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Airport passengers

Lerwick (Tingwall) · May 2026

Lerwick (Tingwall) handled 476 terminal passengers in May 2026 — up 4660% on May 2025, when it handled 10.

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.

476

terminal passengers

Passengers beginning or ending a journey at Lerwick (Tingwall), May 2026

That made it the 44th-busiest of the 47 UK airports reporting to the CAA in May 2026.

Its busiest month on our record was July 2025, at 527. 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. 33 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 20194527 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 20264760up 4660% on May 2025
Apr 20263500up 9% on April 2025
Mar 20262470up 13% on March 2025
Feb 20261450down 18% on February 2025
Jan 2026800down 37% on January 2025
Dec 20251330up 9% on December 2024
Nov 20251030down 36% on November 2024
Oct 20252170down 15% on October 2024
Sep 20254440up 33% on September 2024
Aug 20253930up 44% on August 2024
Jul 20255270up 58% on July 2024
Jun 2025980down 65% on June 2024
May 2025100down 97% 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.