Public Figures

Britain’s official statistics

Airport passengers

Oxford (Kidlington) · May 2026

Oxford (Kidlington) handled 225 terminal passengers in May 2026. We hold no May a year earlier to compare it with.

Read from the Civil Aviation Authority’s monthly airport data, table 09 — terminal and transit passengers, in the vintage we archived on 11 August 2026.

225

terminal passengers

Passengers beginning or ending a journey at Oxford (Kidlington), May 2026

That made it the 46th-busiest of the 47 UK airports reporting to the CAA in May 2026.

Its busiest month on our record was August 2021, at 247. The record starts in May 2019.

The busiest UK airports in May 2026

  1. 1stHeathrow7,120,998
  2. 2ndGatwick3,738,837
  3. 3rdManchester2,930,308
  4. 4thStansted2,829,477
  5. 5thLuton1,753,706
  6. 6thEdinburgh1,654,718
  7. 7thBirmingham1,306,203
  8. 8thBristol1,077,177
  9. 9thGlasgow817,491
  10. 35 airports between
  11. out of 47 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

May 20190247 across 31 readings on recordMay 2026

One cell per month from May 2019 to May 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
May 20262250
Apr 20261890
Mar 20261630
Feb 20262260
Jan 2026730
Dec 2025not published
Nov 2025not published
Oct 2025not published
Sep 202500down 100% on September 2024
Aug 2025not published
Jul 2025not published
Jun 2025not published
May 2025not published

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.