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Airport passengers

Guernsey · May 2026

Guernsey handled 66,757 terminal passengers in May 2026 — up 1% on May 2025, when it handled 66,072.

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.

66,757

terminal passengers

Passengers beginning or ending a journey at Guernsey, May 2026

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

Guernsey reports to the CAA but is not in the United Kingdom, so it is not ranked against UK airports.

Its busiest month on our record was August 2019, at 90,892. 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. 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 201961390,892 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 202666,757128up 1% on May 2025
Apr 202657,2547down 1% on April 2025
Mar 202652,5730little changed on March 2025
Feb 202642,8110down 2% on February 2025
Jan 202640,56527up 2% on January 2025
Dec 202550,12027up 2% on December 2024
Nov 202551,6530up 7% on November 2024
Oct 202560,385150up 5% on October 2024
Sep 202565,852312little changed on September 2024
Aug 202570,880516down 2% on August 2024
Jul 202567,584475down 2% on July 2024
Jun 202563,492372down 2% on June 2024
May 202566,072394up 3% 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.