Canadian trips to the United States rose for a fourth straight month in July, but the entire increase came by car. Air travel fell again and is now the lowest of the past three Julys
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Trips to the United States by Canadian residents rose for a fourth straight month in July, but the entire increase came by car, according to new federal data.
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Statistics Canada counted 2.3 million return trips from the United States last month, up 10.2 per cent from the same month in 2025, in preliminary figures released Tuesday. It was the fourth consecutive month of year-over-year growth. Automobile trips rose 12.8 per cent while air trips fell 1.4 per cent.
The agency attributed the increase largely to a base-year effect, because Canadian travel to the United States fell sharply in 2025. Measured against July 2024, before the pullback, car trips were down 28.9 per cent and air trips down 26.8 per cent. Statistics Canada said in an email that comparing a month with 2024 “helps illustrate the trend relative to the period before the trade-related conflict.” The counts show Canadians made 1.1 million fewer trips to the United States in July 2025 than in July 2024. About 210,000 of those have come back.
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