Canadian travel to the U.S. slowed in June of this year compared to May, but was still a fair bit higher than June of 2025.
New figures released today (July 13) by Statistics Canada show that, for June of 2026, return trips to Canada from the U.S. were up 3.2% over June of last year. Return trips by car were up 5.2%, while returning trips by air were down 3.8%.
Stats Canada said the June figures mark the third month in a row that return trips to Canada from the States were up over the previous year’s figures.
For May, return trips from the U.S. to Canada were up 9.1% compared to May of 2025. Return trips to Canada from the U.S. by car were up 15.1% in May, while return air trips were down 5.5%.
For April of this year Canadian residents returned from 2.4 million trips to the United States, an increase of 1.8% from the same month one year earlier and the first rise since January 2025.
That means that in April, return trips from the U.S. rose 1.8%. In May they jumped 9.1%, while in June they settled back to 3.2%.
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It’s too early to say Canadians are settling back into normal travel patterns, and we’re still a ways away from historic norms of cross-border travel.
Stats Canada said the June, 2026 figures for Canadian visits to the States are nearly 29% below those in June of 2024. Car trips in June of this year were down 29.6% from June, 2024 levels, while air trips were down 25.0%, Stats Can said.
Still, the trend is perhaps reversing a bit, and that’s positive news for Canadian airlines and for U.S. tourism and travel.
Canadian-resident return trips from overseas countries by air totalled 873,200 in June 2026, a slight decrease (-0.4%) from the same month one year earlier.
Stats Canada today also noted that US-resident trips to Canada increased 5.1% in June,. This marked the fifth consecutive month of year-over-year increase.
In June, US resident car trips to Canada jumped 7.6%, but return air trips fell 0.3%.
