Vienna breaks record: 1.8 million overnight stays in April 2025!

Vienna breaks record: 1.8 million overnight stays in April 2025!

In April 2025, Vienna experienced an impressive increase in tourism, with around 1.8 million registered overnight stays. This number is the highest that has ever been recorded for an April in the city and exceeds the previous record from 2019 of almost 1.6 million overnight stays. Compared to the previous year, this represents an increase of 15 percent, which is partly due to the later date of Easter in 2025. According to vienna.at have also been positive, since around 5.4 million overnight stays in the capital have been counted.

The accommodation companies in Vienna were able to generate net sales of around 87.2 million euros in March 2025, which corresponds to a moderate increase of 2 percent compared to the previous year. The total income from overnight stays up to and including March amounts to around 226 million euros, which is an increase of 7 percent. The average hotel room utilization also recorded an increase of 72 percent in April 2024 to around 77 percent in April 2025. The bed utilization also rose from 55 percent in the previous year to 59.4 percent in the current year.

available hotel capacities and market analysis

In April 2025, around 80,700 hotel beds were available in Vienna, which corresponds to an increase of 5,700 beds compared to the previous year. These positive developments in the hotel industry are also reflected in the guests. The markets from the United States and Spain in particular showed significant growth rates with 32 percent and 33 percent compared to the previous year. Tourism in Vienna thus proves to be a rapidly growing sector that works towards a healthy comeback after the Pandemic phase.

According to the Tourism Statistics of the Vienna Chamber of Commerce, the most important markets have been listed in the previous course of the year as follows:

• Austria: 301,000 overnight stays (+3%)
• Germany: 367,000 overnight stays (+19%)
• USA: 102,000 overnight stays (+32%)
• Spain: 49,000 overnight stays (+33%)
• Ukraine: 26,000 overnight stays (+43%)

These statistics not only illustrate the grown interest in Vienna as a travel destination, but also the diverse composition of international visitors. As the Numbers from Wien.info , the city is on a promising path to the recovery in the tourism sector, which is a positive prognosis for the coming months.