Geocaching in 2025: A year in review

Let’s celebrate the highlights of 2025! We’ve compiled statistics that truly showcase the geocaching community’s remarkable accomplishments this past year.

2025 Year in Review

Hides and Finds

  • On average geocachers found 69 geocaches this year
  • 1,608,335 geocachers found at least one geocache
  • May 3, 2025 had the most finds of the year with 998,663 total finds
  • Top 5 countries with the most Find logs were:
    • Germany
    • United States
    • Netherlands
    • France
    • Czechia
  • Top 5 countries with the most new geocaches in 2025:
    • United States
    • Germany
    • France
    • Canada
    • United Kingdom
  • 59,139 geocachers hid a geocache
  • 18,153 geocachers hid their first geocache
  • 15,652 geocachers hosted an Event
  • 83,059 geocachers attended an Event
  • 6,784 CITOs hosted
  • 145 Block Parties, Mega-Events, and Giga-Events
  • 12,176,889 Treasures collected
  • Geocachers awarded 3,907,429 total Favorite points
  • The global community of geocachers has 32,587,692 Favorite points available to award to caches

Community

Adventure Lab

  • 112,978 active Adventures
  • 28,414 new Adventures created
  • 10,285,412 Adventures were completed
  • Top 5 countries with the most new Adventures in 2025 were:
    • Germany
    • United States
    • United Kingdom
    • Netherlands
    • France

Here’s to a fun and adventurous 2026!

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