Australia’s busiest airports
Compare monthly passenger movements at the 20 airports covered by BITRE.
Arrivals plus departures, not unique people. A connecting passenger can be counted more than once. Excludes charter and other non-scheduled operations. Coverage follows BITRE’s selected top 20 airports, not every airport in Australia.
The comparison, in colour.
Bar height shows the magnitude of passenger movements; exact values are listed below.
Every position. Every number.
| Rank | Airport | Passenger movements ↓ |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | Sydney | 3,624,360 |
| 02 | Melbourne | 3,098,842 |
| 03 | Brisbane | 2,215,968 |
| 04 | Perth | 1,285,361 |
| 05 | Adelaide | 756,973 |
| 06 | Gold Coast | 577,171 |
| 07 | Cairns | 464,660 |
| 08 | Canberra | 232,792 |
| 09 | Hobart | 225,348 |
| 10 | Darwin | 212,043 |
| 11 | Sunshine Coast | 165,528 |
| 12 | Townsville | 160,653 |
| 13 | Launceston | 115,249 |
| 14 | Newcastle | 112,396 |
| 15 | Mackay | 82,443 |
| 16 | Karratha | 68,822 |
| 17 | Rockhampton | 57,761 |
| 18 | Proserpine | 52,481 |
| 19 | Ballina | 50,615 |
| 20 | Hamilton Island | 45,375 |
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Ranked by total revenue passenger movements in the latest month of the Airport Passengers worksheet. The national total is excluded. International services use uplift/discharge; domestic services use uplift/discharge where available and traffic-on-board otherwise. Missing, partial or estimated data may occur according to source notes.
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Source publication: 2026-11-04. Snapshot first observed 2026-11-07T14:09:54+00:00. Source-check schedule: monthly; publisher cadence: Monthly, with reporting lag. Checking again does not change the observation period.