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Airport passengers

Biggin Hill · July 2026

Biggin Hill handled 1,021 terminal passengers in July 2026 — down 29% on July 2025, when it handled 1,437.

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.

1,021

terminal passengers

Passengers beginning or ending a journey at Biggin Hill, July 2026

That made it the 42nd-busiest of the 46 UK airports reporting to the CAA in July 2026.

Its busiest month on our record was July 2024, at 1,754. 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. … 31 airports between
    42ndBiggin Hill1,021
  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 201930–1,754 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 20261,0210down 29% on July 2025
Jun 20265560down 47% on June 2025
May 20265770down 43% on May 2025
Apr 20264220up 7% on April 2025
Mar 20264120up 29% on March 2025
Feb 20263630down 33% on February 2025
Jan 20264780up 94% on January 2025
Dec 20254490up 30% on December 2024
Nov 20254110up 34% on November 2024
Oct 20255350up 6% on October 2024
Sep 20258680up 28% on September 2024
Aug 20251,0600down 21% on August 2024
Jul 20251,4370down 18% 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.