May 2025 Key Statistics
May 2025
-17,300 vs 2024
-29,600
up from 4.0
Year-to-date
-23,600 (-14%) vs 2024
-63,800 (-10%)
up from 4.0
📅 Release date: 14 July 2025 | 📅 Next release date: 14 August 2025
May 2025 Summary
- Visits: An estimated 53,300 visits were made in May 2025, down 17,300 compared with May 2024. The 14% year-to-date decline is driven by drops in April and May, while January to March visits remained flat year-on-year. The overall fall was primarily due to 17,400 fewer sea visitors year-to-date.
- Bed Nights and Length of Stay: Visitor nights fell by 29,600 in May and were down 10% year-to-date to May. The average length of stay was 4.3 nights year-to-date to May, increasing from 4.0 nights over the same period in 2024.
- Passengers: In May 2025, 93,700 passengers departed Jersey, a 15,100 decline from 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.
May 2025
Jersey received an estimated 53,300 visits in May 2025, 17,300 fewer than in May 2024 (-24%).
This included:
- Overnight stays: 46,100 (-14,900)
- Day visits: 7,200 (-2,400)
By travel type:
- By air: 34,700 (-5,600)
- By sea: 18,600 (-11,600)
There were an estimated 27,700 overnight leisure visits in May 2025, 14,600 fewer than in May 2024.
Year-to-date to May 2025
An estimated 149,100 visits to Jersey were made in the year to May 2025, 23,600 fewer than in 2024 (-14%).
This included:
- Overnight stays: 130,900 (-16% or -25,200)
- Day visits: 18,100 (+10% or +1,700)
By travel type:
- By air: 114,600 (-5% or -6,100)
- By sea: 34,400 (-34% or -17,400)
By purpose of visit:
- Leisure: 71,500 (-28% or -27,400)
- Visiting friends/relatives: 35,800 ( -2% or -700)
- Business: 25,200 (+17% or +3,700)
- Other: 16,600 (+5% or +800)
By country of residence:
- United Kingdom: 107,900 (-7% or -7,700)
- France: 18,300 (-39% or -11,600)
- Other Channel Islands: 9,500 (-26% or -3,300)
(Other countries not shown due to small sample size)
There were an estimated 62,100 overnight leisure visits in the year to May 2025, 24,500 fewer than in May 2024.
Bed Nights & Length of Stay
Source: Visitor Volume Survey, Visit Jersey and 4insight.
May 2025
Visitors spent an estimated 211,300 visitor bed nights in Jersey in May 2025, 29,600 fewer nights than in May 2024 (-12%).
- Average length of stay: 4.6 nights (4.0 in 2024)
Year-to-date to May 2025
In the year to May 2025, there were an estimated 560,600 visitor bed nights in Jersey, 63,800 fewer than in 2024 (-10%).
- Average length of stay: 4.3 nights (4.0 in 2024)
Passenger Departures
Source: Visitor Volume Survey, Visit Jersey, 4insight and Ports of Jersey.
May 2025
An estimated 93,700 passengers departed Jersey in May 2025, 15,100 fewer than in May 2024. Passengers include residents travelling.
Visitors made up 57% of departing passengers in May 2025.
Year-to-date to May 2025
In the year to May 2025, there were an estimated 317,100 departing passengers from Jersey, 23,600 fewer than in 2024 (-7%).
Visitors made up 47% of departing passengers year to date to May 2025.
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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