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Liverpool (John Lennon) · July 2026

Liverpool (John Lennon) handled 594,672 terminal passengers in July 2026 — up 3% on July 2025, when it handled 576,548.

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.

594,672

terminal passengers

Passengers beginning or ending a journey at Liverpool (John Lennon), July 2026

That made it the 12th-busiest of the 46 UK airports reporting to the CAA in July 2026.

Its busiest month on our record was August 2025, at 615,733. 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. … 1 airport between
  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 2019862–615,733 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 2026594,6720up 3% on July 2025
Jun 2026560,6670up 1% on June 2025
May 2026541,0660down 3% on May 2025
Apr 2026501,2420up 8% on April 2025
Mar 2026434,4570up 8% on March 2025
Feb 2026346,4790up 3% on February 2025
Jan 2026293,3660down 3% on January 2025
Dec 2025386,9510up 12% on December 2024
Nov 2025347,0520up 5% on November 2024
Oct 2025526,0250up 13% on October 2024
Sep 2025538,1260up 9% on September 2024
Aug 2025615,7330up 12% on August 2024
Jul 2025576,5480up 9% 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.