Andorra September 2026 Visitors Rise 0.4% as Overnight Stays Offset Day-Trip Decline

Andorra received 804,432 visitors in September 2026, a 0.4% increase on the 801,066 recorded in the same month a year earlier, according to data released by the statistics department.

Tourists who stayed overnight accounted for 400,482 arrivals, or 49.8% of the total, while the remaining 403,950 (50.2%) were day-trippers who entered and left the country the same day. The two categories moved in opposite directions: overnight visitors rose 3.4% year-on-year, while excursionists fell 2.3%.

By origin, Spanish visitors declined 1.6% overall, while arrivals from France grew 1.4% and those from other countries climbed 5.1%. The breakdown differs sharply between the two groups. Among overnight tourists, Spanish arrivals rose 5.2% and those from other countries 5.7%, while French visitors fell 6.3%. Among day-trippers, the steepest drop was among Spanish visitors, down 14.2%, while French excursionists grew 3.3% and those from other countries edged up 0.7%.

Over the twelve months from October 2025 to September 2026, Andorra recorded 8,900,574 visitors, a 2.9% decrease on the previous comparable period. Overnight tourists rose 2.3% to 4.38 million from 4.28 million, while day-trippers fell 7.4% to 4.52 million from 4.88 million.

Shopping remained the single biggest draw nationally, cited in 52.3% of visits, followed by nature-related activities such as mountain walks and enjoying the landscape at 12.8%. Motivations diverge by visitor type: among overnight tourists, nature led at 24.1%, ahead of wellness, health and thermal tourism at 22.5%, with shopping at 14.5% and other reasons at 13.4%. For day-trippers, shopping dominated overwhelmingly at 87.2%.

Half of all visitors travelled as couples, while 29.6% came as families and 10.3% as groups of friends. Overnight tourists stayed an average of 2.8 nights overall — 2.6 nights for visitors from Spain and France, and 3.2 nights for those from other countries. Most visitors (74%) stayed in hotels, up 10.3 percentage points on September 2025, and at this time of year opted for the central parishes.

Vehicle entries in September were estimated at 344,648, down 0.9% year-on-year. Most crossed the Spanish border (236,337), 1.4% fewer than a year earlier, while 108,311 arrived from France, a slight increase of 0.1%. Over the past twelve months, total vehicle entries are estimated at 4,026,086.

Vehicle exits totalled 329,713 in September, 4.4% fewer than in September 2025. The decline was steeper at the French border, down 10.2%, while exits through Spain fell 1.7%. Between January and September, exits are down 7.9% on the same period of 2025, with those heading to Spain down 0.3% and those crossing into France down 23.8%. An estimated 3,920,276 vehicles have left Andorra over the past twelve months.

Between January and September 2026, total vehicle entries fell 4.9% compared with the same period in 2025, from 3.16 million to just over 3 million, with entries from Spain down 0.3% and those from France down 14.8%.