Spain recorded more than 40.1 million hotel overnight stays in September 2026, 1.7% above the same month a year earlier, according to provisional figures released by the National Statistics Institute (INE) on 23 October. The headline increase concealed different movements by visitor residence: overnight stays by residents of Spain fell 1.9%, while those by non-residents rose 3.2%. Across the first nine months of 2026, stays were 1.5% higher year on year, including a 0.1% increase for residents and a 2.2% rise for non-residents.

The regional mix showed overseas demand concentrated in island and major coastal destinations. Spanish residents most often stayed in Andalusia, Catalonia and the Valencian Community, which accounted for 22.4%, 13.8% and 12.8% of their overnight stays, respectively. For non-residents, the Balearic Islands led with 32.5%, followed by Catalonia at 18.4% and the Canary Islands at 17.7%. Mallorca recorded more than 7.3 million overnight stays. Madrid, Barcelona and Calvià were the leading individual tourist points by overnight volume.

Occupancy and price indicators also increased. Hotels filled 67.0% of available bed places during September, 0.3 percentage points above a year earlier. Weekend occupancy reached 72.6%. The Balearic Islands had the highest occupancy among autonomous communities at 82.6%; within tourist zones, Palma-Calvià reached 85.3%, rising to 88.8% at weekends. Llucmajor had the highest occupancy among individual tourist points, at 90.1% overall and 94.2% at weekends. These local peaks should not be read as representative of every destination.

INE’s Hotel Price Index rose 6.7% year on year. Average revenue per occupied room reached €141.6, up 7.4%. That measure is revenue per occupied room, not an average price across all available rooms or a measure of total hotel turnover. Visitors from the United Kingdom and Germany accounted for 27.2% and 17.4% of non-resident overnight stays. France, the United States and the Netherlands contributed 6.9%, 4.7% and 4.6%, respectively. The figures are provisional and describe one month of hotel activity; they do not directly measure visitor spending or accommodation capacity.