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Airport passengers

Newquay · July 2026

Newquay handled 53,189 terminal passengers in July 2026 — up 4% on July 2025, when it handled 51,143.

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.

53,189

terminal passengers

Passengers beginning or ending a journey at Newquay, July 2026

That made it the 25th-busiest of the 46 UK airports reporting to the CAA in July 2026.

Its busiest month on our record was August 2019, at 59,066. 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. … 14 airports between
    25thNewquay53,189
  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 20190–59,066 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 202653,1890up 4% on July 2025
Jun 202646,5945down 2% on June 2025
May 202642,9490up 6% on May 2025
Apr 202636,1490up 6% on April 2025
Mar 202622,9910down 3% on March 2025
Feb 202616,0490down 5% on February 2025
Jan 202614,3830down 6% on January 2025
Dec 202517,9650down 7% on December 2024
Nov 202516,6160down 20% on November 2024
Oct 202533,4190up 1% on October 2024
Sep 202543,6630up 3% on September 2024
Aug 202553,6890down 4% on August 2024
Jul 202551,1430down 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.