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Teesside International Airport · May 2026

Teesside International Airport handled 25,674 terminal passengers in May 2026 — down 4% on May 2025, when it handled 26,665.

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.

25,674

terminal passengers

Passengers beginning or ending a journey at Teesside International Airport, May 2026

That made it the 28th-busiest of the 47 UK airports reporting to the CAA in May 2026.

Its busiest month on our record was September 2025, at 31,163. The record starts in December 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. 17 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

Dec 2019031,163 across 78 readings on recordMay 2026

One cell per month from Dec 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 202625,6740down 4% on May 2025
Apr 202621,2180down 5% on April 2025
Mar 202616,6580up 10% on March 2025
Feb 202611,3560down 4% on February 2025
Jan 202610,1140down 10% on January 2025
Dec 202514,6670up 19% on December 2024
Nov 202514,2260up 18% on November 2024
Oct 202526,43544up 25% on October 2024
Sep 202531,163104up 21% on September 2024
Aug 202530,670110up 18% on August 2024
Jul 202528,27065up 18% on July 2024
Jun 202528,05895little changed on June 2024
May 202526,665127up 27% on May 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.