Yesterday I created a graphic showing Canadian visitors to the US over time, today I wanted to expand that topic by also showing Canadian visitors to all other countries.

The top graph is raw numbers by week, the bottom graphic is the percentage of US vs non US travelers. I also included total July numbers for every year in the top graphic for reference.

Created with excel. US data is combined automobile crossings and air, all other countries are air only.

Sources: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/cv.action?pid=2410005701
And
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/cv.action?pid=2410005601

Posted by TA-MajestyPalm

12 comments

  1. It would be helpful to know where they are visiting other than the US.

  2. Yesterday I created a graphic showing Canadian visitors to the US over time, today I wanted to expand that topic by also showing Canadian visitors to all other countries.

    The top graph is raw numbers by week, the bottom graphic is the percentage of US vs non US travelers. I also included total July numbers for every year in the top graphic for reference.

    Some trends…

    – There is a significant drop in US visitors in 2025 vs 2023 & 2024. 1 million less in July 2025 vs 2024. In my opinion, this seems to be a clear result of the current US admin’s policies, intentional or not.

    – There is also a more gradual increase in Canadians visiting All Other Countries, starting “post covid”. In my opinion the reasons for this are less clear, but I suspect it is partially due to Canada having an increasing amount of immigrants (1 in 4 people) mostly from India/China, visiting home. This graphic only counts Canadian “residents”.

    Created with excel. US data is combined automobile crossings and air, all other countries are air only.

    Sources: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/cv.action?pid=2410005701
    And
    https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/cv.action?pid=2410005601

  3. Does this include airport layovers?

    I’m willing to visit the US to use an airport to another country – but refuse to purchase accommodations or give them my tourist dollars.

  4. This doesnt seem to show much or a drop at all, at least visually. I know the July #s are huge, which is saying something considering thats the middle of summer, but overall it seems largely the same. I assume a lot of this is just due to standard cross border traffic and trade that will likely take a long time to shift?

  5. Note: in this post “Canadian” means “resident of Canada,” not “Canadian citizen.”

    This may not seem like a huge distinction but Google AI notes about 11% of Canadian citizens live outside Canada. Many if not most of us (I am one) return to Canada with some frequency (all my family lives there so I visit 1-2x a year) but count as visitors.

  6. We need to make that red section in the percentage larger.

  7. Looks like visitors to the US are at pre-Covid levels now. Definitely too many.

  8. I’m gonna be honest- as a Canadian, most people I talk to still visit the US as frequently as they used to. It’s not about politics- it’s about ease of travel

  9. If the data was available, I’d be curious to see personal travel vs business.

    I have had to go to the US many times for work, but our most recent vacation was changed to a Canadian destination.

  10. Why did the data change? Yesterday 2025 was 1.6m today it’s 2m?

  11. My wife is Canadian. Her friends complain and worry, and then come anyway. No change in travel but lots of change in vocalization about travel.

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