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Isles of Scilly (St.Marys) · May 2026

Isles of Scilly (St.Marys) handled 7,295 terminal passengers in May 2026 — down 23% on May 2025, when it handled 9,445.

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.

7,295

terminal passengers

Passengers beginning or ending a journey at Isles of Scilly (St.Marys), May 2026

That made it the 33rd-busiest of the 47 UK airports reporting to the CAA in May 2026.

Its busiest month on our record was August 2019, at 14,002. 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. 22 airports between
  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 201913514,002 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 20267,2950down 23% on May 2025
Apr 20266,3560down 11% on April 2025
Mar 20263,4450down 13% on March 2025
Feb 20262,7550down 7% on February 2025
Jan 20262,6300up 5% on January 2025
Dec 20252,9580up 25% on December 2024
Nov 20252,7430up 2% on November 2024
Oct 20255,2970up 1% on October 2024
Sep 20258,7670up 10% on September 2024
Aug 202510,7990up 16% on August 2024
Jul 20258,8260up 7% on July 2024
Jun 20256,8450down 26% on June 2024
May 20259,4450down 1% 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.