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Belfast International · July 2026

Belfast International handled 693,445 terminal passengers in July 2026 — little changed on July 2025, when it handled 694,251.

Read from the Civil Aviation Authority’s monthly airport data, table 09 — terminal and transit passengers, in the vintage we archived on 30 September 2026.

693,445

terminal passengers

Passengers beginning or ending a journey at Belfast International, July 2026

That made it the 10th-busiest of the 46 UK airports reporting to the CAA in July 2026.

Its busiest month on our record was July 2024, at 709,170. The record starts in January 2019.

The busiest UK airports in July 2026

  1. 1stHeathrow7,859,325
  2. 2ndGatwick4,288,373
  3. 3rdManchester3,378,003
  4. 4thStansted3,082,100
  5. 5thEdinburgh1,879,764
  6. 6thLuton1,875,193
  7. 7thBirmingham1,486,416
  8. 8thBristol1,162,579
  9. 9thGlasgow869,386
  10. out of 46 UK airports reporting that month

Terminal passengers, as published. Alderney, Guernsey, Jersey and the Isle of Man report to the CAA but are not in the United Kingdom; they have pages here and are left out of this ranking.

Every month on record

Jan 20190–709,170 across 91 readings on recordJul 2026

One cell per month from Jan 2019 to Jul 2026, shaded from this airport’s own quietest month to its busiest. The record starts in January 2019, which is far enough back to hold a pre-2020 comparison.

The last thirteen months

MonthTerminal passengersIn transitOn the same month a year earlier
Jul 2026693,4450little changed on July 2025
Jun 2026635,1990down 1% on June 2025
May 2026632,2870up 5% on May 2025
Apr 2026568,6320up 3% on April 2025
Mar 2026532,7990up 5% on March 2025
Feb 2026459,6430down 1% on February 2025
Jan 2026388,6370down 1% on January 2025
Dec 2025483,7190down 2% on December 2024
Nov 2025457,4660little changed on November 2024
Oct 2025595,4680down 2% on October 2024
Sep 2025594,9840down 4% on September 2024
Aug 2025695,8230down 2% on August 2024
Jul 2025694,2510down 2% on July 2024

Each month is compared with the same month a year earlier, which is the comparison the CAA makes. The percentage here is ours, calculated from the two months in our own series rather than taken from the publisher’s comparison column.