Canadian trips to U.S. by air and car continue to decline

Statistics Canada reports that in July 2025, the preliminary number of international arrivals to Canada — returning Canadian residents and non-residents combined — by air and automobile was 6.3 million, down 15.6% from July 2024.

It marked the sixth consecutive month of year-over-year declines; although while non-resident arrivals by air increased, StatsCan notes that this was not enough to offset the decline.

It reported that in July 2025, non-resident arrivals to Canada by air totaled 1.4 million, up 3.1% from July 2024.

This total comprised 714,700 arrivals by US residents (+0.7%) and 729,800 arrivals by overseas residents (+5.6%).

In July 2025, Canadian-resident return trips by air from abroad stood at 1.4 million, down 5.3% from the same month one year earlier.

And while the number of returning Canadian-resident trips from overseas countries increased 5.9% from July 2024 to 1.0 million in July 2025, the number of returning Canadian-resident trips by air from the United States declined 25.8% to 383,700.

In July 2025, the number of US-resident trips to Canada by automobile (1.8 million) declined by 7.4% from the same month in 2024 (Chart 3). This was the sixth consecutive month of year-over-year declines.

StatsCan also reported that in July 2025, the number of Canadian-resident return trips by automobile from the United States totalled 1.7 million, a steep decline (-36.9%) from the same month in 2024.

In fact, July 2025 marked the seventh consecutive month of year-over-year declines.

Focusing on Canada and the U.S., StatsCan said that in July 2025, the number of arrivals to Canada by US residents by air edged up 0.7% from the same month in 2024, while arrivals by automobile decreased 7.4%.

Meanwhile, Canadian-resident return trips from the United States by air fell 25.8% in July 2025 compared with the same month one year earlier. Canadian-resident return trips by automobile dropped 36.9%.