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Airport passengers

Dundee · May 2026

Dundee handled 2,531 terminal passengers in May 2026 — up 7% on May 2025, when it handled 2,374.

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.

2,531

terminal passengers

Passengers beginning or ending a journey at Dundee, May 2026

594 more passed through in transit and are not in this figure

That made it the 37th-busiest of the 47 UK airports reporting to the CAA in May 2026.

Its busiest month on our record was July 2022, at 3,959. The record starts in January 2019.

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. 26 airports between
    37thDundee2,531
  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 201903,959 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 20262,531594up 7% on May 2025
Apr 20262,527475up 15% on April 2025
Mar 20262,52569up 33% on March 2025
Feb 20262,2110up 27% on February 2025
Jan 20261,9100up 15% on January 2025
Dec 20252,3800up 10% on December 2024
Nov 20252,5360up 7% on November 2024
Oct 20252,830524up 1% on October 2024
Sep 20252,923786up 1% on September 2024
Aug 20252,245732down 21% on August 2024
Jul 20252,740922down 8% on July 2024
Jun 20252,494802down 13% on June 2024
May 20252,374694down 12% 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.