Overnight stays at hotels in Iceland in June were nearly 654,000 or approximately 13.5% more than in 2024 when they were nearly 576,000, according to preliminary data from Statistics Iceland. Overnight stays increased in all regions and proportionally most in the South (23.0%). Significant growth also occurred in the East (19.4%) and West and Westfjords (16.9%). Overnight stays increased by 10.7% in the Capital region but more modest growth was in the North (5.9%) and Southwest (4.0%). Overall, overnight stays increased by roughly 28 thousand in the Capital region and nearly 50 thousand in other regions combined, of which roughly 33 thousand were in the South.
Foreign overnight stays in hotels were nearly 592,000, or 91% of total overnight hotel stays, which was a 15.3% increase from the previous year. Domestic stays decreased by 1.5% from a year ago to total approximately 62,000. Most of all overnight stays belonged to citizens of the United States of America and in July those increased by 7.7% compared with the same month in 2024. Overnight stays by other nationalities also increased considerably, primarily Germany (13.8%), the United Kingdom (18.4%) and China (86.2%). In the first seven months of the year foreign overnight stays in hotels increased by a total of 7.4%. Domestic stays, however, declined by 2.9% during the same months.
Overall supply of hotel bedrooms increased by 3.3% in the country in July. The greatest increase was in the South (10.4%). In the North supply grew by 3.0% and 2.5% in the West and Westfjords region. Little changes were in other regions as the supply increased by 0.7% in the Capital region, remained unchanged in the Southwest and declined by 0.9% in the East. In total, there were 181 hotels operating in July 2025 with a total of roughly 12,500 rooms which was a moderate increase from a year ago when there were 177 hotels operating in the country. A total of 60 hotels operated in the Capital region in July with a total of 5,621 rooms and 52 in the South with 3,092 rooms.
Occupancy rates of hotel rooms increased in all regions and by a total of 7.9 percentage points for the whole country. Rates increased most in the East (19.2 percentage points) but significant growth was also in the West and Westfjords (10.5 percentage points). In the South occupancy rates rose by 8.0 percentage points and 7.8 percentage points in the Capital region. Lastly, rates grew by 5.2 percentage points in the Southwest and 4.0 percentage points in the North. The highest occupancy rates were in the East (96.6%) and the South (94.2%).
All accommodations
When all accommodations are considered the total number of registered overnight stays in July were roughly 1,755,000. This was 16.5% higher than in July of 2024 when overnight stays were roughly 1,506,000. Most of overnight stays were registered in hotels and guesthouses or nearly 887,000 (654,000 in hotels and 233,000 in guesthouses). The rest, or approximately 868,000, was attributable to other types of accommodation (camping sites, cottages, etc.). In the first seven months of the year accumulated overnight stays totalled 5,739,000 which was 8.1% more than during the same period in 2024.
Revision of data categorisation by nationality
Data on overnight stays by nationality is currently undergoing revisions. While this analysis is in process limited amount on data by nationality will be published. As of this publication only data on hotel overnight stays includes categorisation by nationality. It should also be noted that all data is preliminary and can change in the coming monthly publications. Also, data registered from accommodations can include number of overnight stays that are not attributable to any nationality. In such cases, the data is distributed proportionally on to already recorded nationalities.
Furthermore, data on overnight stays by nationality is used as input in estimating the number of unlisted overnight stays. For that reason, it is also not possible to publish results on the number of unlisted overnight stays for the month of July 2025.
About the data
All numbers for 2025 are preliminary except data on overnight stays at hotels which are preliminary for July 2025.
Statistics [https://statice.is/statistics/business-sectors/tourism/accommodation/]