | 35.5% | 74.9% | 2.6 nights | +2.8% |
| Spain | July and August | 27.6% | 64.1% | 3.4 nights | +6.4% |
| Sweden | July and August | 33.2% | 26.6% | 1.9 nights | +3.9% |
| Switzerland | July and August | 25.7% | 46.9% | 2.3 nights | +1.6% |
| Türkiye | July and August | 29.2% | 61.3% | 2.5 nights | — |
Table: yearly figures, Japanese prefectures
| Prefecture | Two busiest months | Share of the year | Guests from outside Japan | Room occupancy over the year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aichi | August and November | 18.5% | 21.4% | 69.2% |
| Akita | August and October | 22.9% | 5.0% | 48.3% |
| Aomori | August and October | 21.9% | 10.7% | 61.1% |
| Chiba | March and August | 19.1% | 15.5% | 64.0% |
| Ehime | August and November | 19.4% | 13.3% | 57.2% |
| Fukui | August and November | 22.9% | 2.8% | 46.2% |
| Fukuoka | August and October | 18.0% | 33.0% | 72.1% |
| Fukushima | August and October | 20.6% | 3.7% | 49.2% |
| Gifu | August and October | 19.9% | 24.6% | 56.0% |
| Gunma | July and August | 21.1% | 4.1% | 46.8% |
| Hiroshima | August and October | 19.8% | 18.2% | 64.4% |
| Hokkaido | July and August | 20.8% | 28.6% | 61.2% |
| Hyogo | August and November | 19.6% | 12.1% | 61.1% |
| Ibaraki | August and October | 19.7% | 4.3% | 54.1% |
| Ishikawa | August and November | 20.5% | 22.5% | 57.1% |
| Iwate | August and October | 20.4% | 8.1% | 54.9% |
| Kagawa | August and October | 21.5% | 22.9% | 58.4% |
| Kagoshima | August and November | 19.5% | 8.4% | 51.6% |
| Kanagawa | August and October | 19.7% | 18.4% | 66.2% |
| Kochi | August and October | 21.6% | 5.0% | 48.6% |
| Kumamoto | October and November | 19.7% | 20.9% | 58.9% |
| Kyoto | May and October | 19.0% | 55.2% | 66.8% |
| Mie | August and November | 21.1% | 4.1% | 57.6% |
| Miyagi | August and October | 20.1% | 9.6% | 60.2% |
| Miyazaki | August and November | 19.9% | 6.8% | 54.1% |
| Nagano | July and August | 22.4% | 13.2% | 39.0% |
| Nagasaki | August and November | 20.6% | 10.0% | 56.3% |
| Nara | May and August | 20.1% | 16.4% | 50.9% |
| Niigata | March and August | 20.4% | 8.3% | 46.1% |
| Oita | March and August | 19.5% | 18.3% | 54.4% |
| Okayama | August and October | 20.0% | 11.6% | 59.2% |
| Okinawa | August and October | 20.8% | 27.2% | 60.3% |
| Osaka | May and August | 18.4% | 41.7% | 78.6% |
| Saga | May and August | 18.9% | 10.7% | 52.4% |
| Saitama | August and November | 18.9% | 5.2% | 66.7% |
| Shiga | August and October | 20.8% | 6.4% | 53.2% |
| Shimane | August and October | 22.1% | 3.3% | 54.2% |
| Shizuoka | March and August | 20.4% | 9.9% | 56.0% |
| Tochigi | August and October | 21.3% | 4.3% | 55.2% |
| Tokushima | August and November | 19.9% | 8.6% | 52.6% |
| Tokyo | October and December | 17.8% | 55.7% | 76.3% |
| Tottori | August and November | 21.0% | 7.9% | 52.2% |
| Toyama | August and October | 23.3% | 9.8% | 55.5% |
| Wakayama | March and August | 20.8% | 17.7% | 48.4% |
| Yamagata | August and October | 21.1% | 6.6% | 50.3% |
| Yamaguchi | August and November | 19.7% | 4.4% | 57.0% |
| Yamanashi | July and August | 27.1% | 27.7% | 43.8% |
Table: seasonality of European regions
| Region | Country | Two busiest months | Share of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burgenland | Austria | June and August | 29.1% |
| Kärnten | Austria | July and August | 40.7% |
| Niederösterreich | Austria | July and August | 23.1% |
| Oberösterreich | Austria | July and August | 26.3% |
| Salzburg | Austria | February and August | 26.2% |
| Steiermark | Austria | July and August | 25.0% |
| Tirol | Austria | February and August | 26.1% |
| Vorarlberg | Austria | January and February | 26.0% |
| Wien | Austria | August and December | 20.4% |
| Grad Zagreb | Croatia | July and August | 20.8% |
| Jadranska Hrvatska | Croatia | July and August | 56.2% |
| Panonska Hrvatska | Croatia | July and August | 31.9% |
| Sjeverna Hrvatska | Croatia | July and August | 28.3% |
| Jihovýchod | Czechia | July and August | 34.0% |
| Jihozápad | Czechia | July and August | 37.6% |
| Moravskoslezsko | Czechia | July and August | 27.3% |
| Praha | Czechia | August and December | 19.9% |
| Severovýchod | Czechia | July and August | 30.9% |
| Severozápad | Czechia | July and August | 23.1% |
| Střední Morava | Czechia | July and August | 28.5% |
| Střední Čechy | Czechia | July and August | 34.3% |
| Etelä-Suomi | Finland | June and July | 28.5% |
| Helsinki-Uusimaa | Finland | July and August | 22.6% |
| Länsi-Suomi | Finland | June and July | 28.5% |
| Pohjois- ja Itä-Suomi | Finland | July and December | 24.7% |
| Åland | Finland | June and July | 47.9% |
| Alsace | France | July and August | 24.8% |
| Aquitaine | France | July and August | 50.1% |
| Auvergne | France | July and August | 42.5% |
| Basse-Normandie | France | July and August | 40.0% |
| Bourgogne | France | July and August | 31.8% |
| Bretagne | France | July and August | 47.1% |
| Centre — Val de Loire | France | July and August | 32.5% |
| Champagne-Ardenne | France | July and August | 29.6% |
| Corse | France | July and August | 48.7% |
| Franche-Comté | France | July and August | 42.5% |
| Guadeloupe | France | January and February | 23.7% |
| Guyane | France | October and November | 20.1% |
| Haute-Normandie | France | July and August | 29.5% |
| Ile de France | France | June and July | 18.8% |
| La Réunion | France | October and November | 20.1% |
| Languedoc-Roussillon | France | July and August | 51.7% |
| Limousin | France | July and August | 45.2% |
| Lorraine | France | July and August | 29.9% |
| Martinique | France | January and February | 22.0% |
| Mayotte | France | February and March | 20.0% |
| Midi-Pyrénées | France | July and August | 38.1% |
| Nord-Pas de Calais | France | July and August | 25.7% |
| Pays de la Loire | France | July and August | 48.3% |
| Picardie | France | July and August | 33.3% |
| Poitou-Charentes | France | July and August | 47.7% |
| Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur | France | July and August | 37.1% |
| Rhône-Alpes | France | July and August | 31.1% |
| Budapest | Hungary | August and December | 20.1% |
| Dél-Alföld | Hungary | July and August | 31.3% |
| Dél-Dunántúl | Hungary | July and August | 48.1% |
| Közép-Dunántúl | Hungary | July and August | 41.4% |
| Nyugat-Dunántúl | Hungary | July and August | 26.4% |
| Pest | Hungary | July and August | 25.6% |
| Észak-Alföld | Hungary | July and August | 30.8% |
| Észak-Magyarország | Hungary | July and August | 29.0% |
| Abruzzo | Italy | July and August | 48.4% |
| Basilicata | Italy | July and August | 43.0% |
| Calabria | Italy | July and August | 56.9% |
| Campania | Italy | July and August | 30.9% |
| Emilia-Romagna | Italy | July and August | 40.0% |
| Friuli-Venezia Giulia | Italy | July and August | 39.0% |
| Lazio | Italy | June and July | 20.3% |
| Liguria | Italy | July and August | 34.4% |
| Lombardia | Italy | July and August | 25.8% |
| Marche | Italy | July and August | 49.6% |
| Molise | Italy | July and August | 48.4% |
| Piemonte | Italy | July and August | 28.0% |
| Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano/Bozen | Italy | July and August | 30.1% |
| Provincia Autonoma di Trento | Italy | July and August | 35.6% |
| Puglia | Italy | July and August | 46.8% |
| Sardegna | Italy | July and August | 47.0% |
| Sicilia | Italy | July and August | 33.5% |
| Toscana | Italy | July and August | 36.2% |
| Umbria | Italy | July and August | 28.8% |
| Valle d’Aosta/Vallée d’Aoste | Italy | July and August | 35.5% |
| Veneto | Italy | July and August | 37.4% |
| Agder og Sør-Østlandet | Norway | July and August | 46.3% |
| Innlandet | Norway | July and August | 36.0% |
| Nord-Norge | Norway | July and August | 29.7% |
| Oslo og Viken | Norway | July and August | 24.6% |
| Svalbard og Jan Mayen | Norway | March and July | 22.7% |
| Trøndelag | Norway | July and August | 28.2% |
| Vestlandet | Norway | July and August | 34.1% |
| Alentejo | Portugal | July and August | 32.2% |
| Algarve | Portugal | July and August | 30.0% |
| Centro (PT) | Portugal | July and August | 29.5% |
| Grande Lisboa | Portugal | July and August | 20.6% |
| Norte | Portugal | July and August | 25.0% |
| Oeste e Vale do Tejo | Portugal | July and August | 29.3% |
| Península de Setúbal | Portugal | July and August | 30.1% |
| Região Autónoma da Madeira | Portugal | July and August | 20.5% |
| Região Autónoma dos Açores | Portugal | July and August | 28.8% |
| Bucureşti-Ilfov | Romania | September and October | 19.7% |
| Centru | Romania | July and August | 24.1% |
| Nord-Est | Romania | July and August | 25.7% |
| Nord-Vest | Romania | July and August | 25.2% |
| Sud-Est | Romania | July and August | 64.5% |
| Sud-Muntenia | Romania | July and August | 23.5% |
| Sud-Vest Oltenia | Romania | July and August | 25.0% |
| Vest | Romania | July and August | 23.8% |
| Vzhodna Slovenija | Slovenia | July and August | 28.8% |
| Zahodna Slovenija | Slovenia | July and August | 38.4% |
| Mellersta Norrland | Sweden | July and August | 32.2% |
| Norra Mellansverige | Sweden | July and August | 33.6% |
| Småland med öarna | Sweden | July and August | 48.8% |
| Stockholm | Sweden | July and August | 23.1% |
| Sydsverige | Sweden | July and August | 35.3% |
| Västsverige | Sweden | July and August | 36.9% |
| Östra Mellansverige | Sweden | July and August | 31.8% |
| Övre Norrland | Sweden | July and August | 32.6% |
| Espace Mittelland | Switzerland | July and August | 28.8% |
| Nordwestschweiz | Switzerland | July and August | 20.3% |
| Ostschweiz | Switzerland | February and August | 25.4% |
| Région lémanique | Switzerland | July and August | 24.8% |
| Ticino | Switzerland | July and August | 34.9% |
| Zentralschweiz | Switzerland | July and August | 26.4% |
| Zürich | Switzerland | July and August | 20.9% |
Month-by-month figures for each place are in the tables on its own page, for example Italy or Kyoto.
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| Topic | Italy | Spain | Kyoto | Hokkaido |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Busiest two months, share of the year | 34.3% (July and August) | 27.6% (July and August) | 19.0% (May and October) | 20.8% (July and August) |
| Share of the year in May | 8.0% | 9.2% | 9.5% | 7.5% |
| Nights by guests from abroad | 56.3% | 64.1% | 55.2% | 28.6% |
| Average length of stay | 3.3 nights | 3.4 nights | — | — |
| Accommodation prices, 2025 against 2024 | +3.1% | +6.4% | — | — |
| Occupancy in May | 52.6% | 70.4% | 71.3% | 55.1% |
| Occupancy over the year | — | — | 66.8% | 61.2% |
| Average daytime high in May | 23.3 °C | 23.5 °C | 25.1 °C | 17.9 °C |
| Rainy days in May | 5.5 days | 6.8 days | 9.7 days | 8.5 days |
| Daylight on 15 May | 14 h 33 min | 14 h 26 min | 14 h 00 min | 14 h 39 min |
| Weather station city | Rome | Madrid | Kyoto | Sapporo |
Before you compare
- Europe and Japan count differently. Europe counts nights at hotels, holiday and short-stay accommodation and campsites; Japan counts guest nights at licensed hotels, ryokan and other lodgings. Compare places within the same set.12
- Occupancy is measured differently too. In Europe it is Eurostat's net occupancy rate of bedrooms in hotels and similar places only, not campsites or holiday lets. In Japan it is the agency's room occupancy rate across every licensed lodging type.62
- Price change is not price. The figure shows how much accommodation prices changed between 2024 and 2025, not what a stay costs.5
- Weather is one station per place, named on each page, as 1991–2020 averages. Rainy days follow each weather source's own definition, so small differences between countries mean little.78
- Regions come from a separate Eurostat dataset, updated on 2 July 2026, so a region's figures can differ slightly from its country's.3
- Daylight is our calculation of sunrise to sunset on the 15th of each month of 2026 at each place's weather station.9
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Key takeaways
- Longest average stay in 2025: Cyprus, 4.7 nights. Shortest: Iceland, 1.5 nights.
- Accommodation prices rose most in Croatia (+12.7%); they fell in Portugal and Finland.
- Sharpest peak among 123 regions: Sud-Est (Romania), with 64.5% of its 2025 nights in two months.
- Guests from abroad: from 17.9% of nights in Romania to 96.3% in Liechtenstein; in Japan, from 2.8% in Fukui to 55.7% in Tokyo.
- What we would skip: ranking a European country against a Japanese prefecture on the same chart. The surveys count different things.
Sources
Every figure is the one printed on the linked country, prefecture or region page; each chart names its source. See how we research.
- Source: Eurostat, Nights spent at tourist accommodation establishments – monthly data, doi:10.2908/TOUR_OCC_NIM, accessed 25 September 2026. Dataset last updated by Eurostat on 22 September 2026. Extract: number of nights, NACE codes I55.1–I55.3, all guests and split by guests resident in the country and abroad, January–December 2025.
- Source: 「宿泊旅行統計調査」（観光庁） (Overnight Travel Statistics Survey, Japan Tourism Agency), 2025 annual figures (final), tables 2 and 8 and reference table 1, published 6 July 2026. Survey page · workbook. Accessed 17 September 2026. Licensed under the Public Data License 1.0 (PDL1.0).
- Source: Eurostat, Nights spent at tourist accommodation establishments by month and NUTS 2 region, doi:10.2908/TOUR_OCC_NIN2M, accessed 22 September 2026. Dataset last updated by Eurostat on 2 July 2026. Extract: number of nights, NACE codes I55.1–I55.3, all guests, 2025, by month. Region names are Eurostat's.
- Source: Eurostat, Arrivals at tourist accommodation establishments – monthly data, doi:10.2908/TOUR_OCC_ARM, with the nights data (tour_occ_nim), accessed 25 September 2026. Extract: number of arrivals and nights, NACE codes I55.1–I55.3, all guests, January–December 2025. Average stay is our calculation: nights divided by arrivals.
- Source: Eurostat, HICP – annual data (average index and rate of change), doi:10.2908/PRC_HICP_AIND, accessed 22 September 2026. Extract: accommodation services (COICOP CP112), annual average rate of change, 2025.
- Source: Eurostat, Net occupancy rate of bed-places and bedrooms in hotels and similar accommodation – monthly data, doi:10.2908/TOUR_OCC_MNOR, accessed 22 September 2026. Extract: bedrooms, percentage, January–December 2025.
- Weather in Europe: each country page names its station. WMO Member Nations (2023). WMO Climatological Standard Normals for 1991-2020 (NCEI Accession 0253808), station RomaCiampino (station ID 00016239), mean daily maximum and minimum temperature, precipitation and number of days with at least 1 mm of precipitation, normals computed from at least 24 years. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Dataset. doi:10.25921/800j-vn07. Accessed 22 September 2026. Released by NOAA under CC0. Liechtenstein: Source: MeteoSwiss. Climate normals 1991–2020, station Vaduz: mean maximum and minimum temperature, precipitation total, days with at least 1 mm of precipitation and sunshine duration. Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss, open data (opendata.swiss: Klimanormwerte). Accessed 23 September 2026. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. MeteoSwiss does not endorse this site or how the data is used here.
- Weather in Japan: each prefecture page names its station and links its table. Example: 出典：気象庁ホームページ（京都 平年値）. Japan Meteorological Agency, 1991–2020 normals for the Kyoto station: daily maximum and minimum temperature, precipitation, days with at least 1.0 mm of precipitation (降水量の階級日数) and hours of sunshine (日照時間). Accessed 22 September 2026. Licensed under PDL1.0. 気象庁「平年値」を加工して作成 — edited by Gallivanting Gadabout (English wording, selection and rounding).
- Method: NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory, Solar Calculation Details (the NOAA Solar Calculator equations, based on Jean Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms), Read it. Checked 24 September 2026. NOAA notes that the calculator is no longer actively maintained and that calculated times can differ from what is observed. We used the same equations for the daylight figures on our country and prefecture pages. Our calculations; NOAA does not endorse this site.
Shares, rankings and daylight are our calculations from the sources above; shares are rounded to one decimal place. 「宿泊旅行統計調査」（観光庁）を加工して作成 — edited by Gallivanting Gadabout (shares, rankings). 気象庁「平年値」を加工して作成 — edited by Gallivanting Gadabout (English wording, selection and charts).