How many tourists visit Mallorca and the Balearic Islands each year, and how long they stay — the official Eurostat figures through 2024, updated and free to cite.
How many tourists visit Mallorca and the Balearic Islands, and how many nights they stay — the official figures from Eurostat, updated for 2024. Mallorca is the largest and most-visited of the Balearic Islands, so these regional totals are dominated by Mallorca; island-only figures are published by IBESTAT.
- 2024 was a record year: 14.8 million arrivals and 73.8 million nights — both above pre-pandemic 2019.
- About 90% of stays are international: 66.6M of 73.8M nights in 2024 were by foreign residents.
- Tourism collapsed to 7.7M nights in 2020 (COVID), recovered to near-2019 levels by 2022, and set records in 2024.
Nights spent — Balearic Islands (Illes Balears · NUTS-2 ES53)
| Year | Total | International | International % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 68,376,034 | 62,281,475 | 91.1% |
| 2020 | 7,689,424 | 5,007,712 | 65.1% |
| 2021 | 30,856,007 | 25,353,286 | 82.2% |
| 2022 | 65,373,745 | 58,219,797 | 89.1% |
| 2023 | 68,791,810 | 61,684,152 | 89.7% |
| 2024 | 73,845,222 | 66,582,889 | 90.2% |
Arrivals — Balearic Islands (Illes Balears · NUTS-2 ES53)
| Year | Total | International | International % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 12,425,741 | 10,703,104 | 86.1% |
| 2020 | 1,780,773 | 971,257 | 54.5% |
| 2021 | 6,135,921 | 4,587,823 | 74.8% |
| 2022 | 12,767,642 | 10,733,354 | 84.1% |
| 2023 | 13,462,198 | 11,474,034 | 85.2% |
| 2024 | 14,823,260 | 12,720,746 | 85.8% |