Southeast Asia Michelin Keys 2026: 19 Gained, 1 Lost
Southeast Asia & the Pacific gained 19 Michelin Keys in the 2026 selection and lost 1. Every hotel that lost a Key was verified against its own MICHELIN Guide page.
Across Southeast Asia & the Pacific, 19 hotels gained a MICHELIN Key or moved up a tier in the 2026 selection and one lost ground. The region's six markets ended the year with 47 Key hotels against 30. That is growth of 56.7 percent, against 15.3 percent worldwide.
Philippines accounted for seven of the region's 20 moves.
Chart: hotels in Southeast Asia & the Pacific whose MICHELIN Key standing changed between the 2025 and 2026 selections. Source: MICHELIN Guide 2026 Key selection, released 18 September 2026. Every loss shown was re-checked on that hotel's own MICHELIN Guide page.
The scoreboard
| Movement | Hotels |
|---|---|
| New Keys awarded | 18 |
| Upgraded a tier | 1 |
| Dropped a tier | 0 |
| Key removed | 1 |
| Key hotels, 2025 → 2026 | 30 → 47 (+17) |
Market by market
| Country or territory | Key hotels 2025 | Key hotels 2026 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cambodia | 10 | 12 | +2 |
| Singapore | 7 | 11 | +4 |
| Philippines | 5 | 9 | +4 |
| Malaysia | 4 | 9 | +5 |
| Fiji | 4 | 5 | +1 |
| Myanmar | 0 | 1 | +1 |
| Southeast Asia & the Pacific | 30 | 47 | +17 |
Every hotel that gained
| Hotel | Where | Country | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shinta Mani Wild | Ou Bak Rothed Commune | Cambodia | no Key | Two Keys |
| Kokomo Private Island Fiji | Yaukuve Levu Island | Fiji | no Key | Two Keys |
| El Nido Resorts Lagen Island | El Nido | Philippines | no Key | Two Keys |
| Shinta Mani Angkor - A Bensley Collection | Siem Reap | Cambodia | no Key | One Key |
| Cheong Fatt Tze - The Qing Suites | George Town | Malaysia | no Key | One Key |
| Park Hyatt Kuala Lumpur | Kuala Lumpur | Malaysia | no Key | One Key |
| Soori Penang | George Town | Malaysia | no Key | One Key |
| The Datai Langkawi | Langkawi | Malaysia | no Key | One Key |
| The Sireya Desaru Coast, Mandarin Oriental | Desaru | Malaysia | no Key | One Key |
| Wa Ale Resort | Wa Ale Island | Myanmar | no Key | One Key |
| El Nido Resorts Pangulasian Island | El Nido | Philippines | no Key | One Key |
| Hotel Okura Manila at Newport World Resorts | Manila | Philippines | no Key | One Key |
| Manami Resort | Sipalay City | Philippines | no Key | One Key |
| NUSTAR Hotel Cebu | Cebu City | Philippines | no Key | One Key |
| METT Singapore | Singapore | Singapore | no Key | One Key |
| Marina Bay Sands | Singapore | Singapore | no Key | One Key |
| The Fullerton Bay Hotel | Singapore | Singapore | no Key | One Key |
| The Singapore EDITION | Singapore | Singapore | no Key | One Key |
| Raffles Makati | Manila | Philippines | One Key | Two Keys |
Every hotel that lost ground
| Hotel | Where | Country | 2025 | 2026 | What happened |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dusit Thani Mactan Cebu Resort | Cebu | Philippines | One Key | no Key | Key removed |
Notable results
The gains were led by Philippines (6), Malaysia (5) and Singapore (4). Four of them reached Two Keys or better: Shinta Mani Wild in Ou Bak Rothed Commune, Kokomo Private Island Fiji in Yaukuve Levu Island, El Nido Resorts Lagen Island in El Nido and Raffles Makati in Manila. Promotions are scarcer than new entries — only 86 hotels worldwide moved up a tier — and the region took Raffles Makati. The heaviest single fall was Dusit Thani Mactan Cebu Resort in Cebu, Philippines, from One Key to no Key.
The shape of the region's Key list
| Tier | Hotels 2026 |
|---|---|
| Three Keys | 1 |
| Two Keys | 12 |
| One Key | 34 |
| All Key hotels | 47 |
Three-Key hotels are 2.1 percent of the region's list, against 5.47 percent worldwide. The region holds about 1.7 percent of the world's Key hotels. One of its 6 markets hold three or fewer Key hotels each — Myanmar — so a single award or removal moves a national total noticeably.
| City or area | Key hotels 2026 |
|---|---|
| Singapore | 11 |
| Siem Reap | 7 |
| Kuala Lumpur | 4 |
| Manila | 3 |
| Phnom Penh | 3 |
| Langkawi | 2 |
Neighbouring markets
The larger markets around this region are covered separately, each with its own full list of gains and losses: Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam and Australia. Thailand is the closest comparison for most of the hotels above, and the worldwide summary sets all of them against the global totals.
How the region compares
MICHELIN's second Key selection named 2,832 hotels worldwide on 18 September 2026, against 2,457 a
year earlier. Growth was uneven by tier: One-Key hotels rose 16.0 percent and Two-Key hotels 14.9
percent, while Three-Key hotels rose only 8.4 percent, from 143 to 155.
| Worldwide | Southeast Asia & the Pacific | |
|---|---|---|
| Gained or improved a Key | 568 | 19 |
| Lost a Key or dropped a tier | 114 | 1 |
| Key hotels, 2025 | 2,457 | 30 |
| Key hotels, 2026 | 2,832 | 47 |
The additions were announced. The 114 downward moves were not, which is why they are listed in
full above. The complete worldwide breakdown, including how every loss was verified, is set out in
our analysis of the 2026 selection.
About these figures
The 2025 and 2026 selections were read hotel by hotel from the MICHELIN Guide's own country
listings, and every downward move worldwide was then re-checked against that hotel's individual
page on the Guide before being published. A hotel missing from a country listing has not
necessarily lost anything — several that plainly still hold Keys never appear in those listings —
so only a hotel the Guide still lists, now without a Key, is counted as having lost one. Hotels
whose Guide page has been removed entirely are marked "Left the Guide" rather than counted as
downgrades.
MICHELIN introduced the Key in 2024 as the hotel counterpart to its restaurant Star, awarding One,
Two or Three Keys across a selection of more than 9,000 hotels in over 100 countries on
architecture, design, service, character, consistency and value. Price is not a criterion. The
criteria are set out in the Guide's explainer; the full 2026 list is published here.
Author
2026/09/19
