Public Figures

Britain’s official statistics

Airport passengers

Farnborough · July 2026

Farnborough handled 4,733 terminal passengers in July 2026 — up 1% on July 2025, when it handled 4,693.

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.

4,733

terminal passengers

Passengers beginning or ending a journey at Farnborough, July 2026

That made it the 35th-busiest of the 46 UK airports reporting to the CAA in July 2026.

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. … 24 airports between
    35thFarnborough4,733
  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 20240–4,733 across 31 readings on recordJul 2026

One cell per month from Jan 2024 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 20264,7330up 1% on July 2025
Jun 20264,5590up 13% on June 2025
May 20263,5880down 2% on May 2025
Apr 20262,6370up 4% on April 2025
Mar 20263,1020up 30% on March 2025
Feb 20262,3460up 4% on February 2025
Jan 20262,4010up 6% on January 2025
Dec 20252,5610down 6% on December 2024
Nov 20252,4710up 12% on November 2024
Oct 20252,8330down 23% on October 2024
Sep 20253,9580up 15% on September 2024
Aug 20254,1570up 10% on August 2024
Jul 20254,6930up 3% 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.