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Visitor International Arrivals to Singapore

Visitor International Arrivals to Singapore by Region, Monthly

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Visitor International Arrivals to Singapore by Region, Monthly

Data from Jan 1978 to Nov 2015

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:49 SGT

STB (Singapore Tourism Board)

No of visitor arrivals by Month

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VisitorInternationalArrivalstoSingaporebyRegionMonthly.csv (2.3K rows, 47.2 KB)

Month Month (YYYY-MM)	Region Text	No. Of Visitor Arrivals Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
1978-01	Asia	96164
1978-01	Europe	25643
1978-01	Americas	10105
1978-01	Oceania	32710
1978-01	Africa	587
1978-02	Asia	92829
1978-02	Europe	26929
1978-02	Americas	9996
1978-02	Oceania	17189
1978-02	Africa	354

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Month	month	Month (YYYY-MM)	-	-
Region	region	Text	-	-
No. Of Visitor Arrivals	no_of_visitor_arrivals	Numeric	No. Of Visitor Arrivals	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_96e69b04cfff3cb47998aec39947b3da"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

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Singapore Tourism Board. (2015). Visitor International Arrivals to Singapore by Region, Monthly (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved August 5, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_96e69b04cfff3cb47998aec39947b3da/view

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Created on

21 Sep 2015

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Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

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STB (Singapore Tourism Board)