How many people visit Times Square each year?
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The answer
50,000,000 visitors
Roughly 50M.
Around 50 million people pass through Times Square annually, roughly 360,000 on a busy day. That makes it one of the most visited places on the planet — more foot traffic in a year than the entire population of Spain and France combined.
How to get close to this number
Multiply a daily rate by a year. The explanation gives around three hundred and sixty thousand on a busy day; average that down for quieter days and multiply by 365, and you land in the tens of millions. Daily-rate-times-days is the reliable route for any footfall figure.
The category matters more than the number. This counts everyone who passes through, which includes commuters, workers and people walking to somewhere else — not visitors in the tourist sense. Pedestrian counts at a transport-adjacent location measure through-traffic, and treating them as attendance figures overstates the attraction enormously.
The comparison in the explanation puts it in perspective: more foot traffic in a year than the combined population of two large European countries. That framing is useful precisely because it is absurd — it forces you to notice that the figure counts passages rather than people, and that a single commuter contributes hundreds of them a year.
Where this number comes from
| Source | Times Square Alliance |
|---|---|
| Figure refers to | 2023 |
| Last checked | |
| Unit | visitors |
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