Travel between Canada and other countries, June 2025
Released: 2025-08-22
3,445,503
June 2025
-5.4% 
(12-month change)
3,034,367
June 2025
-21.0%
(12-month change)
2,316,052
June 2025
-0.4%
(monthly change)
3,470,204
June 2025
2.7% 
(monthly change)
Highlights
In June, the number of Canadian-resident return trips from the United States was down 28.7% year over year, and the number of trips to Canada by US residents decreased 5.8%. Despite these decreases, for the first time since June 2006 (excluding August and September 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic), more US residents made trips to Canada than Canadian residents travelled to the United States.
In June 2025, the number of trips to Canada by overseas residents fell 3.9% from June 2024, while the number of Canadian-resident return trips from overseas increased 6.9%.
On a seasonally adjusted monthly basis, the number of Canadian-resident return trips from abroad was up 2.7% in June 2025—reversing five consecutive months of declines. US-resident arrivals edged down 0.4%, while overseas-resident arrivals edged down 0.6%.
Trips to Canada by US residents continue to decrease
In June, US-resident trips to Canada (2.7 million) declined year over year for a fifth consecutive month, down 5.8% from the same month in 2024.
Arrivals by automobile (1.6 million) were down 8.9% year over year in June 2025. Nearly half (46.0%) of these arrivals were same-day trips. Meanwhile, air arrivals (712,000) edged down 0.6% year over year. The number of US residents who disembarked in Canada from cruise ships was 278,800 in June, a decline of 0.7% from the same month in 2024.
Chart 1
Year-over-year change in US visitors entering Canada, by province or territory of arrival, June 2025
Trips to Canada by overseas residents continue to decline
In June 2025, 717,100 overseas residents arrived in Canada, down 3.9% from June 2024, marking the ninth consecutive month of year-over-year declines. The majority (82.7%) of overseas-resident arrivals were by air.
Fewer arrivals from Asia (-7.8%), the second-largest source market for overseas visitors to Canada, contributed the most to the year-over-year decline in overseas-resident arrivals in June.
In June, the top three countries of residence for overseas visitors were the United Kingdom (99,700), India (55,500), and France (51,800), accounting for 28.9% of all overseas arrivals in Canada.
Chart 2
Overseas visitors entering Canada, by continent of residence, January 2019 to June 2025
Trips abroad by Canadian residents continue to decrease
Canadian residents returned from 3.0 million trips abroad in June, representing a 21.0% decrease compared with June 2024 and marking the sixth consecutive month of year-over-year declines.
The number of Canadian-resident return trips by air from the United States (538,400) decreased by 15.7% in June from the same month a year earlier. Meanwhile, Canadian-resident return trips by air from overseas countries (882,300) increased 7.2%, compared with June 2024.
Canadian-resident return trips from the United States by automobile declined by 32.3% to 1.5 million in June 2025. Of these trips, 64.7% were same-day trips.
Chart 3
Canadian residents returning to Canada from abroad, June 2024 to June 2025
Seasonally adjusted arrivals
Tourism is influenced by seasonal effects (e.g., actual seasons and holidays such as Canada Day and Thanksgiving) and by calendar effects (e.g., number of weekends in a month). All statistics in this section are based on seasonally adjusted data (for more information, see the Note to readers).
Trips to Canada by US residents edge down
On a seasonally adjusted monthly basis, the overall number of arrivals in Canada by US residents edged down 0.4% in June. Decreases in arrivals by air (-3.3%) and by automobile (-0.4%) contributed to the monthly decline.
Chart 4
Percent change in US visitors entering Canada, by province or territory of arrival, May to June 2025, seasonally adjusted data
Trips to Canada by overseas residents marginally down
In June, the number of overseas-resident arrivals in Canada decreased slightly by 0.6% on a seasonally adjusted monthly basis, led by residents of Oceania (-14.7%) and Europe (-1.7%). By volume, fewer visitors from Australia (-16.6%) and France (-3.2%) contributed the most to the overall monthly decline.
Chart 5
Overseas visitors entering Canada, by continent of residence, January 2019 to June 2025, seasonally adjusted data
Canadian-resident return trips from abroad increase
On a seasonally adjusted monthly basis, Canadian residents returned from a greater number of trips abroad (+2.7%) in June—reversing five consecutive months of declines. This increase was the result of more trips to the United States by automobile (+5.5%) and by air (+2.6%), which accounted for 68.6% of overall Canadian-resident trips abroad in June.
In June, Canadian-resident trips overseas by air, which accounted for 31.3% of all Canadian-resident trips abroad, edged down 0.4% compared with May.
Chart 6
Non-resident visitors entering Canada and Canadian residents returning to Canada, January 2019 to June 2025
Chart 7
Canadian residents returning to Canada from the United States and US residents visiting Canada, January 2019 to June 2025
Upcoming enhancements — Integrated Primary Inspection Line – Air integration
With the upcoming release of the July 2025 reference month for "Travel between Canada and other countries" on September 23, Statistics Canada will integrate travellers processed through the Canada Border Services Agency's Integrated Primary Inspection Line – Air (IPIL Air) system into the Frontier Counts. The related data series will be revised from January 2025 onward to reflect this update.
This new data source will improve the accuracy of Frontier Counts by addressing existing data gaps at some ports of entry. IPIL Air data will also replace information from paper E311 declaration forms at other ports of entry.
Additional details on the IPIL Air data integration will be provided with the September 23 release of July 2025 reference month data.
Focus on Canada and the United States
In June, Canadian residents returned from 2.1 million trips to the United States, representing a 28.7% decrease from the same month in 2024 and accounting for 70.8% of all trips abroad taken by Canadian residents in June 2025.
Meanwhile, US residents took 2.7 million trips to Canada in June, down 5.8% from the same month in 2024 and representing 79.2% of all non-resident trips to Canada in June 2025.
In June 2025, for the first time since June 2006 (excluding August and September 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic), more US residents made trips to Canada than Canadian residents travelled to the United States.
An article recently published in Statistics Canada's Economic and Social Reports highlights the "Recent changes in Canadian-resident travel to the United States."
For more data and insights on areas touched by the socio-economic relationship between Canada and the United States, see the Focus on Canada and the United States webpage.
Explore tourism data
To further explore current and historical data in an interactive format, see Frontier Counts: Interactive Dashboard.
Episode 27 of the Eh Sayers podcast, "Canadians just aren't California Dreamin' these days," is also available.
For more current estimates of international arrivals to Canada, please see the release, "Leading indicator of international arrivals to Canada."
For other tourism-related information, see the Travel and Tourism Statistics portal.
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Note to readers
Unless otherwise specified, this release uses unadjusted (raw) data.
For more information on concepts, definitions, data sources and methods, refer to Frontier Counts.
Seasonal adjustment
Tourism is influenced by seasonal effects (e.g., holidays such as Canada Day and Thanksgiving) and calendar effects (e.g., number of weekends in a month). Seasonally adjusted data are data that have been modified to eliminate the effect of seasonal and calendar influences to allow for more meaningful comparisons of economic conditions from period to period. For more information on seasonal adjustment, see Seasonally adjusted data – Frequently asked questions.
Revisions
Data for June 2025 are preliminary and subject to revisions, as Statistics Canada is undertaking work to integrate new data sources to the Frontier Counts data program.
Seasonally adjusted data for March to May 2025 have been revised. No revisions were made to the unadjusted data.
Canada Post service disruptions
Statistics Canada will monitor the impacts of any potential Canada Post service disruption on future releases.
Next release
"Travel between Canada and other countries" for July will be released on September 23.
Products
The product "Frontier Counts: Interactive Dashboard," part of the Data Visualization Products series (71-607-X), is available.
The article "Recent changes in Canadian-resident travel to the United States" is also available.
Contact information
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