Macau recorded a total of 665,918 visitor arrivals during the five-day Easter holiday period between Good Friday and Tuesday, or a daily average of 133,184, according to immigration statistics released by the Public Security Police (PSP) yesterday.
The number of Easter holiday visitors nearly reached Macau’s population, which stood at 688,900 at the end of last year, according to the latest official demographics released by the Macau Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC).
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 Sunday. This year, in addition to a civil service holiday on Easter Monday as normal, public servants were also on holiday on Tuesday as this year’s Ching Ming Festival fell on a Sunday, i.e., April, 5, 2026.
Last year, the Easter holiday period ran for four days, comprising a three-day public holiday period between Good Friday and Easter Sunday plus a civil service holiday on Easter Monday. Correspondingly, at that time the Public Security Police released the total number of visitor arrivals for last year’s four-day Easter holiday period.
During the first four days of this year’s five-day Easter holiday period, running between Good Friday and Easter Monday, Macau recorded a total of 579,362 visitor arrivals, or a daily average of 144,841.
This represented an increase of 11.4 percent from last year’s four-day Easter holiday period between Good Friday and Easter Monday, during which 520,065 visitor arrivals were recorded, or a daily average of 130,016.
Border crossers including visitors enter Macau via the Hengqin checkpoint on Tuesday, the last day of Macau’s five-day Easter holiday period. – Photo: Tony Wong
