World’s Best Airports by Passenger Numbers 2022

The ranking details on this page show the "Best Airports in the World 2022" based upon the number of passengers served for each airport.

Due to COVID-19 travel restrictions, extended country border closures etc during the 2021 Survey period, the figures used for the 2022 results are very different to normal times of 2019-2020, and we stress that these results are provided for guidance only.

Best Airports 2022: 40+ million passengers

1

Guangzhou

2

Denver

3

Atlanta

4

Dallas/Fort Worth

5

Chengdu Shuangliu

Best Airports 2022: 30-40 million passengers

1

Istanbul

2

Seattle-Tacoma

3

Houston George Bush

4

Delhi

5

Shanghai Hongqiao

6

Shenzhen

7

Xi'an

8

New York JFK

9

Beijing Capital

10

Phoenix

Best Airports 2022: 20-30 million passengers

1

Tokyo Haneda

2

Paris CDG

3

Dubai

4

Amsterdam Schiphol

5

Madrid Barajas

6

Frankfurt

7

Bogota

8

San Francisco

9

Mumbai

10

Beijing Daxing

Best Airports 2022: 15-20 million passengers

1

Doha Hamad

2

London Heathrow

3

Barcelona

4

Haikou Meilan

5

Paris Orly

6

Bangalore

7

Seoul Gimpo

8

Changsha

9

Sanya Phoenix

10

Washington Dulles

Best Airports 2022: 10-15 million passengers

1

Munich

2

Zurich

3

Vienna

4

Rome Fiumicino

5

Riyadh

6

Houston Hobby

7

Toronto Pearson

8

Jeddah

9

Athens

10

Hyderabad

Best Airports 2022: 5-10 million passengers

1

Tokyo Narita

2

Copenhagen

3

Brisbane

4

Dusseldorf

5

Melbourne

6

Vancouver

7

Hamburg

8

Fukuoka

9

Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky

10

Auckland

Best Airports 2022: 2-5 million passengers

1

Singapore Changi

2

Seoul Incheon

3

Kansai

4

Helsinki-Vantaa

5

Centrair Nagoya

6

Bahrain

7

Muscat

8

Baku

9

Cologne / Bonn

10

Perth

Best Airports 2022: less than 2 million passengers

1

Hong Kong

2

Quito

3

Medina

4

London City

5

Taiwan Taoyuan

6

Salalah

7

Mauritius

8

Tallinn

9

Birmingham

10

Guayaquil

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World’s Best Airports by Passenger Numbers 2022

The ranking details on this page show the "Best Airports in the World 2022" based upon the number of passengers served for each airport.

Best Airports 2022: 40+ million passengers

1

Guangzhou

2

Denver

3

Atlanta

4

Dallas/Fort Worth

5

Chengdu Shuangliu

Best Airports 2022: 30-40 million passengers

1

Istanbul

2

Seattle-Tacoma

3

Houston George Bush

4

Delhi

5

Shanghai Hongqiao

6

Shenzhen

7

Xi'an

8

New York JFK

9

Beijing Capital

10

Phoenix

Best Airports 2022: 20-30 million passengers

1

Tokyo Haneda

2

Paris CDG

3

Dubai

4

Amsterdam Schiphol

5

Madrid Barajas

6

Frankfurt

7

Bogota

8

San Francisco

9

Mumbai

10

Beijing Daxing

Best Airports 2022: 15-20 million passengers

1

Doha Hamad

2

London Heathrow

3

Barcelona

4

Haikou Meilan

5

Paris Orly

6

Bangalore