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World's Busiest Airports

Can you name the cities (urban areas) that are served by the world's 50 busiest airports?
Based on # passengers, 2025. Source.
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First submittedAugust 20, 2012
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Urban area
106 m
Atlanta
95.2 m
Dubai
91.4 m
Tokyo (Haneda)
85.7 m
Dallas
85.0 m
Shanghai (Pudong)
84.9 m
Chicago
84.5 m
London (Heathrow)
84.5 m
Istanbul
83.6 m
Guangzhou
82.4 m
Denver
78.0 m
Delhi
74.1 m
Seoul
73.7 m
Los Angeles
72.0 m
Paris
70.7 m
Beijing (Capital)
70.0 m
Singapore
68.8 m
Amsterdam
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Urban area
68.2 m
Madrid
66.5 m
Guangzhou (Shenzhen)
63.3 m
Kuala Lumpur
63.2 m
Frankfurt
62.9 m
Bangkok
62.6 m
New York (JFK)
61.0 m
Hong Kong
57.7 m
Orlando
57.5 m
Barcelona
56.7 m
Chengdu
55.5 m
Mumbai
55.3 m
Miami
55.0 m
Las Vegas
55.0 m
Jakarta
54.5 m
San Francisco
54.3 m
Doha
53.6 m
Charlotte
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Urban area
53.6 m
Beijing (Daxing)
53.4 m
Jeddah
52.7 m
Seattle
52.0 m
Manila
51.6 m
Phoenix
50.9 m
Rome
50.5 m
Hangzhou
50.2 m
Shanghai (Hongqiao)
50.1 m
Chongqing
49.7 m
Kunming
48.5 m
Xi'an
48.4 m
Istanbul (Sabiha Gökçen)
48.1 m
Houston
47.8 m
Taipei
47.3 m
Toronto
47.2 m
São Paulo
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111 Recent Comments
Cleverer
+10
Level 62
Mar 8, 2015
Can someone tell me why Atlanta is so busy? Like what's so important about Georgia?
relessness
+34
Level 46
Mar 8, 2015
Atlanta is the main hub airport for Delta, which is the second largest airline in the world (haven been overtaken recently by American Airlines when it merged with US Airways). It is situated between the the North East, Texas and Florida which together account for about a third of the United States' population. As a result, Delta often uses Atlanta for lay overs for many of its domestic and international passengers. It's also why airports such as Charlotte and Denver have such busy airports compared to their city sizes - they're used as hubs.
ander217
+21
Level 73
Nov 13, 2015
Sometimes it almost seems as though one cannot fly anywhere in the US without a layover in Atlanta.
Quizmaster
+41
Level ∞
Nov 13, 2015
Unless your final destination is Atlanta. Then you'll have to connect in Phoenix.
DeusCaritasEst
+1
Level 54
Nov 15, 2015
^ Haha! Ain't it the truth.
fitheach
+1
Level 58
Dec 8, 2017
I was going to ask the same thing. From a British perspective, we generally catch flights to the US via NY, LAX, Vegas Baby, or Miami (those being the main tourist destinations). I don't think I've ever heard anyone I know fly to or via Atlanta, so it was a bit of a surprise to me how high up Atlanta was. You live and learn :-)
Tigerstar144
+8
Level 51
Dec 8, 2017
I once had to go from Boston to Pittsburgh but the plane went from Boston to Atlanta, then back to Pittsburgh. Seems a bit unnecessary.
Jacktheguy
+2
Level 93
Oct 30, 2019
Yeah I live in Virginia and I once took a trip to Naples, Florida. But I had to go to Boston first, then Florida. Airlines are weird.
Trombone
+1
Level 61
May 15, 2021
don't fly into the Naples Airport, or Tampa for that matter. Miami / Orlando is cheaper and easier to get to.
Jacktheguy
+1
Level 93
Aug 5, 2024
I always used the one in Fort Myers.
kalbahamut
+4
Level 79
Nov 29, 2016
^mostly the hub thing. Also Atlanta is one of the most-visited cities in the United States. There are many business conferences and exhibitions there. And, though it is only the 13th largest city in America, it's still at the center of an urban area of 5.5 million people, and Americans fly a lot.
Maladroit
+5
Level 50
Dec 8, 2017
Lots of things make Atlanta a good place for an airport. It's between eastern Canada and the Caribbean, so layovers happen there often. It's also well-placed for flights from New York and Pennsylvania. It's very large because Atlanta city space isn't at a premium (just look at Macy's), which means more planes can land and take off from there. Atlanta has large suburbs and most of the people who live in them commute to the city, meaning that they are used to noise pollution, so outcry is rare. The city is (relatively) near to other major ones, such as Miami, Tampa, New Orleans, and (though further, still single-flight) Mexico City, Houston, and Austin. And Atlanta lies near numerous favourable air currents, speeding travel in and out (especially the Gulf Stream). None of these things alone makes a good airport, but the combination of them all is what made Hartsfield-Jackson so popular.
SouthwestChief
+4
Level 73
Dec 8, 2017
Mainly that is has a massive, multi purpose hub for Delta. Atlanta is used for Trans-Atlantic connections, connections to Latin America, connections from the East Coast to Texas and the Southwest, connection from the East Coast to Florida (that's a big one), and direct flights to Atlanta (which is a large market considering tourism and business in a somewhat large metro area). Also, Atlanta has only one airport, compared to New York's seven. Lastly, Atlanta is in close enough proximity to many cities for a short flight (e.g. Charlotte, New Orleans, and touristy places in Florida), but not close enough for a short drive (like between, say, Boston-Bridgeport-New York-etc.)!
kalbahamut
+3
Level 79
Jul 22, 2019
Also I heard they have a lovely Hooters
nucos
+2
Level 58
Apr 7, 2015
Hi everyone! Why not trying one of mine? I have the European version... :)
CMJ
+1
Level 52
Aug 26, 2015
I wonder what the Port Authority has been drinking, or at least what their source I don't understand the absence of some locations like Vancouver and Singapore.
relessness
+6
Level 46
Oct 12, 2015
... Singapore is on the list, and Vancouver's Airport is smaller than Moscow (with is 50th)
samiamco
+1
Level 67
Jun 11, 2016
I suspect that most of the international traffic you'd expect to come in and out of Vancouver is already handled by Seattle, and because their so close, Vancouver just didn't try to replicate it. (Please note, that is just my personal theory, unsubstantiated by actual research.)
Djilas
+1
Level 86
Dec 8, 2017
Vancouver is around 22 million, still far from top 50
Roger77024
+1
Level 56
Nov 13, 2015
Surprised Phoenix is so high - and I used it 4 times monthly for a couple of years!
bluesdjben
+1
Level 74
Nov 13, 2015
I got all but #2 and was wondering what city it could possibly be when I realized I mistyped Beijing.
relessness
+2
Level 46
Nov 13, 2015
Don't forget to check out my Worlds busiest airport systems quiz. Looks at each cities combines airport passenger usage rather than just the individual airport.
Arp2600
+1
Level 89
Nov 13, 2015
I only missed Minneapolis, and must have mispelled Sao Paulo because it was not validated though I tried it.
irish41
+3
Level 58
Nov 13, 2015
Hi, I'm one of those morons in the 1% who forgot NYC. Derp.
Minteh
+1
Level 22
Nov 16, 2015
Congrats! I managed to get it ;)
tonette
+1
Level 60
Nov 13, 2015
Newark is in NJ not NY.
kalbahamut
+7
Level 79
Nov 14, 2015
This isn't about the states that these airports are in, it's about which major cities these airports service.
Minteh
+19
Level 22
Nov 16, 2015
No Newark is in Nottinghamshire
DeusCaritasEst
+3
Level 54
Nov 15, 2015
I was surprised Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro weren't on the list. Anyone know why? (Honest question; the cities are so big I would have assumed they'd have busy airports).
kalbahamut
+1
Level 79
Nov 16, 2015
I'm guessing because they're kind of at the southwesternmost edge of the map... there's probably not a lot of transit flights going through either city. I mean, flights that use the airport in Rio or Buenos Aires are probably almost exclusively flights that are terminating in or originating from those cities, as opposed to all of the top answers which are huge hubs of international travel with many millions of people using each airport simply for a layover on their way somewhere else (and also, with the possible exception of Dubai, giant cities in their own right).

Sao Paulo makes the list. But it's urban area population is twice that of Rio or Buenos Aires. If you cut the amount of traffic for Sao Paulo in half for these other cities then obviously they wouldn't be seeing as much traffic as Moscow.

Liopleurodon
+1
Level 66
Nov 15, 2015
Of course all of the ones I missed are in the US...................................
Jerry928
+2
Level 76
Nov 16, 2015
Where does Mecca come? I would have thought with the constant volume of pilgrims there would be a heap of flights to there.
relessness
+5
Level 46
Nov 17, 2015
Mecca is served by Jeddah airport which handles 27 million passengers a year
kalbahamut
+1
Level 79
Nov 18, 2015
What relessness said. Mecca has no airport.
plattitude
+2
Level 94
Nov 18, 2015
Consider accepting St Paul for Minneapolis?
AlfieJMD
+1
Level 38
Apr 6, 2016
I can never spell Kuala Lumpur...
baconandeggs
+1
Level 48
May 16, 2016
how did I miss Paris *facepalm*
TomJStadler
+2
Level 30
Jan 17, 2017
I missed London, I kept trying to put Heathrow.
thebest21
+1
Level 70
Feb 7, 2017
I got Shenzhen but I missed Amsterdam!
MrSplashMan19
+6
Level 38
Mar 29, 2017
*gets Charlotte* *misses Paris*
100Greats
+1
Level 56
May 25, 2017
Great quiz! Check also my new "Best airports of the World 2016" based on Lonely Planet survey.
yorksguy1865
+1
Level 34
Jun 11, 2017
Missed a couple of obvious ones, after a while it just became an exercise in naming big cities!
ahertzy
+1
Level 87
Sep 10, 2017
very surprised at exclusion of Moscow and Sao Paolo . . .
Djilas
+3
Level 86
Dec 8, 2017
Moscow has 3 major airports, actually 3 busiest in Russia, and even so it almost makes the list. Here are the numbers for 2015:

Sheremetyevo 31.6 m

Domodedovo 30.5 m

Vnukovo 15.82 m

There's also Zhukovsky, new airport opened in 2016, with 4 million declared capacity.

Djilas
+1
Level 86
Dec 8, 2017
And there would've been a lot more without visa issues. St Petersburg is at only 13 million.
Nige
+2
Level 53
Dec 15, 2017
Likewise for Sao Paulo - three international airports with a total of over 66 million - the busiest (Guarulhos) at 36.6 million just misses the list.
brandybuck96
+3
Level 82
Sep 23, 2017
That moment when you have loads of gaps left, and you suddenly realise you'd forgotten the entirety of Europe...
theguy316
+1
Level 39
Nov 4, 2017
surely just JFK should be accepted
Sifhraven
+1
Level 76
Mar 15, 2020
That isn't a city, read the description before commenting please (which would cut complaints in half, atleast)
Maladroit
+1
Level 50
Dec 8, 2017
Saw an article yesterday about why Abu Dhabi has an F1 Grand Prix but Dubai does not. Wondered why they would both have one (being in the same country) until I say this quiz. It is kind of odd with the knowledge that Dubai has the third-largest airport in the world.
Maladroit
+1
Level 50
Jan 9, 2018
*saw
kenpo17
+1
Level 65
Dec 8, 2017
I knew Chicago wasn't the busiest airport in the world anymore, but I didn't realize it had fallen THAT far.
Lilylee
+1
Level 79
Dec 8, 2017
The Pearl River Delta must have like 200 million combined. Mind blown,
Encenia
+1
Level 54
Dec 8, 2017
Can someone explain to me why "Canton" worked as an input for Guangzhou?
Prot
+4
Level 55
Dec 9, 2017
Canton is an old name for the city of Guangzhou (and also the province of Guangdong).
Nige
+3
Level 53
Dec 15, 2017
Which is why the IATA code is "CAN"
kalbahamut
+3
Level 79
Dec 11, 2017
Curiously Peking does not work for Beijing.
Penguinish
+1
Level 74
May 22, 2018
41/50, got Kunming as well :D
Aleksandro
+1
Level 47
May 28, 2018
40/50 missed quite a lot, like Denver and Seattle...
diademerouge
+1
Level 26
Jul 29, 2018
Moscow has three area airports and served ~76,000,000 in 2016 and ~89,000,000 in 2017. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_busiest_airports_in_Russia.

Just Sheremetyevo alone was 40,000,000 in 2017.

kalbahamut
+2
Level 79
Jul 22, 2019
I think they were on the quiz previously. But the data used is from 2016 and the answers are single airports not airport systems.
yorksguy1865
+1
Level 34
Apr 29, 2019
43/50.
Nestormakhno
+1
Level 79
Jul 22, 2019
I got everything but Phoenix Vegas and Manila
NauruPalau
+1
Level 48
Dec 25, 2019
Missed 3 Chinese ones. Good stuff

Chengdu

Xian

Kumning

NV1
+1
Level 55
Jan 30, 2020
Got all of them correct!
Sifhraven
+1
Level 76
Mar 14, 2020
Did pretty well! Missed kunming (first time I see it), shenzhen chengdu, charlotte, orlando, taipei and las vegas. Could have gotten the last 2 but not the others.

Pretty proud since I hardly typed in any wrong ones (did try 3 big s-american cities, rio, sao pãolo and buenos aires, and another in japan, top 3 africa, a couple of europe and berlin. Think that were most of my wrong guessed)

MrNoRide
+2
Level 32
Apr 20, 2020
I just knew Atlanta would be on top. I have been to that airport many times and there is always traffic there. If you are driving on a highway that goes near it like I-85 I-75, or I-285 I swear you will have seen so many planes taking off and landing by the time you have completely passed by it. Also, the TSA line there takes forever. Longest line for TSA I have ever been through.
parkave
+1
Level 56
Dec 7, 2020
Its Delta and Americans hub for the US I believe, most of their traffic goes through Atlanta
maxism
+1
Level 70
May 17, 2020
Great quiz! Just to say that the source link doesn't seem to work for me.
Quizmaster
+3
Level ∞
May 17, 2020
Replaced it with an archive.org link. These quizzes are not going to be updated for awhile since the numbers are going to be very weird until we are done with Covid.
cherrell410
+2
Level 42
Jun 19, 2020
50/50 IM 11
Hezzer619
+4
Level 58
Sep 22, 2021
56/50 IM AN UNBORN ALIEN ORGANISM
Tramp
+1
Level 79
Jun 12, 2024
50/50. I am a 25 billion years old ethereal being.
Casmene
+1
Level 54
Jul 7, 2020
Sao Paulo?
AlexThirkell
+3
Level 74
Jan 11, 2021
Well this quiz might have changed a tad over the last year...
Georockstar
+1
Level 58
Jan 16, 2021
I missed Sydney, Amsterdam and Taipei but managed to get Kunming...
chailattee
+1
Level 68
Mar 30, 2021
I got Kunming but missed Mumbai and Barcelona🤦‍♂️
DuvalTilWeDie
+2
Level 55
Apr 16, 2021
Had to look up Kunming, is that a layover spot? Apparently it's under 7 million people, so my only other guess is tourist destination. Great quiz though
kalbahamut
+2
Level 79
May 15, 2021
Are you from China? Where else in the world would "under 7 million people" not seem like an astronomical number? Atlanta (#1 on the list) only has a metro area of 6 million.
laspapas
+1
Level 45
Aug 2, 2021
Im Chinese and I flew through Kunming three times both as layover and destination. Yunnan is one of the most popular tourist areas for Chinese people and also China Eastern uses it as a base for Southeast asia as well as many european and middle eastern countries (I was on layover to Dubai my first trip there)
SpencerGT
+1
Level 68
Sep 22, 2021
Lol forgot New York.
kubelka
+1
Level 12
Oct 14, 2021
You got Narita and Haneda mixed up. Narita is the international airport and Haneda is mostly domestic.
Odi
+1
Level 43
Jun 14, 2022
dubai :) my city
manOFsteel
+2
Level 44
Jul 28, 2022
Considering Newark is an entirely separate city and is known as Newark Liberty International Airport (in New Jersey), I wouldn't put that under New York and I would make it a separate option.
EcceHomo
+1
Level 86
Oct 28, 2022
42/50 gives me 4 points and takes me to level 75.
stubart409
+1
Level 69
Nov 26, 2022
I have a southern hemisphere version of this quiz if anyone is interested : https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/156455/busiest-airports-in-the-southern-hemisphere
TrickyTags
+1
Level 67
Dec 3, 2022
Really surprised about Manila
adam4013
+3
Level 20
Jan 11, 2023
50/50 Still in the womb
salvadoran
+4
Level 62
Oct 27, 2023
If you ever feel stupid: I missed Munich... My hometown.
McKenzieFam
+1
Level 68
Nov 27, 2023
How did I get everything except Istanbul, Bangkok, and Madrid?????
PetJunk001
+2
Level 59
Jun 11, 2024
Just updated it today and I did it...have to say...extremely surprised by all the changes. Moscow falling off the list I understand but Beijing used to be 2nd and where did Hong Kong go!?
Raffles
+3
Level 81
Jun 11, 2024
Beijing and Chengdu has multiple airports. It is better to specify which airport the data refers to.
BCP
+2
Level 71
Jun 11, 2024
Got all but 7 - mainly Chinese cities I coudn't spell!

Very surprised that Hong Kong is no longer on this list.

JackintheBox
+2
Level 82
Jun 12, 2024
I would've expected Hong Kong to be here!
HyddenRizz
+1
Level 67
Jun 12, 2024
16 in the USA!

I got about 10 and thought I'd tried so many USA cities, but I was suspicious at missing the top answer... Was sure it would be in Asia somewhere.

driehoek25
+1
Level 70
Jun 12, 2024
The fact that I got all Chinese cities but not Orlando or Las Vegas.
RowLet
+3
Level 56
Jun 12, 2024
This is a slight nitpick but Chengdu actually has two airports. It would be nice if you can specify that the quiz is referring to Tianfu, and not Shuangliu airport like the other cities on this list.
barmanitan
+1
Level 84
Jun 12, 2024
I think they're only meant to be there when one city has multiple on the list, so I'm assuming Narita has recently fallen off the list and Haneda should now be removed from Tokyo
SouthwestChief
+1
Level 73
Jun 12, 2024
Hmm. Might be nice to accept Guangzhou and Shenzhen for each other given that they're usually counted as in the same urban area on JetPunk quizzes.
partdavid
+1
Level 74
Jun 12, 2024
It seems it's quite difficult to make a pleasant large airport. I certainly haven't been to a fraction of the ones on this list, but out of the ones I have flown through (ATL, LHR, HND, DEN, LAX, ORD, CDG, JFK, FRA, MCO, LAS, MIA, SEA, SFO, BCN, EWR, MEX) I only really like anything about SFO and maybe HND, with JFK, FRA and ATL standing out as particularly bad. Mostly due to layout and the inconvenience of changing terminals--what genius stretches terminals out in a line like ATL (so you have to go through a bunch of irrelevant terminals on the airtrain to get to the one you want) or on opposite sides of the field like MEX? Or does whatever the F JFK has going on? At least SEA seems to roughly get multiple discontinuous terminals correct (lousy services though). SFO's squashed 'U' with contra-course circular airtrains seems about optimal, which you can see in contrast with LAX (another 'U') which ruins the idea by making it very long, without easy crossings.
ATLFalconsFan
+1
Level 41
Feb 20, 2025
ATL is good
Pragerotem
+1
Level 49
Jul 14, 2024
Please combine Shenzhen with guangzhou
CleverAnt
+4
Level 50
Aug 5, 2024
Why? There are two entirely different airports in different cities
bigred34
+1
Level 56
Apr 27, 2026
the question states Urban areas, not specific airports. Like Newark is a fairly busy airport, but it is grouped in with the New York City area.
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Apr 27, 2026
Done. Thank you.
ATLFalconsFan
+1
Level 41
Feb 20, 2025
fix type-ins I try to type hartsfield Jackson for Atlanta and it doesn't work
ooftownroad
+1
Level 70
May 4, 2026
You have to type the city, not the airport
illogicalvulcan
+2
Level 51
Dec 9, 2025
Took me an embarrassing amount of time to figure out why JFK wasn't working.
LeonK
+2
Level 53
Jan 10, 2026
American airports have a high number of domestic flights - in terms of international flights I cannot imagine them having more than somewhere like Healthrow...
Jopanderi
+1
Level 5
Apr 29, 2026
This shows the amount of what americans fly. Too much!!
kayokayokayo
+1
Level 59
May 3, 2026
I am assuming the # is for passengers. I don't see that stated anywhere.
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