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Airport passengers

Humberside · May 2026

Humberside handled 14,205 terminal passengers in May 2026 — down 11% on May 2025, when it handled 16,010.

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.

14,205

terminal passengers

Passengers beginning or ending a journey at Humberside, May 2026

That made it the 30th-busiest of the 47 UK airports reporting to the CAA in May 2026.

Its busiest month on our record was August 2019, at 20,430. 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. 19 airports between
    30thHumberside14,205
  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 201963920,430 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 202614,2050down 11% on May 2025
Apr 202611,3980down 8% on April 2025
Mar 202610,6790down 8% on March 2025
Feb 20269,8420down 6% on February 2025
Jan 20268,2020down 18% on January 2025
Dec 202511,1730up 2% on December 2024
Nov 202510,5790up 4% on November 2024
Oct 202514,8050up 14% on October 2024
Sep 202515,8270up 10% on September 2024
Aug 202517,2430up 10% on August 2024
Jul 202516,2050little changed on July 2024
Jun 202514,8280down 3% on June 2024
May 202516,0100up 25% 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.