World’s Best Regional Airports 2026

Chubu Centrair International Airport in Nagoya, Japan is named the World's Best Regional Airport for the twelfth consecutive year, ahead of Fukuoka Airport and Haikou Meilan International Airport

For the awards process, a regional airport is one that predominantly serves domestic or regional international flights. It may also serve a small number of intercontinental routes, but the primary focus is on the short haul and regional market.

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World’s Best Regional Airports 2026

1

Centrair Nagoya

2

Fukuoka

3

Haikou Meilan

4

Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky

5

Paris Orly

6

New Chitose

7

New York LGA

8

Houston Hobby

9

Bangalore

10

Dusseldorf

Best Regional Airports in Asia 2026

1

Centrair Nagoya

2

Fukuoka

3

Haikou Meilan

4

New Chitose

5

Bangalore

6

Hyderabad

7

Seoul Gimpo

8

Okinawa

9

Goa Manohar

10

Da Nang

Best Regional Airports in North America 2026

1

Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky

2

New York LGA

3

Houston Hobby

4

Denver

5

Ottawa

6

Phoenix Sky Harbor

7

Minneapolis St.Paul

8

San Diego

9

San Antonio

10

Billy Bishop Toronto City

Best Regional Airports in Europe 2026

1

Paris Orly

2

Dusseldorf

3

Hamburg

4

Budapest

5

Porto

6

London City

7

Málaga

8

Malta

9

Lyon

10

Cologne / Bonn

Best Regional Airports in the Middle East 2026

1

Medina

2

Dammam

3

Salalah

4

Amman

5

Dubai World Central

Best Regional Airports in China 2026

1

Haikou Meilan

2

Changsha

3

Sanya Phoenix

4

Xi'an

5

Hangzhou

6

Xiamen

7

Kunming

8

Tianjin Binhai

9

Qingdao

10

Zhengzhou

Best Regional Airports in Australia/Pacific 2026

1

Adelaide

2

Gold Coast

3

Christchurch

4

Wellington

5

Darwin

6

Cairns

7

Canberra

8

Hobart

9

Papeete

10

Alice Springs

Best Regional Airports in Africa 2026

1

Marrakech

2

Durban King Shaka

3

Kigali

4

Port Elizabeth

5

Bloemfontein

6

East London

7

Entebbe

8

Antananarivo

9

Rabat

10

Luanda

Best Regional Airports in Central Asia / CIS 2026

1

Nur-Sultan

2

Almaty

3

Yerevan

4

Chisinau

5

Atyrau

6

Tashkent

7

Bishkek

8

Samarkand

9

Ashgabat

10

Nakhchivan

Best Regional Airports in India & South Asia 2026

1

Bangalore

2

Hyderabad

3

Goa Manohar

4

Chennai

5

Cochin

6

Goa Dabolim

7

Chittagong

8

Amritsar

9

Kozhikode

10

Nagpur

Best Regional Airports in C America/Caribbean 2026

1

Juan Santamaría

2

Curaçao

3

El Salvador

4

Guatemala La Aurora

5

San Juan

6

Santo Domingo

7

Nassau Lynden Pindling

8

Managua

9

Martinique

10

Antigua

Best Regional Airports in South America 2026

1

Quito

2

Guayaquil

3

Medellin

4

Buenos Aires Airpark

5

Recife

6

Brasília

7

Cartagena

8

La Paz / El Alto

9

Belo Horizonte

10

Cordoba

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World’s Best Regional Airports 2026

Chubu Centrair International Airport in Nagoya, Japan is named the World's Best Regional Airport for the twelfth consecutive year, ahead of Fukuoka Airport and Haikou Meilan International Airport

World’s Best Regional Airports 2026

1

Centrair Nagoya

2

Fukuoka

3

Haikou Meilan

4

Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky

5

Paris Orly

6

New Chitose

7

New York LGA

8

Houston Hobby

9

Bangalore

10

Dusseldorf

Best Regional Airports in Asia 2026

1

Centrair Nagoya

2

Fukuoka

3

Haikou Meilan

4

New Chitose

5

Bangalore

6

Hyderabad

7

Seoul Gimpo

8

Okinawa

9

Goa Manohar

10

Da Nang

Best Regional Airports in North America 2026

1

Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky

2

New York LGA

3

Houston Hobby

4

Denver

5

Ottawa

6

Phoenix Sky Harbor

7

Minneapolis St.Paul

8

San Diego

9

San Antonio

10

Billy Bishop Toronto City

Best Regional Airports in Europe 2026

1

Paris Orly