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✈️ Busiest Airports in the United Kingdom

UK airports ranked by total passengers in 2025.

📅 2025📏 million passengers40 entries🇬🇧 See all of this country’s rankings →
Each tile’s area is its share of the combined total of 302.1M (40 entries). Stronger colour means a higher rank.
1
London Heathrow
84.5M
2
London Gatwick
42.8M
3
Manchester
32.1M
4
London Stansted
29.8M
5
London Luton
17.8M
6
Edinburgh
17.0M
7
Birmingham
13.7M
8
Bristol
10.8M
9
Glasgow
8.2M
10
Belfast International
6.7M
11
Liverpool
5.6M
12
Newcastle
5.5M
13
Leeds Bradford
4.4M
14
East Midlands
4.0M
15
London City
3.7M
16
Belfast City
2.4M
17
Aberdeen
2.3M
18
Jersey
1.5M
19
Bournemouth
1.4M
20
Cardiff
1.0M
21
Southampton
0.9M
22
Inverness
0.8M
23
London Southend
0.7M
24
Guernsey
0.7M
25
Glasgow Prestwick
0.6M
26
Isle of Man
0.6M
27
Exeter
0.6M
28
Norwich
0.4M
29
Newquay
0.4M
30
Sumburgh
0.3M
31
Teesside
0.3M
32
City of Derry
0.2M
33
Humberside
0.2M
34
Kirkwall
0.2M
35
Stornoway
0.1M
36
St Mary's
0.1M
37
Land's End
0.1M
38
Alderney
0.0M
39
Farnborough
0.0M
40
Dundee
0.0M

Highlights

Within United Kingdom, London Heathrow ranks first in 2025 with 84.5M, followed by London Gatwick (42.8M) and Manchester (32.1M).

London Heathrow is 2 times higher than London Gatwick, the runner-up.

Across 40 entries, values run from 84.5M (London Heathrow) to 0.0M (Dundee), with a median of 0.9M.

Source: UK Civil Aviation Authority, airport statistics (2025) (via Wikipedia), 2025. Unit: million passengers.

Source: UK Civil Aviation Authority, airport statistics (2025) (via Wikipedia) · CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikipedia); underlying data © the cited publisher · fetched Oct 13, 2026