Public Figures

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Airport passengers

Bournemouth · July 2026

Bournemouth handled 170,525 terminal passengers in July 2026 — down 4% on July 2025, when it handled 178,526.

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.

170,525

terminal passengers

Passengers beginning or ending a journey at Bournemouth, July 2026

That made it the 18th-busiest of the 46 UK airports reporting to the CAA in July 2026.

Its busiest month on our record was August 2025, at 194,456. 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. … 7 airports between
    18thBournemouth170,525
  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 20190–194,456 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 2026170,5250down 4% on July 2025
Jun 2026165,2250down 4% on June 2025
May 2026152,0130up 4% on May 2025
Apr 2026113,3230up 7% on April 2025
Mar 202679,3210up 16% on March 2025
Feb 202658,3090up 4% on February 2025
Jan 202654,3810up 22% on January 2025
Dec 202565,6970up 24% on December 2024
Nov 202552,7850up 16% on November 2024
Oct 2025134,9880up 37% on October 2024
Sep 2025161,5890up 21% on September 2024
Aug 2025194,4560up 32% on August 2024
Jul 2025178,5260up 32% 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.