Macau recorded a total of 460,013 visitor arrivals during the Chinese mainland’s three-day Ching Ming Festival holiday period between Saturday and Monday, or a daily average of 153,338, according to calculations based on daily immigration statistics released by the Public Security Police (PSP) during the period.
This represented an increase of 12.5 percent from last year’s corresponding period, during which 408,778 visitor arrivals were recorded, or a daily average of 136,259.
On the Ching Ming Festival this year, i.e., April, 5, 2026, Macau recorded 172,057 visitor arrivals, a slight decrease of 0.69 percent from last year’s Ching Ming Festival, i.e., April 4, 2025, when 173,256 visitor arrivals were recorded.
This year, the Chinese mainland’s Ching Ming Festival holiday period partially coincided with Macau’s Easter public holiday period.
Macau’s three-day Easter public holiday period annually runs between Good Friday and Easter on Sunday. This year, in addition to a civil service holiday on Easter Monday as normal, public servants were also on holiday yesterday as this year’s Ching Ming Festival fell on a Sunday.
According to the PSP immigration statistics, Macau recorded a total of 579,362 visitor arrivals during this year’s four-day period between Good Friday and Easter Monday, or a daily average of 144,841.
This represented an increase of 11.4 percent from last year’s four-day period between Good Friday and Easter Monday, during which 520,065 visitor arrivals were recorded, or a daily average of 130,016.
The Public Security Police are scheduled to release their immigration statistics today, including visitor arrivals, for the whole Ching Ming-cum-Easter five-day period between Good Friday and yesterday.
The entry and exit (border crossings) figures recorded by the Public Security Police, which run Macau’s immigration service, comprise local residents, visitors, non-resident workers (NRWs), non-local students enrolled in Macau, and all others with a special permit to stay in Macau.
Qingming is the festival’s spelling in Putonghua pinyin. Apart from Ching Ming, it is also spelt Cheng Ming. In English it is also known as Tomb-Sweeping Festival.
Tourists walk along Rua de S. Paulo yesterday, a narrow pedestrian-only street near the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Ruins of St. Paul’s landmark. – Photo: Tony Wong
