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23 ranked
hotels in Macau
4 MICHELIN Keys · 23 Forbes Five Star · 0 World's 50 Best placings
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Cotai suite towers and Portuguese stonework on one peninsula
Macau has 23 hotels ranked in the finehotels.world index. Banyan Tree Macau leads on prestige score at 5.59 out of 10, followed by Four Seasons Hotel Macau and The Ritz-Carlton Macau. Of those, 4 hold MICHELIN Keys, 23 hold a Forbes Five Star rating, 3 are rated by La Liste.
Few places compress this much recognised hotel inventory into so little land. Of the 23 ranked properties here, all 23 hold Forbes Five Star, an unusually high share that reflects how the territory's integrated resorts are built and staffed: butler floors, suite-only towers such as Skylofts and Emerald Tower at MGM COTAI, and the Wynn Palace complex on the reclaimed Cotai strip.
The older half of Macau is a different city entirely, with pastel Iberian facades, baroque church fronts and the Ruins of St Paul's rising above lanes that were Portuguese administrative territory until 1999. Three restaurants attached to these hotels appear on La Liste, and four properties hold MICHELIN Keys, among them Banyan Tree Macau and Four Seasons Hotel Macau.
| Hotel | Prestige | Distinctions | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Banyan Tree Macau1 Key · Forbes · 246 rooms | 5.59 | 1 MICHELIN Key; Forbes Five Star |
| 2 | Four Seasons Hotel Macau1 Key · Forbes · 360 rooms | 5.59 | 1 MICHELIN Key; Forbes Five Star |
| 3 | The Ritz-Carlton Macau1 Key · Forbes · 242 rooms | 5.59 | 1 MICHELIN Key; Forbes Five Star |
| 4 | The St. Regis Macao1 Key · Forbes · 400 rooms | 5.59 | 1 MICHELIN Key; Forbes Five Star |
| 5 | Emerald Tower at MGM COTAIForbes · La Liste | 5.20 | Forbes Five Star; La Liste 98.0 |
| 6 | Skylofts at MGM COTAIForbes · La Liste | 5.20 | Forbes Five Star; La Liste 98.0 |
| 7 | Wynn PalaceForbes · La Liste | 5.20 | Forbes Five Star; La Liste 98.0 |
| 8 | Altira MacauForbes | 5.07 | Forbes Five Star |
| 9 | Capella at Galaxy MacauForbes | 5.07 | Forbes Five Star |
| 10 | Encore MacauForbes | 5.07 | Forbes Five Star |
| 11 | Epic Tower at Studio City MacauForbes | 5.07 | Forbes Five Star |
| 12 | Galaxy Hotel MacauForbes | 5.07 | Forbes Five Star |
| 13 | Grand Lisboa HotelForbes | 5.07 | Forbes Five Star |
| 14 | Hotel Okura MacauForbes | 5.07 | Forbes Five Star |
| 15 | Londoner CourtForbes | 5.07 | Forbes Five Star |
| 16 | MGM MACAUForbes | 5.07 | Forbes Five Star |
| 17 | Nüwa MacauForbes | 5.07 | Forbes Five Star |
| 18 | Paiza GrandForbes | 5.07 | Forbes Five Star |
| 19 | Paiza LoftsForbes | 5.07 | Forbes Five Star |
| 20 | Raffles at Galaxy MacauForbes | 5.07 | Forbes Five Star |
| 21 | Star Tower at Studio City MacauForbes | 5.07 | Forbes Five Star |
| 22 | The Grand Suites at Four SeasonsForbes | 5.07 | Forbes Five Star |
| 23 | Wynn MacauForbes | 5.07 | Forbes Five Star |
Prestige score is shown out of 10. Sources: MICHELIN Guide hotel selection, Forbes Travel Guide 2026 Star Awards, The World’s 50 Best Hotels 2023 to 2025, La Liste Top 1000 Hotels.
Almost all the ranked rooms sit on Cotai, the reclaimed land between Taipa and Coloane where Four Seasons, The St. Regis Macao, Banyan Tree and the MGM and Wynn towers stand within walking distance of each other; the Macau Peninsula and Taipa Village hold the historic streets, and Altira looks back across the water toward them.
Autumn from October to December is the driest stretch and also the busiest, with the November Grand Prix and Chinese New Year filling the hotels; the humid, typhoon-prone months from June to September are the quietest.
By prestige score, the three highest ranked hotels in Macau are Banyan Tree Macau, Four Seasons Hotel Macau, The Ritz-Carlton Macau. The score is a composite of MICHELIN Keys, Forbes Travel Guide Five Star ratings, placements in The World's 50 Best Hotels for 2023, 2024 and 2025, and La Liste's hotel ratings. finehotels.world tracks 23 award holding hotels in Macau in total.
Macau has 4 hotels holding MICHELIN Keys in this index.
Each hotel is scored on a fixed formula built only from award facts, then shown on a scale of 5.00 to 10.00. MICHELIN Keys carry the most weight, a Forbes Travel Guide Five Star rating adds a flat six points, placements in The World's 50 Best Hotels for 2023, 2024 and 2025 are weighted equally, and a La Liste rating moves the total slightly. Nothing a hotel supplies about itself enters the score, and the full formula is published on the methodology page so any figure in the table can be reproduced from the awards beside it.
Autumn from October to December is the driest stretch and also the busiest, with the November Grand Prix and Chinese New Year filling the hotels; the humid, typhoon-prone months from June to September are the quietest.
Almost all the ranked rooms sit on Cotai, the reclaimed land between Taipa and Coloane where Four Seasons, The St. Regis Macao, Banyan Tree and the MGM and Wynn towers stand within walking distance of each other; the Macau Peninsula and Taipa Village hold the historic streets, and Altira looks back across the water toward them.