Germany leads Hurghada airport arrivals with 1.1 million tourists in ten months
Al-Masry Al-Youm, citing a copy of the arrivals-by-nationality report, puts total arrivals at Hurghada International Airport at 3,802,612 between 1 January and 31 October.
3 November 2026
German travellers were the largest group arriving at Hurghada International Airport in the first ten months of 2026, with 1,102,057 arrivals, according to figures from a tourist-arrivals-by-nationality report seen by Al-Masry Al-Youm.
The same report puts total arrivals at the airport at 3,802,612 from 1 January to 31 October 2026.
The ten largest markets
- Germany: 1,102,057
- Russia: 817,920
- Poland: 380,866
- United Kingdom: 306,223
- Czech Republic: 171,872
- Romania: 169,849
- France: 98,083
- Austria: 97,359
- Switzerland: 94,274
- Netherlands: 89,748
Smaller European markets listed include Belgium with 65,201 arrivals, Hungary with 50,162, Slovakia with 47,514, Denmark with 39,195, Belarus with 32,677 and Lithuania with 30,430. Italy recorded 14,711 and Sweden 13,984.
Sayed El-Gabry, head of the Red Sea Chamber of Tourism Companies, said the figures show the weight of the European and Russian markets for Hurghada, and singled out the German market after German arrivals passed one million in ten months. He described the current season as the strongest in close to ten years.
Mohamed Shamroukh, a tourism expert quoted alongside him, said occupancy at hotels and resorts was reaching about 95 per cent as the winter season began, according to the data he cited.