Public Figures

Britain’s official statistics

Airport passengers

Newcastle · July 2026

Newcastle handled 632,357 terminal passengers in July 2026 — up 5% on July 2025, when it handled 599,787.

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.

632,357

terminal passengers

Passengers beginning or ending a journey at Newcastle, July 2026

That made it the 11th-busiest of the 46 UK airports reporting to the CAA in July 2026.

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. 11thNewcastle632,357
  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 201967–632,357 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 2026632,3570up 5% on July 2025
Jun 2026599,7920up 5% on June 2025
May 2026580,5860up 8% on May 2025
Apr 2026469,7770up 11% on April 2025
Mar 2026386,5090up 9% on March 2025
Feb 2026327,7930up 10% on February 2025
Jan 2026304,7240up 9% on January 2025
Dec 2025347,6860up 9% on December 2024
Nov 2025353,2870up 10% on November 2024
Oct 2025523,1920up 7% on October 2024
Sep 2025567,7620up 5% on September 2024
Aug 2025622,1340up 5% on August 2024
Jul 2025599,7870up 5% 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.