Airport passengers
Wick John O' Groats · May 2026
Wick John O' Groats handled 233 terminal passengers in May 2026 — down 60% on May 2025, when it handled 583.
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.
233
terminal passengers
Passengers beginning or ending a journey at Wick John O' Groats, May 2026
That made it the 45th-busiest of the 47 UK airports reporting to the CAA in May 2026.
Its busiest month on our record was May 2019, at 1,312. The record starts in January 2019.
The busiest UK airports in May 2026
- … 34 airports between
- 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
One cell per month from Jan 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
| Month | Terminal passengers | In transit | On the same month a year earlier |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 2026 | 233 | 0 | down 60% on May 2025 |
| Apr 2026 | 272 | 0 | down 58% on April 2025 |
| Mar 2026 | 266 | 0 | down 59% on March 2025 |
| Feb 2026 | 201 | 0 | down 63% on February 2025 |
| Jan 2026 | 128 | 0 | down 78% on January 2025 |
| Dec 2025 | 0 | 0 | down 100% on December 2024 |
| Nov 2025 | 181 | 0 | down 72% on November 2024 |
| Oct 2025 | 499 | 0 | down 39% on October 2024 |
| Sep 2025 | 567 | 0 | down 33% on September 2024 |
| Aug 2025 | 560 | 0 | down 50% on August 2024 |
| Jul 2025 | 1,297 | 0 | up 34% on July 2024 |
| Jun 2025 | 561 | 0 | down 30% on June 2024 |
| May 2025 | 583 | 0 | down 31% 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.