Public Figures

Britain’s official statistics

Airport passengers

Luton · July 2026

Luton handled 1,875,193 terminal passengers in July 2026 — up 9% on July 2025, when it handled 1,723,731.

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.

1,875,193

terminal passengers

Passengers beginning or ending a journey at Luton, July 2026

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

That made it the 6th-busiest of the 46 UK airports reporting to the CAA in July 2026.

Its busiest month on our record was August 2019, at 1,897,129. 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. 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 201914,183–1,897,129 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 20261,875,193425up 9% on July 2025
Jun 20261,789,4370up 9% on June 2025
May 20261,753,706132up 8% on May 2025
Apr 20261,562,991358up 2% on April 2025
Mar 20261,357,8890up 2% on March 2025
Feb 20261,219,0810up 3% on February 2025
Jan 20261,185,332201up 4% on January 2025
Dec 20251,358,7570up 5% on December 2024
Nov 20251,217,5730up 6% on November 2024
Oct 20251,584,3980up 6% on October 2024
Sep 20251,611,4320up 3% on September 2024
Aug 20251,829,839325up 5% on August 2024
Jul 20251,723,7310up 4% 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.