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Airport passengers

City of Derry (Eglinton) · May 2026

City of Derry (Eglinton) handled 21,955 terminal passengers in May 2026 — up 16% on May 2025, when it handled 18,987.

Read from the Civil Aviation Authority’s monthly airport data, table 09 — terminal and transit passengers, in the vintage we archived on 11 August 2026.

21,955

terminal passengers

Passengers beginning or ending a journey at City of Derry (Eglinton), May 2026

That made it the 29th-busiest of the 47 UK airports reporting to the CAA in May 2026.

The busiest UK airports in May 2026

  1. 1stHeathrow7,120,998
  2. 2ndGatwick3,738,837
  3. 3rdManchester2,930,308
  4. 4thStansted2,829,477
  5. 5thLuton1,753,706
  6. 6thEdinburgh1,654,718
  7. 7thBirmingham1,306,203
  8. 8thBristol1,077,177
  9. 9thGlasgow817,491
  10. 18 airports between
  11. out of 47 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 201916621,955 across 89 readings on recordMay 2026

One cell per month from Jan 2019 to May 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
May 202621,9550up 16% on May 2025
Apr 202621,4930up 23% on April 2025
Mar 202621,0220up 21% on March 2025
Feb 202618,4410up 7% on February 2025
Jan 202615,4980up 3% on January 2025
Dec 202519,2710down 4% on December 2024
Nov 202517,6230little changed on November 2024
Oct 202518,9590up 28% on October 2024
Sep 202518,9120up 32% on September 2024
Aug 202521,2740up 12% on August 2024
Jul 202520,9240up 9% on July 2024
Jun 202517,7410up 14% on June 2024
May 202518,9870up 23% on May 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.