Global travel website Big 7 Travel has ranked Sri Lanka as the world’s most beautiful island for 2025 in its annual list of the top 50 best islands.

The list, released this week, features destinations from around the globe, celebrating trending hotspots, remote escapes and iconic favourites. Rankings were based on a combination of previous media results, insights from Big 7 Travel’s editorial team, social media popularity, and destinations gaining attention among travellers in 2025.

Sri Lanka claimed the top position, followed by Mo’orea in French Polynesia and Yemen’s Socotra. Madeira (Portugal) and the Galapagos Islands (Ecuador) rounded out the top five.

Describing Sri Lanka, the travel site wrote: “This teardrop-shaped island off the southern coast of India has it all, from golden beaches to terraced tea plantations… It’s easy to see why Marco Polo called Sri Lanka ‘the finest island of its size in all the world’.”

The top 10 islands in the 2025 ranking are: Sri Lanka, Mo’orea, Socotra, Madeira, the Galapagos, Great Exuma (Bahamas), Seychelles, Achill Island (Ireland), Koh Lipe (Thailand) and Milos (Greece).