Focus on Canada and the United States: Travel
Data and insights on travel between Canada and the United States.
Features
Leading indicator of international arrivals to Canada, June 2025
In June 2025, the number of arrivals to Canada by US residents by air decreased 0.7% from the same month in 2024, while arrivals by automobile decreased 10.4%.
Frontier Counts: Interactive Dashboard
The Frontier Counts: Interactive Dashboard provides access to data on the number of border crossings in an interactive and customizable format. The counts include only those travelling for tourism-related purposes.
Recent changes in Canadian-resident travel to the United States
In 2024, Canadian-resident trips to the United States totalled 39 million, representing 75% of all Canadian-resident travel abroad. However, recent data on foreign travel suggest that Canadians' travel sentiment toward their southern neighbour has been shifting in early 2025.
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Release date | Product | Release type | Release sub-type |
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7/23/2025 |
Data table By country of residence, mode of transportation, arrival type and traveller type Data product |
Data product | Data table |
7/23/2025 |
Data table By type of transportation and traveller type, seasonally-adjusted Data product |
Data product | Data table |
7/23/2025 |
Data table By type of transportation and traveller type Data product |
Data product | Data table |
7/23/2025 |
Table 24-10-0052-01 - Vehicles entering Canada by land, by vehicle type and licence plate Data table By vehicle type and licence plate Data product |
Data product | Data table |
7/23/2025 |
Data table By country of residence, seasonally-adjusted Data product |
Data product | Data table |
7/23/2025 |
Table 24-10-0050-01 - Non-resident visitors entering Canada, by country of residence Data table By country of residence Data product |
Data product | Data table |
7/23/2025 |
Travel between Canada and other countries, May 2025 The Daily In May, Canadian residents returned from 2.3 million trips to the United States, representing a 31.9% decrease from the same month in 2024 and accounting for 67.7% of all trips taken by Canadian residents in May 2025. Analytical product |
Analytical product | The Daily |
7/31/2025 |
Table 23-10-0312-01 - Screened passenger traffic at the largest airports in Canada Data table Transborder (to the United States) sector passengers Data product |
Data product | Data table |
7/31/2025 |
Screened passenger traffic at Canadian airports, June 2025 The Daily In June 2025, transborder passengers accounted for 24.7% of the total number of screened passengers, down from 26.7% in June 2024. Analytical product |
Analytical product | The Daily |
7/24/2025 |
Aviation Data Visualization Hub: Aircraft Movements Interactive dashboard This dashboard provides data on aircraft movements at Canada’s major airports and select small airports in an interactive format, for the last five years. It allows users to compare aircraft movements by geography, class of operation, type of operation, sector (domestic, transborder and other international) and highlights the busiest airports by amount of activity. Data visualization |
Data visualization | Interactive dashboard |
7/24/2025 |
Data table Transborder aircraft movements (to and from the United States) Data product |
Data product | Data table |
7/24/2025 |
Data table Transborder aircraft movements (to and from the United States) Data product |
Data product | Data table |
7/24/2025 |
Aircraft movement and civil aviation statistics, May 2025 The Daily Transborder aircraft movements (to and from the United States) represented 9.7% of total itinerant movements at Canada's major and select small airports in May, down from 10.1% in May 2024. Analytical product |
Analytical product | The Daily |
2025-07-10 |
Leading indicator of international arrivals to Canada, June 2025 The Daily In June 2025, the number of arrivals to Canada by US residents by air decreased 0.7% from the same month in 2024, while arrivals by automobile decreased 10.4%. Meanwhile, Canadian-resident return trips from the United States by air fell 22.1% in June 2025 compared with the same month one year earlier. Canadian-resident return trips by automobile dropped 33.1%. Analytical product |
Analytical product | The Daily |
2025-07-10 |
Frontier Counts: Interactive Dashboard Interactive dashboard The Frontier Counts: Interactive Dashboard provides access to data on the number of border crossings in an interactive and customizable format. The counts include only those travelling for tourism-related purposes. Data visualization |
Data visualization | Interactive dashboard |
2025-07-10 |
Data table By air, by country of residence and traveller type Data product |
Data product | Data table |
2025-07-10 |
Data table By land, by vehicle type, vehicle licence plate and traveller type Data product |
Data product | Data table |
2025-07-10 |
Data table American-plated vehicles entering Canada Data product |
Data product | Data table |
2025-07-10 |
Data table American-plated trucks entering Canada Data product |
Data product | Data table |
2025-06-27 |
Screened passenger traffic at Canadian airports, May 2025 The Daily In May 2025, transborder passengers accounted for 23.6% of the total number of screened passengers, down from the 26.2% recorded in May 2024. Analytical product |
Analytical product | The Daily |
2025-06-27 |
Table 23-10-0312-01 - Screened passenger traffic at the largest airports in Canada Data table Transborder (to the United States) sector passengers Data product |
Data product | Data table |
2025-06-26 |
Aircraft movement and civil aviation statistics, April 2025 The Daily Transborder aircraft movements (to and from the United States) represented 10.1% of total itinerant movements at Canada's major and select small airports in April 2025, down from the 10.9% recorded in April 2024. Analytical product |
Analytical product | The Daily |
2025-06-26 |
Aviation Data Visualization Hub: Aircraft Movements Interactive dashboard This dashboard provides data on aircraft movements at Canada’s major airports and select small airports in an interactive format, for the last five years. It allows users to compare aircraft movements by geography, class of operation, type of operation, sector (domestic, transborder and other international) and highlights the busiest airports by amount of activity. Data visualization |
Data visualization | Interactive dashboard |
2025-06-26 |
Data table Transborder aircraft movements (to and from the United States) Data product |
Data product | Data table |
2025-06-26 |
Data table Transborder aircraft movements (to and from the United States) Data product |
Data product | Data table |
2025-06-25 |
Recent changes in Canadian-resident travel to the United States Economic and Social Reports In 2024, Canadian-resident trips to the United States totalled 39 million, representing 75% of all Canadian-resident travel abroad. However, recent data on foreign travel suggest that Canadians' travel sentiment toward their southern neighbour has been shifting in early 2025. Analytical product |
Analytical product | Economic and Social Reports |
2025-06-23 |
Leading indicator of international arrivals to Canada, April 2025 The Daily In April, Canadian residents returned from 2.3 million trips to the United States, representing a 29.1% decrease from April 2024 and accounting for 63.9% of all trips taken by Canadian residents in April 2025. Analytical product |
Analytical product | The Daily |
2025-06-23 |
Table 24-10-0050-01 - Non-resident visitors entering Canada, by country of residence Data table By country of residence Data product |
Data product | Data table |
2025-06-23 |
Data table By country of residence, seasonally-adjusted Data product |
Data product | Data table |
2025-06-23 |
Table 24-10-0052-01 - Vehicles entering Canada by land, by vehicle type and licence plate Data table By vehicle type and licence plate Data product |
Data product | Data table |
2025-06-23 |
Data table By type of transportation and traveller type Data product |
Data product | Data table |
2025-06-23 |
Data table By type of transportation and traveller type, seasonally-adjusted Data product |
Data product | Data table |
2025-06-23 |
Data table By country of residence, mode of transportation, arrival type and traveller type Data product |
Data product | Data table |
2025-06-10 |
Leading indicator of international arrivals to Canada, May 2025 The Daily Canadian-resident return trips by air fell 24.2% in May 2025 compared with the same month in 2024. Canadian-resident return trips by automobile dropped 38.1%—the fifth consecutive month of year-over-year declines. Analytical product |
Analytical product | The Daily |
2025-06-02 |
Screened passenger traffic at Canadian airports, April 2025 The Daily In April 2025, transborder passengers accounted for 25.5% of the total number of screened passengers, down from the 28.1% recorded in April 2024. Analytical product |
Analytical product | The Daily |
2025-05-30 |
Table 24-10-0045-01 - Travel by Canadian residents in Canada and abroad by trip purpose Data table Travel by Canadian residents in Canada and abroad by trip purpose Data product |
Data product | Data table |
2025-05-30 |
Data table By residency, trip purpose and mode of transport Data product |
Data product | Data table |
2025-05-30 |
Data table Trips and spending per trip for visitors from United States of America to Canada, by mode of transport, percent change Data product |
Data product | Data table |
2025-05-30 |
Data table By geography of visit, residency and mode of transport Data product |
Data product | Data table |
2025-05-28 |
Aircraft movement and civil aviation statistics, March 2025 The Daily Transborder aircraft movements (to and from the United States) represented 11.8% of total itinerant movements at Canada's major and select small airports in March 2025, unchanged from the level recorded in March 2024. Analytical product |
Analytical product | The Daily |
2025-05-22 |
Travel between Canada and other countries, March 2025 The Daily In March, Canadian residents returned from 2.7 million trips to the United States, representing a 24.0% decrease from Marc 2024 and accounting for 63.9% of all trips taken by Canadian residents in March 2025. Analytical product |
Analytical product | The Daily |
2025-05-12 |
Leading indicator of international arrivals to Canada, April 2025 The Daily Canadian-resident return trips by air fell 19.9% in April 2025 compared with the same month in 2024. Canadian-resident return trips by automobile dropped 35.2%—the fourth consecutive month of year-over-year declines. Analytical product |
Analytical product | The Daily |
2025-04-29 |
Aircraft movement and civil aviation statistics, February 2025 The Daily Transborder aircraft movements (to and from the United States) represented 10.7% of total itinerant movements at Canada's major and select small airports in 2023 and 11.1% in 2024. The four largest Canadian airports—Toronto/Lester B. Pearson International, Montréal/Pierre Elliot Trudeau International, Vancouver International, and Calgary International—have accounted for approximately 75% of all transborder traffic each year since 2022. Analytical product |
Analytical product | The Daily |
2025-04-29 |
Screened passenger traffic at Canadian airports, March 2025 The Daily In March 2025, transborder passengers accounted for 27.6% of the total number of screened passengers, down slightly from the 29.1% recorded in March 2024. Analytical product |
Analytical product | The Daily |
2025-04-23 |
Travel between Canada and other countries, February 2025 The Daily In February, trips to Canada by US residents decreased 5.3% year over year to 1.1 million trips. The number of trips to Canada by overseas residents fell 17.2%, the sharpest decline in a stretch of five consecutive months of year-over-year declines, which began in October 2024. Analytical product |
Analytical product | The Daily |
2025-04-10 |
Leading indicator of international arrivals to Canada, March 2025 The Daily In March 2025, Canadian residents flew back from 719,500 trips to the United States, which represented a 13.5% decline from the same month in 2024. For Canadian-resident return trips by automobile from the United States, March 2025 saw a decline of 31.9% to 1.5 million. Analytical product |
Analytical product | The Daily |
2025-03-31 |
Screened passenger traffic at Canadian airports, February 2025 The Daily In February 2025, all four of the largest airports recorded year-over-year decreases in screened passenger counts for flights to the United States: Toronto/Lester B. Pearson International (-2.5%), Vancouver International (-4.7%), Montréal/Pierre Elliott Trudeau International (-5.6%) and Calgary International (-3.7%). Analytical product |
Analytical product | The Daily |
2025-03-28 |
Aircraft movement and civil aviation statistics, January 2025 The Daily Transborder aircraft movements (to and from the United States) represented 10.7% of total itinerant movements at Canada's major and select small airports in 2023 and 11.1% in 2024. The four largest Canadian airports—Toronto/Lester B. Pearson International, Montréal/Pierre Elliot Trudeau International, Vancouver International, and Calgary International—have accounted for approximately 75% of all transborder traffic each year since 2022. Analytical product |
Analytical product | The Daily |
2025-03-21 |
Travel between Canada and other countries, January 2025 The Daily In January 2025, Canadian residents returned from 2.7 million trips to the United States, a decrease of 2.3% from January 2024. Return trips from the United States represented 66.5% of all trips taken by Canadian residents in January 2025. Analytical product |
Analytical product | The Daily |
2025-03-10 |
Leading indicator of international arrivals to Canada, February 2025 The Daily In February 2025, Canadian residents flew back from 585,700 trips to the US, which represented a 13.1% decline from the same month in 2024. For Canadian-resident return trips by automobile from the US, February 2025 saw a steep decline of 23.0% year over year to 1.2 million. Analytical product |
Analytical product | The Daily |
2025-02-27 |
Screened passenger traffic at Canadian airports, January 2025 The Daily Passengers screened for transborder (to the United States) flights at the eight largest Canadian airports represented 26.1% of the total screened passengers in 2023 and 27.4% of such passengers in 2024. Analytical product |
Analytical product | The Daily |
2025-02-21 |
Travel between Canada and other countries, December 2024 The Daily In 2024, Canadian residents took 39.0 million trips to the United States, an increase of 4.4% from 2023. Meanwhile, US residents took 23.4 million trips to Canada in 2024 (+10.7% from 2023), over half of which were trips by automobile. Analytical product |
Analytical product | The Daily |
2025-02-11 |
Leading indicator of international arrivals to Canada, January 2025 The Daily In January, the number of Canadian-resident return trips by automobile from visits to the United States totalled 1.5 million, a decline of 0.9% compared with the same month one year earlier. Analytical product |
Analytical product | The Daily |
2023-03-10 |
Glossary Definitions for terms used in Frontier Counts are based on the United Nations World Tourism Organization's International Recommendations for Tourism Statistics 2008. However, in some cases, they are modified to align with the Canadian context. Reference |
Reference | Glossary |
2023-03-07 |
Documentation Frontier Counts - Documentation Reference |
Reference | Documentation |