Marche: 10,481,674 nights in 2024, 2.25% of Italy

Marche recorded 10,481,674¹ overnight stays in 2024, 2.25%¹ of the 466,158,045² counted nationally, which is just over seven tourist nights a year for each of its 1,482,746⁴ residents.

2.25% of Italy, and under a quarter of Tuscany

The 10,481,674¹ nights spent in Marche's accommodation in 2024 are 2.25%¹ of the Italian total. Tuscany, next door, logged 46,220,821³ in the same year, 9.92%³, more than four times as many.

That gap is the most useful single fact about crowds here. The two regions share a border and a lot of the same hill-town landscape, and they don't share the same pressure.

Seven nights per resident

Marche had 1,482,746⁴ residents at December 31, 2023, in 225⁴ comuni and five provinces. Set against the 2024 nights, that is just over seven tourist nights per resident.

The two dates are a year apart, which is close enough for a ratio and not for anything finer. Nearly a third of residents, 461,629⁴ or 31.1%⁴, live in the province of Ancona.

The nights aren't broken down by province in the series used here, so it isn't possible to say whether visitors follow the same map as residents.

Arrivals by air: a running total for 2026

Ancona-Falconara airport handled 345,397⁵ passengers from January to July 2026, and 67,242⁵ of them in July. That is a cumulative figure for part of the year, and the full-year total doesn't exist yet.

July alone was nearly a fifth of the seven-month total, which is the clearest seasonal signal in the data here.

The port counts people in transit too

Ancona's port handled 817,627⁶ passengers in 2025, 739,399⁶ on ferries and 78,228⁶ on cruise ships, 12% fewer than the 927,415⁶ of 2024. The fall is partly explained by the temporary suspension of the Ancona to Split line.

A ferry passenger is counted whether or not they spend a night in Marche, so the port figure and the ISTAT nights answer different questions. Only the second measures a stay.

Why 2024 is the last comparable year

From 2025 ISTAT's accommodation survey includes non-professional rentals, and a total that grows because the count grew isn't growth. The 10,481,674¹ nights of 2024 are the last figure on the old basis, and the port comparison above also uses 2024 as its base.

Using the number

At 2.25%¹ of national nights, crowds in Marche are a matter of specific places on specific days, not of the region.

For the caves and the Conero coast, see nature and parks in Marche; for the full ranking, regions by overnight stays. More on Marche and Ancona.

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