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Nepal: international tourist arrivals

This dossier follows Nepal’s tourist-arrival statistics and changes in source markets, distinguishing visitor numbers from revenue.

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Kathmandu, 11 March 2025. Archive illustration; does not depict October 2026 arrivals. Jaynepal7239, CC0.
Kathmandu, 11 March 2025. Archive illustration; does not depict October 2026 arrivals. Jaynepal7239, CC0. — Jaynepal7239 / Wikimedia Commons — CC0 https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ — 11 mars 2025, sans modification.

Where things stand

October figures released on 2 November 2026 put the US ahead of India. The reported monthly total is 132,814 tourists, up 3.4% year on year.

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US becomes Nepal’s largest tourist source market in October

Nepal received 132,814 international tourists in October 2026, up 3.4% from a year earlier, according to tourism-board figures released on 2 November. The United States ranked first with 17,437 visitors.

Kathmandu, 11 March 2025. Archive illustration; does not depict October 2026 arrivals. Jaynepal7239, CC0.
Kathmandu, 11 March 2025. Archive illustration; does not depict October 2026 arrivals. Jaynepal7239, CC0. — Jaynepal7239 / Wikimedia Commons — CC0 https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ — 11 mars 2025, sans modification.

India followed with 12,097 visitors, ahead of China with 11,695. US arrivals rose from 13,286 in October 2025, while arrivals from India fell from 17,298.

The Kathmandu Post obtained the tourism board’s reaction, which described the US ranking first as unprecedented. These figures describe monthly arrivals; they measure neither visitor spending nor tourism revenue.

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