Public Figures

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Airport passengers

Inverness · July 2026

Inverness handled 93,726 terminal passengers in July 2026 — up 14% on July 2025, when it handled 82,474.

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.

93,726

terminal passengers

Passengers beginning or ending a journey at Inverness, July 2026

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

That made it the 20th-busiest of the 46 UK airports reporting to the CAA in July 2026.

Its busiest month on our record was August 2019, at 101,863. 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. … 9 airports between
    20thInverness93,726
  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 20190–101,863 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 202693,726226up 14% on July 2025
Jun 202690,563178up 10% on June 2025
May 202690,317211up 7% on May 2025
Apr 202683,520196up 6% on April 2025
Mar 202659,112125up 8% on March 2025
Feb 202649,74788up 9% on February 2025
Jan 202644,01153up 5% on January 2025
Dec 202553,869169up 7% on December 2024
Nov 202556,890209up 11% on November 2024
Oct 202578,388248up 3% on October 2024
Sep 202580,948360up 4% on September 2024
Aug 202580,643432down 4% on August 2024
Jul 202582,474434down 6% 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.