Public Figures

Britain’s official statistics

Airport passengers

Isle of Man · May 2026

Isle of Man handled 62,707 terminal passengers in May 2026 — up 10% on May 2025, when it handled 57,201.

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.

62,707

terminal passengers

Passengers beginning or ending a journey at Isle of Man, May 2026

Isle of Man 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 June 2019, at 84,191. 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 201924184,191 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 202662,7070up 10% on May 2025
Apr 202648,0475up 2% on April 2025
Mar 202652,32610up 3% on March 2025
Feb 202645,2240down 2% on February 2025
Jan 202639,8490up 1% on January 2025
Dec 202552,8140up 4% on December 2024
Nov 202550,8140up 6% on November 2024
Oct 202550,6570down 6% on October 2024
Sep 202550,8620down 11% on September 2024
Aug 202555,5850down 7% on August 2024
Jul 202551,9420down 8% on July 2024
Jun 202563,6040down 7% on June 2024
May 202557,2010down 6% 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.