This map, created by Joyce Ma for the website Visual Capitalist, shows the number of nights spent in each European country by international tourists during 2025, according to data published by Eurostat.

Following a chromatic scale, ranging from dark green to light yellow, the map depicts the countries with the fewest and most nights of accommodation dedicated to foreign tourists. This data is markedly different from the usual ranking metric, which usually measures international tourist arrivals.

At the top is Spain, with 329 million nights, followed by Italy (264 million). In third to fifth place, with very little difference between them, are Turkey (154 million), France (150 million) and the United Kingdom (149 million). Overall, the European Union will reach 1.5 billion nights during the whole of 2025, of which more than a fifth correspond to Spain.

The normalisation of these data provides another perspective that reveals the tourism pressure in each country as a whole. In terms of international tourist nights per capita, Iceland (23.9), Malta (22.2) and Croatia (21.9) occupy the top three positions, followed by Cyprus and Greece. Tourist density per square kilometre offers a different approach: Malta records 37,200 nights per km², a figure unmatched on the continent, followed at a distance by Cyprus (1,874) and the Netherlands (1,548).

Sources

• Mapped: Europe's Most Visited Countries