The Eurosummer season is getting longer and more popular. These 4 charts show how and where Americans are vacationing.

Whether it's dining gelato under the Mediterranean sun or exploring a medieval city, North Americans can't get adequate of summer trips to Europe.

Business Insider analyzed data from Cirium, an aviation analytics firm, to create four charts that display how Eurosummer is on the rise — and which destinations are the trendiest.

We looked at the figure of seats on flights from North America to Europe. Unlike fair measuring the figure of flights, this additionally accounts for the airplanes' capacity.

In July 2026, airlines scheduled 69% additional seats than in July 2010. Meanwhile, the figure of flights went up 59%, from approximately 15,700 to 24,900.

As the data is according to escape schedules, it does not necessarily display anywhere tourists are most enthusiastic to go, but passenger petition motionless informs anywhere airlines dispatch their fleets and initiate new routes.

Cirium's data additionally display that the summer highest is becoming additional pronounced than winter travel. In 2026, capability risen 77% between January and July, compared alongside 50% in 2010.

However, there is additionally evidence that the summer journey period is getting longer, as additional group choose to fly afterward in the year.

Spanish authorities data display that the figure of Americans arriving in the nation risen by 57% between October 2019 and October 2025, during general arrivals during the summer months risen by a quarter.

Which countries are becoming additional popular?

The UK has lengthy been the most famous transatlantic market — its 15 myriad annual seats are nearly twice those of France and Germany — because of powerful endeavor links and transporter partnerships that create it a helpful hub connecting to destinations elsewhere in Europe.

To discover anywhere additional North Americans are flocking, we focused on changes in escape capability between the years ending in July 2023 and July 2026. This additionally helps minimize the assortment in improvement times from the pandemic.

That enlargement has not been dispersed evenly throughout Europe.

Only four countries saw small seats throughout the period. There are no longer any flights to Ukraine because of the war, during Norway and Sweden the two dropped complete half, and Belgium dipped by 3%.

Three countries saw complete 1 myriad seats added in that time. Unsurprisingly, they are already Europe's most famous for tourists: Italy, Spain, and France.

However, percent growth shows that the fastest-growing markets are not all traditional hot spots.

We excluded destinations alongside small than 10,000 scheduled seats in the twelvemonth ending July 2023, so that small basis numbers wouldn't skew the results related to busier destinations.

It is apparent that tourists are besotted alongside Italy. Airlines added additional seats there than to any another European country, and it classified fourth for proportional addition — up 52%.

Czechia and Croatia remain out as the lone two countries anywhere airlines are sending at smallest twice the capability they had in the twelvemonth ending July 2023. Over the former year, airlines have relaunched routes to Prague, known for its striking medieval Gothic architecture. Croatia additionally offers a dose of historic attractions affirmative a presenter of beaches on the Adriatic Sea.

While the UK as a entire saw lone a 4% addition in the figure of seats, capability on flights to Scotland risen by 70%. As fine as the Highlands' mountainous vistas, Edinburgh attracts visitors from throughout the earth for its performing-arts celebration in August.

Ireland additionally continues to increase in popularity. Dublin and Shannon are the lone European airports anywhere you can cross the American border before taking off for the US.

Denmark is propping up journey to Scandinavia, gratitude to fashionable Copenhagen and new flights to Billund, residence of Lego.

Which European cities are the trendiest?

The image gets additional particular whenever you zoom into the airfield level. We excluded airports that weren't served pre-pandemic or had small than 10,000 seats in the twelvemonth ending July 2023.

Flights to Naples, Italy, now have area for additional than five times as many passengers as in the twelvemonth ending July 2023. In the former few years, United Airlines, American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, and Air Canada have all launched new routes to the residence of pizza and the gateway to the picturesque Amalfi Coast.

Dubrovnik, a coastal Croatian city known for its medieval walls, established fame in the 2010s as a filming location for "Game of Thrones," but it has continued to soar in popularity.

While flights to France as a entire saw lone a 16% addition in capacity, three French airports made the top 10.

Portugal is additionally proving popular, alongside two cities on the list. Last summer, United launched flights from Newark to Faro, the chief of Portugal's seaside Algarve region. And in August, American Airlines said it volition commencement flying to Porto for the archetypal period ever, starting March 2027.