Residents made more than 2 million outbound passenger trips over the first four days of the Easter break, while the number of motorists using the city’s border checkpoint for the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge hit a single-day record on Monday.
Immigration Department figures published on Tuesday showed that the number of outgoing Hong Kong residents rose by 14.34 per cent year on year to 2.12 million over the period.
This year’s Easter holiday runs from Friday to Tuesday, while the break in 2025 stretched for four days. The three-day Ching Ming Festival also overlapped with this year’s break, from Saturday to Monday.
The department recorded 411,972 inbound visitors from mainland China over the first four days of this year’s break, marking a 16.13 per cent increase. The number of visitors from other places also grew by 1.79 per cent from the corresponding period in 2025.
The outbound figure for residents could mean that up to 28 per cent of Hong Kong’s 7.51 million population departed the city.
Travellers enter the city via the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge border crossing on Tuesday, the last day of the break. Photo: Karma Lo
The department said the mega bridge’s Hong Kong checkpoint broke a single-day record for the total number of inbound and outbound car trips on Monday, at 27,411. Of those, 68 per cent were Hongkongers using the “northbound vehicle scheme”, which allows residents to drive their cars to Guangdong cities.