The Day by day — Travel between Canada and different nations, June 2026

Released: 2026-08-20

Highlights

In June, the variety of Canadian-resident return journeys from the United States elevated 5.0% yr over yr, whereas journeys to Canada by US residents rose 6.1%.

The variety of Canadian-resident return journeys from abroad edged up 0.2% in June in contrast with the identical month a yr earlier. Meanwhile, journeys to Canada by abroad residents elevated 3.4%.

Using seasonally adjusted information, the variety of Canadian-resident return journeys from overseas (from the United States and abroad nations) rose barely in June (+0.6%) in contrast with May, whereas the variety of US-resident arrivals (-3.5%) and overseas-resident arrivals (-1.1%) decreased in June.

Trips overseas by Canadian residents proceed to extend

Canadian-resident return journeys from overseas have been up 3.6% to 3.2 million in June, marking the third straight month of year-over-year will increase.

In June, Canadian residents returned from 2.3 million journeys to the United States, representing a 5.0% year-over-year enhance and the third consecutive month of progress following 15 consecutive months of year-over-year decreases. Nonetheless, regardless of this shift in journey developments, Canadian-resident return journeys from the United States have been 24.6% beneath their June 2024 stage.

Canadian-resident return journeys from the United States by car rose 7.6% in contrast with the identical month one yr earlier to succeed in 1.7 million in June 2026, with 66.2% of those being same-day journeys. Return journeys by air continued to fall, down 1.2% yr over yr, settling at 546,500. At the identical time, return journeys by cruise ship rose 13.6% to 20,700.

Canadian residents made 906,400 return journeys from abroad nations in June, inching up 0.2% from a yr earlier.

Trips to Canada by United States residents proceed to extend

In June, US-resident journeys to Canada totalled 3.0 million, up 6.1% from the identical month in 2025 and marking the fifth consecutive month of year-over-year will increase.

Arrivals by car rose 8.1% yr over yr to 1.7 million in June 2026, with 53.5% of those arrivals being in a single day journeys. However, arrivals by air decreased 1.3% to 725,600. Meanwhile, the variety of US residents who disembarked in Canada from cruise ships rose 20.5% to 335,800 on a year-over-year foundation.

Trips to Canada by abroad residents enhance, and Oceania information its largest year-over-year acquire for the month of June since 2010

In June, 811,000 abroad residents arrived in Canada, up 3.4% from the identical month one yr earlier. The majority (85.2%) of those arrivals have been by air.

By quantity, arrivals from Europe (+23,900; +7.4%), the Americas (excluding the United States) (+9,800; +8.5%) and Oceania (+7,900; +16.2%) drove the year-over-year enhance in overseas-resident arrivals in June. These will increase greater than offset the lower in arrivals from Asia (-15,700; -6.1%). For Oceania, this marked the most important year-over-year enhance for June since 2010 (excluding the COVID-19 pandemic interval). This acquire coincided with the 2026 FIFA World Cup, throughout which Australia and New Zealand performed three matches in Vancouver.

In June, the highest three nations of residence for abroad guests have been the United Kingdom, India and France, which collectively accounted for 27.7% of all abroad arrivals in Canada.

Seasonally adjusted arrivals

Tourism is influenced by seasonal and calendar results. All statistics on this part are based mostly on seasonally adjusted information (for extra data, see the Note to readers).

On a month-to-month foundation, the variety of Canadian-resident return journeys from overseas edged up 0.6% in June. Although Canadian residents made fewer return journeys from abroad (-0.4%) within the month, this lower was offset by a rise in return journeys from the United States (+1.1%).

The total variety of arrivals in Canada by US residents decreased 3.5% in June in contrast with the earlier month, on account of fewer arrivals by car (-3.9%) and by air (-5.5%).

In June, the variety of overseas-resident arrivals in Canada decreased modestly by 1.1% on a month-to-month foundation, pushed by declines in arrivals from Europe (-1.8%) and Asia (-1.0%). At the nation stage, the general month-to-month lower was pushed by fewer guests from the United Kingdom, Mexico and Italy, offsetting the rise in guests from India.

Products

The product “Frontier Counts: Interactive Dashboard,” a part of the Data Visualization Products collection (Catalogue quantity71-607-X), is on the market.

The article “Canadian-resident travel to the United States: A year in review” is on the market.

The StatsCAN Plus articles “The Stampede: It’s not Calgary’s first rodeo” and “The World Cup: Soccer stats versus StatCan stats” can be found.

The StatsCAN Plus article “Canada’s cruise industry even keeled in 2025” and its accompanying infographic “Cruise ship tourism in Canada, 2025” can be found.

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