BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 12. In Croatia, in July 2025, there were a total of 4.4 million tourist arrivals and 25.0 million tourist nights realised in commercial accommodation establishments, which was a decrease of 1.3 percent in tourist arrivals and of 0.8 percent in tourist nights compared to July 2024, Trend reports citing the country's Bureau of Statistics.
Foreign tourists realised 4.0 million arrivals and 23.2 million nights, which was a 1.6 percent decrease in the number of arrivals and a 0.9 percent decrease in the number of nights compared to July 2024.
Unlike foreign tourist traffic, which decreased in July, domestic tourist traffic increased slightly. In July 2025, domestic tourists realised 382,000 arrivals and 1.8 million nights, which was 1.6 percent more arrivals and 0.4 percent more nights compared to July 2024.
Tourists from Germany, Slovenia, Poland, Austria and the Czech Republic realised 54.0 percent of total foreign tourist nights in Croatia. The most foreign tourist nights in July 2025 were realised by tourists from Germany, as much as 4.4 million, which accounted for 18.8 percent of total realised foreign tourist nights. These were followed by nights realised by tourists from Slovenia (11.5 percent), Poland (9.5 percent), Austria (7.2 percent) and the Czech Republic (7.0 percent).
Most tourist nights realised in the County of Istria
In July 2025, the County of Istria once again ranked first with a total of 7.4 million realised tourist nights, which accounted for 29.5 percent of the total number of tourist nights realised in Croatia. The second place was held by the County of Split-Dalmatia, with 5.2 million realised tourist nights, and the third by the County of Primorje-Gorski Kotar, with 4.2 million tourist nights.
Crikvenica was again the most desirable destination among domestic tourists, with 72,000 realised nights, which was a decrease of 1.7 percent compared to July 2024. It was followed by Biograd na Moru, with 61,000 nights, Mali Lošinj and Vodice, with 57,000 nights each, Šibenik, with 52,000 nights, and Zadar, with 42,000 nights realised by domestic tourists.
On the other hand, Rovinj was singled out as the most desirable destination among foreign tourists, with a total of 963,000 realised tourist nights, which was 1.8 percent more than in July 2024. Other destinations popular among foreign tourists were Medulin, with 756,000 nights, Dubrovnik, with 736,000 nights, Poreč, with 727,000 nights, Umag, with 652,000 nights, and Split, with 647,000 nights realised by foreign tourists.
