August is Malta's busiest month, with 11.3% of 2025's tourist nights, and January the quietest, with 4.8%. July and August together carried 21.8% of the year, making Malta the least seasonal of 35 European countries we measured. June and September were almost identical, at 9.1% and 9.2%.
Malta, month by month
- Two busiest months
- Other months
When is Malta busiest, and when is it quietest?
August was the busiest month in 2025, with 11.3% of the year's tourist nights. January was the quietest, with 4.8%. That makes August 2.3 times as busy as January.1
Five months each carried less than an average month's share of 8.3%: January, February, March, November and December.
Who stays in Malta: residents or guests from abroad?
In 2025, guests living abroad spent 94.3% of Malta's tourist nights. Residents of Malta spent the rest.1
- Highest share from abroad
- Other months
The share from abroad was highest in October, at 96.1% of that month's nights, and lowest in February, at 90.1%.1
Guests from abroad spent more than half of the nights in every month of the year.
Eurostat counts guests by the country they live in, not by nationality.2
How seasonal is Malta compared with the rest of Europe?
July and August together carried 21.8% of Malta's nights. Ranked by that share, Malta is the least seasonal of the 35 European countries we measured, where 1 is the country most concentrated into its two busiest months.1
For comparison, the most seasonal country on this measure was Croatia at 54.5%, and the least seasonal was Malta at 21.8%. See all 35 countries ranked.
How full are Malta's hotels each month?
Hotel rooms were fullest in August, when 88.4% were in use, and emptiest in January, at 47.8%.3
- Fullest month
- Other months
This is Eurostat's net occupancy rate of bedrooms: bedrooms in use divided by bedrooms available. It covers hotels and similar places only, not campsites or holiday lets, so it can peak in a different month from the nights figures above.2
How long do guests stay in Malta?
Guests stayed an average of 4.4 nights each time they checked in at tourist accommodation in Malta in 2025: 12,469,412 nights across 2,828,134 arrivals.4 Across the 33 countries on this site with complete figures, the average ran from 1.5 nights in Iceland to 4.7 in Cyprus.4
This is our division of Eurostat's two counts. Eurostat counts an arrival each time a guest checks in at a place to stay, so a traveller who moves between places is counted more than once, and a whole trip is longer than the figure suggests.2
Did accommodation in Malta get more expensive in 2025?
On Eurostat's harmonised index of consumer prices, prices of accommodation services in Malta were 2.1% higher on average in 2025 than in 2024. Across the EU the rise was 4.1%.5
This measures how prices changed, not what a stay costs, so check the current price when you book. Accommodation services cover hotels, motels and inns; holiday centres, campsites and youth hostels; and other places to stay.
What are Malta's public holidays in 2026 and 2027?
In Malta, public holidays fall on 14 days in both 2026 and 2027.6 In 2026, 3 of those days are a Saturday or Sunday.6 Five of these are National Holidays (31 March, 7 June, 8 September, 21 September and 13 December). Sundays are also public holidays in Maltese law.
| Holiday | 2026 | 2027 |
|---|---|---|
| New Year's Day | Thu 1 January | Fri 1 January |
| Feast of St Paul's Shipwreck Feast of St. Paul's Shipwreck | Tue 10 February | Wed 10 February |
| Feast of St Joseph Feast of St. Joseph | Thu 19 March | Fri 19 March |
| Freedom Day Jum il-Ħelsien | Tue 31 March | Wed 31 March |
| Good Friday | Fri 3 April | Fri 26 March |
| Workers' Day | Fri 1 May | Sat 1 May |
| Sette Giugno | Sun 7 June | Mon 7 June |
| Feast of St Peter and St Paul Feast of St. Peter and St. Paul | Mon 29 June | Tue 29 June |
| Feast of the Assumption | Sat 15 August | Sun 15 August |
| Victory Day Jum il-Vittorja | Tue 8 September | Wed 8 September |
| Independence Day Jum l-Indipendenza | Mon 21 September | Tue 21 September |
| Feast of the Immaculate Conception | Tue 8 December | Wed 8 December |
| Republic Day Jum ir-Repubblika | Sun 13 December | Mon 13 December |
| Christmas Day | Fri 25 December | Sat 25 December |
We took these from the law or the government's own list, not from a holiday website, and worked out the dates that move each year, such as Easter, from the rules in the law. The dates match the European Commission's list of public holidays for 2026.7 Regional and local holidays are not included.
June or September? May or October?
June and September were almost identical, at 9.1% and 9.2%.
May was quieter than October, at 8.8% against 10.1%.
These compare months at similar distances from the summer peak. They do not account for weather, which we have not measured.
What these figures cannot tell you
These figures are good at one thing: showing when a country's registered tourist accommodation fills up. Four things they cannot do.
They miss some small places. The counts cover hotels, holiday and short-stay accommodation and campsites, but countries may exclude establishments with fewer than ten bed places, so small guesthouses can be missing.2
Nights are not queues. A national monthly total cannot see how busy one old town, beach or museum is on a given day.
They say nothing about weather or prices. A quiet month may be quiet for reasons that matter to your trip. We have not published weather data for this country. The price section shows how accommodation prices changed, not what a stay costs.
They are one year. These are 2025 figures. Patterns shift from year to year, and Eurostat revises its data as countries update their returns.
The full year
| Month | Share of year | Nights | From abroad |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 4.8% | 603,443 | 91.1% |
| February | 6.3% | 779,680 | 90.1% |
| March | 7.6% | 943,394 | 92.2% |
| April | 8.6% | 1,075,140 | 94.9% |
| May | 8.8% | 1,100,903 | 95.5% |
| June | 9.1% | 1,137,220 | 95.6% |
| July (one of the two busiest months) | 10.6% | 1,319,543 | 95.1% |
| August (one of the two busiest months) | 11.3% | 1,404,114 | 95.1% |
| September | 9.2% | 1,145,145 | 95.3% |
| October | 10.1% | 1,255,898 | 96.1% |
| November | 7.4% | 925,320 | 93.7% |
| December | 6.3% | 779,612 | 92.5% |
Total for 2025: 12,469,412 nights, 94.3% of them by guests living abroad. The two busiest months are marked. "From abroad" is the share of that month's nights spent by guests living outside Malta.
Key takeaways
- January was Malta's quietest month in 2025, with 4.8% of the year's tourist nights.
- July and August were the busiest, carrying 21.8% of the year between them.
- Malta ranks 35 of 35 European countries for seasonal concentration, where 1 is the most concentrated.
- Guests living abroad spent 94.3% of Malta's 2025 tourist nights; residents spent the rest.
- Hotel rooms were fullest in August (88.4% in use) and emptiest in January (47.8%).
- Public holidays in Malta fall on 14 days in both 2026 and 2027.
- June and September were almost identical, at 9.1% and 9.2%.
- What we would skip: choosing between June and September on crowds alone. In Malta they were 9.1% and 9.2%.
Sources
Every figure on this page comes from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, which receives it from each country's national statistical authority. We downloaded the monthly counts directly and calculated the shares, rankings and comparisons ourselves. See how we research.
- Source: Eurostat, Nights spent at tourist accommodation establishments – monthly data, doi:10.2908/TOUR_OCC_NIM, accessed 25 September 2026. Dataset last updated by Eurostat on 22 September 2026. Extract: number of nights, NACE codes I55.1–I55.3, all guests and split by guests resident in the country and abroad, January–December 2025.
- Eurostat, Tourist accommodation reference metadata, on collection by national authorities under Regulation (EU) 692/2011, the definition of a night spent, country of residence, and the ten-bed-place threshold. Read it. Checked 17 September 2026.
- Source: Eurostat, Net occupancy rate of bed-places and bedrooms in hotels and similar accommodation – monthly data, doi:10.2908/TOUR_OCC_MNOR, accessed 22 September 2026. Extract: bedrooms, percentage, January–December 2025.
- Source: Eurostat, Arrivals at tourist accommodation establishments – monthly data, doi:10.2908/TOUR_OCC_ARM, with the nights data (tour_occ_nim), accessed 25 September 2026. Extract: number of arrivals and nights, NACE codes I55.1–I55.3, all guests, January–December 2025. Average stay is our calculation: nights divided by arrivals.
- Source: Eurostat, HICP – annual data (average index and rate of change), doi:10.2908/PRC_HICP_AIND, accessed 22 September 2026. Extract: accommodation services (COICOP CP112), annual average rate of change, 2025.
- Public holidays: National Holidays and other Public Holidays Act (Cap. 252), art. 2 and Schedule, consolidated text of 12 February 2021 (legislation.mt). Read it. Accessed 23 September 2026.
- European Commission, Public holidays 2026, Official Journal of the European Union C/2025/6771, ELI. Used only as a cross-check. Accessed 23 September 2026.
Modified data. The monthly shares, residence shares, rankings and comparisons are our own calculations from Eurostat's counts. Percentages are rounded to one decimal place, so they may not add exactly. Eurostat bears no responsibility for these calculations or for how the figures are presented here.