Public Figures

Britain’s official statistics

Airport passengers

Prestwick · July 2026

Prestwick handled 81,806 terminal passengers in July 2026 — up 8% on July 2025, when it handled 75,817.

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.

81,806

terminal passengers

Passengers beginning or ending a journey at Prestwick, July 2026

That made it the 23rd-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. … 12 airports between
    23rdPrestwick81,806
  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 20190–81,806 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 202681,8060up 8% on July 2025
Jun 202677,1520up 6% on June 2025
May 202674,8080up 6% on May 2025
Apr 202665,7610down 1% on April 2025
Mar 202630,8020down 13% on March 2025
Feb 202620,55381down 19% on February 2025
Jan 202618,9420down 13% on January 2025
Dec 202523,5280down 6% on December 2024
Nov 202523,2030down 6% on November 2024
Oct 202565,2820up 11% on October 2024
Sep 202570,3670up 13% on September 2024
Aug 202570,8230up 13% on August 2024
Jul 202575,8170up 19% 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.