December 2025 Key Statistics
Methodology update: In 2025, the Exit Surveys methodology was refined to provide the most accurate possible reflection of visitor numbers. A new weighting approach was introduced to better account for flight scheduling and the balance between residents and visitors. While overall trends remain consistent, figures from 2025 are not directly comparable with those from previous years. Further information on the Exit Surveys methodology can be found here.
December 2025
-4,600 vs 2024
-2,700
-17,100
down from 3.9 nights
Year-to-date
-102,000 (-18%) vs 2024
-74,600 (-24%)
-247,100 (-11%)
up from 4.3 nights
📅 Release date: 16 February 2026 | 📅 Next release date: 23 March 2026
December 2025 Summary
- Visits: An estimated 18,000 visits were made in December 2025, down 4,600 compared with December 2024. The 18% year-to-date decline is driven by drops from April through to December, while visits from January to March remained flat year-over-year.
- Bed Nights and Length of Stay: Visitor nights fell by 17,100 in December and were down 11% year-to-date to December. The average length of stay was 3.7 nights year-to-date to December, down from 3.9 nights over the same period in 2024.
- Passengers: In December 2025, 60,800 passengers departed Jersey, 300 more than the previous year.
Counting of Visits: The statistics represent the number of visits or passenger journeys, not the number of unique individuals. Therefore, individuals who travel multiple times within the reporting period are counted on each occasion.
Estimates and Rounding: These figures are estimates derived from sample surveys and are subject to sampling variability. The data are rounded to the nearest 100 to reflect the inherent uncertainty. As a result, the sum of individual components may not precisely match the reported totals.
Visits
Source: Visitor Volume Survey, Visit Jersey and 4insight.
December 2025
Jersey received an estimated 18,000 visits in December 2025, 4,600 fewer than in December 2024 (-21%).
This included:
- Overnight stays: 16,700 (-3,200)
- Day visits: 1,300 (-1,500)
By travel type:
- By air: 16,400 (-400)
- By sea: 1,500 (-4,300)
There were an estimated 4,800 overnight leisure visits in December 2025, 2,700 fewer than in December 2024.
Year-to-date to December 2025
An estimated 465,800 visits to Jersey were made in the year to December 2025, 102,000 fewer than in 2024 (-18%).
This included:
- Overnight stays: 419,000 (-16% or -79,900)
- Day visits: 46,800 (-32% or -22,100)
By travel type:
- By air: 341,600 (-12% or -47,700)
- By sea: 124,100 (-30% or -54,300)
By purpose of visit:
- Leisure: 263,900 (-28% or -101,000)
- Visiting friends/relatives: 103,400 ( -7% or -7,800)
- Business: 65,000 (+18% or +9,800)
- Other: 33,400 (-8% or -3,100)
By country of residence:
- United Kingdom: 338,200 (-13% or -49,000)
- France: 50,000 (-47% or -43,900)
- Other Channel Islands: 27,900 (-25% or -9,400)
- Germany: 15,300 (+1% or +200)
(Other countries not shown due to small sample size)
There were an estimated 236,700 overnight leisure visits in the year to December 2025, 74,600 fewer than in December 2024.
Bed Nights & Length of Stay
Source: Visitor Volume Survey, Visit Jersey and 4insight.
December 2025
Visitors spent an estimated 60,900 visitor bed nights in Jersey in December 2025, 17,100 fewer nights than in December 2024 (-22%).
- Average length of stay: 3.7 nights (down from 3.9 in 2024)
Year-to-date to December 2025
In the year to December 2025, there were an estimated 1,915,300 visitor bed nights in Jersey, 247,100 fewer than in 2024 (-11%).
- Average length of stay: 4.6 nights (up from 4.3 in 2024)
Passenger Departures
Source: Visitor Volume Survey, Visit Jersey, 4insight and Ports of Jersey.
December 2025
An estimated 60,800 passengers departed Jersey in December 2025, 300 more than in December 2024. Passengers include residents travelling.
Visitors made up 29% of departing passengers in December 2025.
Year-to-date to December 2025
In the year to December 2025, an estimated 933,600 passengers departed from Jersey, 79,300 fewer than in 2024 (-8%).
As of December 2025, visitors made up 50% of departing passengers year-to-date.
Downloadable Data
About the Visitor Volume Survey
The Visitor Volume Survey collects data from departing passengers to estimate total visits, trip purpose, visitor origin, and bed nights.
Key points:
- Conducted monthly at ports and airport departures
- Results weighted to match actual passenger volumes
- Visitor figures exclude returning residents
- Research ceased in March 2020 due to the pandemic and restarted in 2022
- Subject to revision as more data becomes available
- Survey estimates are derived from sample data and include a margin of error due to sampling variability
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