North America’s 100 Best Hotels 2025

A canon of place, craft, and service — defining the region’s pinnacle of experience-first luxury from island sanctuaries to metropolitan icons.

Executive Summary

North America’s 100 Best Hotels 2025 records a decisive year for the region’s hospitality. The table reveals a Mexico-led surge at the summit, a Hawaii-centric U.S. showing, and a brand landscape led by Auberge Resorts Collection, Four Seasons, Fairmont, Ritz-Carlton, and Rosewood. Together, the honorees define a canon where design intent, service choreography, culinary leadership, and nature-led wellbeing are the primary currencies of excellence.

Data at a Glance

Introduction

The World’s 100 Best Group is honored to present North America’s 100 Best Hotels 2025, the official canon of hospitality excellence across the United States, Mexico, Canada, and the Caribbean. This edition elevates properties that reconcile design intent with service artistry, and landscape immersion with culinary leadership — defining a contemporary benchmark for the region.

Regional Picture

Mexico: Momentum at the Summit

Mexico demonstrates the year’s most decisive top-tier momentum. Los Cabos and the Riviera Maya anchor a majority of the country’s placements, with top-ten showings that blend design-forward resorts, destination dining, and wellbeing as a core promise.

United States: Island Gravity and Stateside Icons

The United States leads by volume, with a striking Hawaii concentration underscoring nature-led luxury and privacy-driven stays. California, New York, and the Mountain West extend the narrative across urban ritual, wine-country heritage, and outdoor immersion.

Canada: Urban Refinement Meets Wilderness Edge

Canada balances metropolitan polish with wilderness-edge icons, emphasizing craft, culinary caliber, and stewardship-minded relationships with landscape.

The Caribbean: An Archipelago of Distinct Voices

Nineteen honorees across thirteen islands and territories highlight specificity of place — coastlines and cultures rendered with restraint, authenticity, and a contemporary eye for wellbeing.

What Defines Excellence in 2025

• Architecture with a Point of View — Buildings as narrative, not ornament.
• Service as Choreography — Precision pre-arrival, anticipatory rituals, grace on departure.
• Culinary Programs as Destinations — Chef-led restaurants and bars with local followings.
• Wellbeing as a Core Promise — Spa, movement, hydro-therapy, outdoor immersion.
• Sustainability that is Felt — Short supply chains, stewardship, light-touch builds.

Brand Landscape: Identity Over Inventory

Experience-first banners command the year: Auberge Resorts Collection (11) synthesizes design intent, culinary centrality, and landscape immersion; Four Seasons (9) anchors metropolitan polish and resort consistency; Fairmont (7) modernizes grand-hotel gravitas; Ritz-Carlton (6) and Rosewood (6) deliver couture-grade service and design.

Conclusion

North America’s 100 Best Hotels 2025 is the definitive authority on the region’s hospitality landscape — a syllabus for the industry and a reliable compass for discerning travelers.

Above all, it records how North American luxury in 2025 feels at its highest level: considered, quietly confident, and unforgettable.