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- Avionio September 2026 694 airports
- Eurostat September 2026 515 airports
- Airports Corporation of Vietnam September 2026 21 airports
- Airport Authority Hong Kong September 2026 1 airports
- EUROCONTROL August 2026 319 airports
- Brazil's ANAC August 2026 129 airports
- the Airports Authority of India August 2026 115 airports
- CAAC regional offices August 2026 75 airports
- OpenSky Network August 2026 65 airports
- Mexico's AFAC August 2026 57 airports
- Argentina's ANAC August 2026 38 airports
- Japan Customs August 2026 24 airports
The world over 12 months
Where air traffic stands
Passenger totals over each airport’s latest 12 months of official monthly figures, counting the whole airport. Every row ends at its own latest month, because authorities publish on different schedules.
Fastest growing
airports above 20.0 M passengers, vs the 12 months before
Back to 2019?
last 12 months vs calendar year 2019, by region
- Caribbean19 airports+32.2%
- Eastern Europe30 airports+26.9%
- Southern Europe115 airports+21.5%
- Central America55 airports+16.2%
- Southern Asia88 airports+15.2%
- South America123 airports+11.3%
- Northern America523 airports+3.1%
- Eastern Asia20 airports+2.5%
- Northern Europe129 airports+0.2%
- Western Europe79 airports−1.5%
- Southeast Asia5 airports−2.1%
- Australasia12 airports−9.7%
Official monthly figures from national authorities and airport operators. Airports without a full-airport monthly series are not ranked.
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- United States614 airports
- EU27 + UK, NO, CH, IS476 airports
- Canada163 airports
- Japan83 airports
- Vietnam22 airports
- South Korea15 airports
- Hong Kong SAR China1 airports
- Taiwan13 airports
- China257 airports
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