Public Figures

Britain’s official statistics

Airport passengers

Exeter · July 2026

Exeter handled 69,604 terminal passengers in July 2026 — down 4% on July 2025, when it handled 72,540.

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.

69,604

terminal passengers

Passengers beginning or ending a journey at Exeter, July 2026

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

That made it the 24th-busiest of the 46 UK airports reporting to the CAA in July 2026.

Its busiest month on our record was August 2019, at 119,990. 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. … 13 airports between
    24thExeter69,604
  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 20190–119,990 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 202669,604110down 4% on July 2025
Jun 202669,572436down 2% on June 2025
May 202658,831584little changed on May 2025
Apr 202645,809252up 7% on April 2025
Mar 202628,709393up 12% on March 2025
Feb 202623,31348up 26% on February 2025
Jan 202622,21384up 26% on January 2025
Dec 202527,0020up 22% on December 2024
Nov 202528,1810up 37% on November 2024
Oct 202562,6890up 45% on October 2024
Sep 202570,5000up 35% on September 2024
Aug 202577,2470up 35% on August 2024
Jul 202572,5400up 34% 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.