Macau’s casino gross gaming revenue (GGR) fell 1.2 percent year-on-year in September, extending its run of annual declines to four months.
Revenue totaled MOP18.06 billion ($2.24 billion), the lowest monthly figure this year, according to data released by the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ) on October 1st.
The September result was 17.5 percent below August’s MOP21.89 billion ($2.71 billion).
The figure was broadly in line with Citigroup’s revised forecast of MOP18 billion ($2.23 billion), which the brokerage had lowered earlier in September following a weak premium-mass table survey.
The monthly GGR decline came despite stronger visitor traffic during the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday toward the end of September. Macau recorded approximately 415,000 visitor arrivals during mainland China’s three-day break from September 25th to 27th, up 19.5 percent year-on-year, according to the Public Security Police.
For the first nine months of 2026, Macau’s casino GGR reached MOP187.116 billion ($23.19 billion), up 3.2 percent from MOP181.341 billion ($22.47 billion) in the same period last year. Cumulative growth slowed from 3.7 percent through August.
The nine-month total remained 15.1 percent below the MOP220.297 billion ($27.30 billion) recorded in the corresponding period of 2019. September GGR was 18.2 percent below the pre-pandemic monthly figure of MOP22.08 billion ($2.74 billion).
