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Airport passengers

Benbecula · July 2026

Benbecula handled 2,392 terminal passengers in July 2026 — down 9% on July 2025, when it handled 2,642.

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.

2,392

terminal passengers

Passengers beginning or ending a journey at Benbecula, July 2026

That made it the 38th-busiest of the 46 UK airports reporting to the CAA in July 2026.

Its busiest month on our record was June 2019, at 3,388. 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. … 27 airports between
    38thBenbecula2,392
  11. 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 201942–3,388 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 20262,3920down 9% on July 2025
Jun 20262,3411up 1% on June 2025
May 20262,3680down 15% on May 2025
Apr 20262,2080down 7% on April 2025
Mar 20261,9281down 1% on March 2025
Feb 20261,9390up 14% on February 2025
Jan 20261,4100down 9% on January 2025
Dec 20252,15717up 6% on December 2024
Nov 20251,8420down 10% on November 2024
Oct 20252,2620down 12% on October 2024
Sep 20252,2570up 4% on September 2024
Aug 20252,4050down 10% on August 2024
Jul 20252,6420down 3% 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.