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Table 2-8: Top 15 States Visited by Canadians, 2012

Thursday, August 28, 2014
2012 rank State visited Visits (thousands) Nights (thousands) Average nights Spending ($C millions)
1 New York 4,263 11,461 2.7 1,676
2 Florida 3,559 71,428 20.1 4,367
3 Washington 2,933 7,703 2.6 853
4 Michigan 1,612 4,368 2.7 444
5 Nevada 1,587 7,587 4.8 1,440
6 California 1,543 15,291 9.9 1,506
7 Pennsylvania 975 2,420 2.5 265
8 Maine 928 3,034 3.3 352
9 Montana 776 2,558 3.3 270
10 North Dakota 761 1,587 2.1 266
11 Arizona 728 15,108 20.8 917
12 Minnesota 696 1,880 2.7 255
13 Massachusetts 691 2,653 3.8 332
14 Vermont 667 1,798 2.7 158
15 Virginia 652 2,307 3.5 154

NOTE: On average in 2012, 1.040 Canadian Dollars equaled 1 U.S. Dollar, http://www.irs.gov/Individuals/International-Taxpayers/Yearly-Average-Currency-Exchange-Rates

SOURCE: Statistics Canada, Travel by Canadians to the United States, Top 15 States Visited (2012), http://www.statcan.gc.ca/tables-tableaux/sum-som/l01/cst01/arts39a-eng.htm, as of January 2014