Top 100 busiest airports in Asia

UPDATED 2026-11-11

This is a list of the 100 busiest airports in Asia 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.

  • South Korea has the busiest route in the world
  • Beijing (PEK) will be accompanied by Beijing Daxing Airport in 2019. Daxing is planned to be the worlds largest.
  • A new airport is being built outside Istanbul. Also planned to be the worlds largest.
1
Guangzhou (CAN) 671 flights every day
2
Delhi (DEL) 656 flights every day
3
Tokyo (HND) 646 flights every day
4
Shanghai (PVG) 625 flights every day
5
Jakarta (CGK) 513 flights every day
6
Seoul (ICN) 497 flights every day
7
Bangkok (BKK) 489 flights every day
8
Beijing (PEK) 489 flights every day
9
Kuala Lumpur (KUL) 483 flights every day
10
Dubai (DXB) 473 flights every day
11
Singapore (SIN) 461 flights every day
12
Chengdu (TFU) 451 flights every day
13
Peking (PKX) 417 flights every day
14
Bombay (BOM) 408 flights every day
15
Chongqing (CKG) 406 flights every day
16
Kunming (KMG) 394 flights every day
17
Hong Kong (HKG) 379 flights every day
18
Xi'an (XIY) 367 flights every day
19
Bangalore (BLR) 363 flights every day
20
Hangzhou (HGH) 361 flights every day
21
Manila (MNL) 346 flights every day
22
Shanghai (SHA) 344 flights every day
23
Jeddah (JED) 329 flights every day
24
Istanbul (SAW) 312 flights every day
25
Taipei (TPE) 312 flights every day
26
Shenzhen (SZX) 287 flights every day
27
Doha (DOH) 285 flights every day
28
Tokyo (NRT) 284 flights every day
29
Ho Chi Minh City (SGN) 284 flights every day
30
Fukuoka (FUK) 251 flights every day
31
Bangkok (DMK) 250 flights every day
32
Hyderabad (HYD) 249 flights every day
33
Wuhan (WUH) 245 flights every day
34
Zhuhai (ZUH) 241 flights every day
35
Chengdu (CTU) 240 flights every day
36
Nanjing (NKG) 240 flights every day
37
Hanoi (HAN) 239 flights every day
38
Cheju (CJU) 230 flights every day
39
Xiamen (XMN) 229 flights every day
40
Abu Dhabi (AUH) 223 flights every day
41
Zhengzhou (CGO) 221 flights every day
42
Changsha (CSX) 220 flights every day
43
Urumqi (URC) 217 flights every day
44
Osaka (KIX) 216 flights every day
45
Haikou (HAK) 212 flights every day
46
Qingdao (TAO) 207 flights every day
47
Chitose (CTS) 207 flights every day
48
Riyadh (RUH) 202 flights every day
49
Denpasar (DPS) 194 flights every day
50
Guiyang (KWE) 191 flights every day
51
Okinawa (OKA) 189 flights every day
52
Shenyang (SHE) 185 flights every day
53
Madras (MAA) 184 flights every day
54
Osaka (ITM) 181 flights every day
55
Kathmandu (KTM) 181 flights every day
56
Calcutta (CCU) 179 flights every day
57
Seoul (GMP) 175 flights every day
58
Sanya (SYX) 171 flights every day
59
Jinan (TNA) 167 flights every day
60
Harbin (HRB) 164 flights every day
61
Kimhae (PUS) 148 flights every day
62
Phuket (HKT) 143 flights every day
63
Tianjin (TSN) 143 flights every day
64
Dalian (DLC) 136 flights every day
65
Dhaka (DAC) 136 flights every day
66
Sharjah (SHJ) 136 flights every day
67
Ningbo (NGB) 128 flights every day
68
Fuzhou (FOC) 127 flights every day
69
Surabaya (SUB) 127 flights every day
70
Taiyuan (TYN) 122 flights every day
71
Changchun (CGQ) 122 flights every day
72
(LHW) 121 flights every day
73
Ahmedabad (AMD) 120 flights every day
74
Maros Regency (UPG) 117 flights every day
75
Dammam (DMM) 113 flights every day
76
Shantou (SWA) 112 flights every day
77
Tel Aviv (TLV) 112 flights every day
78
Nanning (NNG) 112 flights every day
79
Hefei (HFE) 111 flights every day
80
Antalya (AYT) 110 flights every day
81
Nagoya (NGO) 107 flights every day
82
Da Nang (DAD) 107 flights every day
83
Shijiazhuang (SJW) 106 flights every day
84
Hohhot (HET) 104 flights every day
85
Wenzhou (WNZ) 102 flights every day
86
Chiang Mai (CNX) 102 flights every day
87
Alma-Ata (ALA) 98 flights every day
88
Nanchang (KHN) 98 flights every day
89
Wuxi (WUX) 98 flights every day
90
Cebu (CEB) 98 flights every day
91
Pune (PNQ) 97 flights every day
92
Tashkent (TAS) 93 flights every day
93
Ankara (ESB) 91 flights every day
94
Kochi (COK) 90 flights every day
95
Medina (MED) 90 flights every day
96
Muharraq (BAH) 88 flights every day
97
Muscat (MCT) 85 flights every day
98
Kuwait (KWI) 84 flights every day
99
Kagoshima (KOJ) 82 flights every day
100
Kaohsiung (KHH) 82 flights every day