Public Figures

Britain’s official statistics

Airport passengers

London City · July 2026

London City handled 336,460 terminal passengers in July 2026 — down 4% on July 2025, when it handled 351,402.

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.

336,460

terminal passengers

Passengers beginning or ending a journey at London City, July 2026

That made it the 15th-busiest of the 46 UK airports reporting to the CAA in July 2026.

Its busiest month on our record was July 2019, at 493,486. 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. … 4 airports between
    15thLondon City336,460
  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 20190–493,486 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 2026336,4600down 4% on July 2025
Jun 2026320,7280down 9% on June 2025
May 2026298,0650down 8% on May 2025
Apr 2026298,0020down 5% on April 2025
Mar 2026302,3870down 1% on March 2025
Feb 2026253,4560little changed on February 2025
Jan 2026227,0380down 1% on January 2025
Dec 2025289,4500up 3% on December 2024
Nov 2025306,3260little changed on November 2024
Oct 2025339,5000up 1% on October 2024
Sep 2025343,5730up 6% on September 2024
Aug 2025326,0860up 5% on August 2024
Jul 2025351,4020up 7% 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.