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Airport passengers

Lands End (St Just) · May 2026

Lands End (St Just) handled 4,274 terminal passengers in May 2026 — down 33% on May 2025, when it handled 6,360.

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.

4,274

terminal passengers

Passengers beginning or ending a journey at Lands End (St Just), May 2026

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

That made it the 34th-busiest of the 47 UK airports reporting to the CAA in May 2026.

Its busiest month on our record was August 2019, at 9,405. 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. 23 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 20191359,405 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 20264,2748down 33% on May 2025
Apr 20264,2620down 19% on April 2025
Mar 20262,3300down 23% on March 2025
Feb 20261,7020down 30% on February 2025
Jan 20261,7570down 16% on January 2025
Dec 20252,1490up 5% on December 2024
Nov 20251,9620down 7% on November 2024
Oct 20253,9430down 3% on October 2024
Sep 20255,75811up 5% on September 2024
Aug 20257,05115up 12% on August 2024
Jul 20256,0882up 14% on July 2024
Jun 20255,34439down 14% on June 2024
May 20256,36040down 2% 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.