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Busiest airports in the world

The world’s major hubs ranked by their current scheduled activity — daily departures and the number of nonstop destinations they serve. Tap any airport for runways, frequencies, live boards and more.

Most daily departures

  1. 1Chicago O'Hare International AirportORD1,512/day
  2. 2Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International AirportATL1,224/day
  3. 3Dallas Fort Worth International AirportDFW1,177/day
  4. 4Denver International AirportDEN1,177/day
  5. 5Los Angeles International AirportLAX899/day
  6. 6Charlotte Douglas International AirportCLT825/day
  7. 7Shanghai Pudong International AirportPVG748/day
  8. 8Amsterdam Airport SchipholAMS746/day
  9. 9London Heathrow AirportLHR745/day
  10. 10Tokyo Haneda International AirportHND745/day
  11. 11Charles de Gaulle International AirportCDG742/day
  12. 12Frankfurt Main AirportFRA733/day
  13. 13George Bush Intercontinental AirportIAH709/day
  14. 14Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas AirportMAD706/day
  15. 15San Francisco International AirportSFO697/day
  16. 16John F. Kennedy International AirportJFK687/day
  17. 17Indira Gandhi International AirportDEL681/day
  18. 18Seattle–Tacoma International AirportSEA670/day
  19. 19İstanbul AirportIST653/day
  20. 20Beijing Capital International AirportPEK634/day
  21. 21Incheon International AirportICN628/day
  22. 22Miami International AirportMIA616/day
  23. 23Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat AirportBCN610/day
  24. 24Newark Liberty International AirportEWR603/day
  25. 25Suvarnabhumi AirportBKK571/day
  26. 26Toronto Pearson International AirportYYZ563/day
  27. 27Rome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International AirportFCO556/day
  28. 28Singapore Changi AirportSIN547/day
  29. 29Munich AirportMUC546/day
  30. 30Dubai International AirportDXB513/day
  31. 31São Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International AirportGRU507/day
  32. 32Hong Kong International AirportHKG496/day
  33. 33Zürich AirportZRH452/day
  34. 34Sydney Kingsford Smith International AirportSYD443/day
  35. 35Mexico City Benito Juárez International AirportMEX418/day
  36. 36Hamad International AirportDOH338/day
  37. 37O.R. Tambo International AirportJNB290/day

Most nonstop destinations

  1. 1Chicago O'Hare International AirportORD294 cities
  2. 2İstanbul AirportIST292 cities
  3. 3Dallas Fort Worth International AirportDFW281 cities
  4. 4Charles de Gaulle International AirportCDG275 cities
  5. 5Frankfurt Main AirportFRA274 cities
  6. 6Amsterdam Airport SchipholAMS269 cities
  7. 7Denver International AirportDEN249 cities
  8. 8Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International AirportATL239 cities
  9. 9Miami International AirportMIA239 cities
  10. 10Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas AirportMAD235 cities
  11. 11Charlotte Douglas International AirportCLT231 cities
  12. 12John F. Kennedy International AirportJFK228 cities
  13. 13Los Angeles International AirportLAX226 cities
  14. 14Rome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International AirportFCO220 cities
  15. 15Zürich AirportZRH220 cities
  16. 16Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat AirportBCN219 cities
  17. 17London Heathrow AirportLHR215 cities
  18. 18George Bush Intercontinental AirportIAH213 cities
  19. 19Munich AirportMUC211 cities
  20. 20Dubai International AirportDXB208 cities
  21. 21Shanghai Pudong International AirportPVG206 cities
  22. 22Beijing Capital International AirportPEK204 cities
  23. 23Newark Liberty International AirportEWR200 cities
  24. 24San Francisco International AirportSFO197 cities
  25. 25Toronto Pearson International AirportYYZ195 cities
  26. 26Indira Gandhi International AirportDEL173 cities
  27. 27Singapore Changi AirportSIN163 cities
  28. 28Incheon International AirportICN161 cities
  29. 29Hamad International AirportDOH152 cities
  30. 30Suvarnabhumi AirportBKK146 cities
  31. 31Hong Kong International AirportHKG145 cities
  32. 32Seattle–Tacoma International AirportSEA141 cities
  33. 33São Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International AirportGRU118 cities
  34. 34Tokyo Haneda International AirportHND113 cities
  35. 35Mexico City Benito Juárez International AirportMEX108 cities
  36. 36Sydney Kingsford Smith International AirportSYD95 cities
  37. 37O.R. Tambo International AirportJNB82 cities

Across a curated set of 37 major hubs. Current scheduled-route data by AeroDataBox, refreshed daily — approximate.