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Airport passengers

East Midlands International · July 2026

East Midlands International handled 523,138 terminal passengers in July 2026 — up 3% on July 2025, when it handled 508,719.

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.

523,138

terminal passengers

Passengers beginning or ending a journey at East Midlands International, July 2026

That made it the 14th-busiest of the 46 UK airports reporting to the CAA in July 2026.

Its busiest month on our record was August 2019, at 603,530. 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. … 3 airports between
  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 20190–603,530 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 2026523,1380up 3% on July 2025
Jun 2026499,7680up 1% on June 2025
May 2026456,0300up 2% on May 2025
Apr 2026336,7570up 5% on April 2025
Mar 2026207,8970up 4% on March 2025
Feb 2026137,9930down 3% on February 2025
Jan 2026138,2070up 1% on January 2025
Dec 2025166,3610up 6% on December 2024
Nov 2025169,5680up 7% on November 2024
Oct 2025392,5440down 2% on October 2024
Sep 2025448,2040down 8% on September 2024
Aug 2025531,8590down 2% on August 2024
Jul 2025508,7190down 2% 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.