Top 100 busiest airports

UPDATED 2024-12-31

This is a list of the 100 busiest airports in the world measured by scheduled departures daily (and not number of passengers. Note that we have only accounted for scheduled passenger flights and not freighters or chartered flights. The numbers are the daily avarage from next week.

1
Chicago (ORD) 741 flights every day
2
Guangzhou (CAN) 706 flights every day
3
Atlanta (ATL) 701 flights every day
4
Dallas (DFW) 695 flights every day
5
Shanghai (PVG) 689 flights every day
6
Denver (DEN) 673 flights every day
7
Charlotte (CLT) 633 flights every day
8
Delhi (DEL) 630 flights every day
9
Tokyo (HND) 629 flights every day
10
Dubai (DXB) 570 flights every day
11
Beijing (PEK) 567 flights every day
12
Jakarta (CGK) 558 flights every day
13
Istanbul (IST) 556 flights every day
14
Shenzhen (SZX) 552 flights every day
15
Chengdu (TFU) 532 flights every day
16
Seoul (ICN) 515 flights every day
17
London (LHR) 510 flights every day
18
Los Angeles (LAX) 508 flights every day
19
Kuala Lumpur (KUL) 507 flights every day
20
Bangkok (BKK) 494 flights every day
21
Kunming (KMG) 490 flights every day
22
Singapore (SIN) 490 flights every day
23
Amsterdam (AMS) 487 flights every day
24
Xi'an (XIY) 470 flights every day
25
Peking (PKX) 469 flights every day
26
Houston (IAH) 463 flights every day
27
Chongqing (CKG) 449 flights every day
28
Bombay (BOM) 449 flights every day
29
Miami (MIA) 444 flights every day
30
Madrid (MAD) 435 flights every day
31
Phoenix (PHX) 428 flights every day
32
Paris (CDG) 424 flights every day
33
Newark (EWR) 422 flights every day
34
Hong Kong (HKG) 420 flights every day
35
New York (JFK) 419 flights every day
36
Hangzhou (HGH) 412 flights every day
37
Bogota (BOG) 408 flights every day
38
New York (LGA) 406 flights every day
39
Manila (MNL) 403 flights every day
40
Toronto (YYZ) 395 flights every day
41
Orlando (MCO) 383 flights every day
42
Las Vegas (LAS) 381 flights every day
43
Shanghai (SHA) 375 flights every day
44
Sydney (SYD) 364 flights every day
45
Frankfurt (FRA) 364 flights every day
46
Bangalore (BLR) 363 flights every day
47
Boston (BOS) 360 flights every day
48
Seattle (SEA) 359 flights every day
49
Washington (DCA) 354 flights every day
50
Jeddah (JED) 348 flights every day
51
Ho Chi Minh City (SGN) 332 flights every day
52
San Francisco (SFO) 331 flights every day
53
Wuhan (WUH) 327 flights every day
54
Doha (DOH) 311 flights every day
55
Taipei (TPE) 308 flights every day
56
Bangkok (DMK) 307 flights every day
57
Melbourne (MEL) 304 flights every day
58
Haikou (HAK) 304 flights every day
59
Rome (FCO) 303 flights every day
60
Nanjing (NKG) 301 flights every day
61
Riyadh (RUH) 299 flights every day
62
Changsha (CSX) 298 flights every day
63
Mexico City (MEX) 295 flights every day
64
Barcelona (BCN) 293 flights every day
65
Detroit (DTW) 291 flights every day
66
Minneapolis (MSP) 290 flights every day
67
Zhengzhou (CGO) 287 flights every day
68
Tokyo (NRT) 286 flights every day
69
Sao Paulo (GRU) 284 flights every day
70
Hyderabad (HYD) 281 flights every day
71
Munich (MUC) 281 flights every day
72
Fort Lauderdale (FLL) 280 flights every day
73
Chengdu (CTU) 269 flights every day
74
Xiamen (XMN) 266 flights every day
75
Qingdao (TAO) 265 flights every day
76
Harbin (HRB) 260 flights every day
77
Vancouver (YVR) 257 flights every day
78
Moscow (SVO) 254 flights every day
79
Urumqi (URC) 253 flights every day
80
Osaka (KIX) 251 flights every day
81
Istanbul (SAW) 250 flights every day
82
Fukuoka (FUK) 248 flights every day
83
Washington (IAD) 244 flights every day
84
Cairo (CAI) 237 flights every day
85
Salt Lake City (SLC) 235 flights every day
86
Philadelphia (PHL) 235 flights every day
87
Cancun (CUN) 231 flights every day
88
Sao Paulo (CGH) 229 flights every day
89
Dublin (DUB) 229 flights every day
90
Hanoi (HAN) 228 flights every day
91
Shenyang (SHE) 228 flights every day
92
Johannesburg (JNB) 228 flights every day
93
Brisbane (BNE) 225 flights every day
94
Guiyang (KWE) 223 flights every day
95
Cheju (CJU) 218 flights every day
96
Madras (MAA) 217 flights every day
97
Lima (LIM) 216 flights every day
98
Abu Dhabi (AUH) 214 flights every day
99
Chitose (CTS) 213 flights every day
100
Athens (ATH) 213 flights every day