Global air traffic: number of flights worldwide
Airportia tracked an average of 103,187 flights a day worldwide in the 7 days to 5 November 2026, 4.0% more than in the same week of 2025. That is about 32.1 million flights so far in 2026 (+3.3% on the same days of 2025).
Flights a day worldwide
103,187
Average of the 7 days to 5 November 2026
- ▲ +4.0% vs the same week in 2025 (99,220 a day)
- ▲ +97.8% vs the same week in 2020 (52,179 a day)
32.1 million flights so far in 2026 ▲ +3.3% on the same days of 2025
Source: Airportia Flights Monitor, airportia.com/flights-monitor/
2026 compared with previous years
Each point is the average of the 7 days ending that day. Lines stop at the latest day with data.
Daily figures are rounded up to a whole flight, so for countries with fewer than about 50 flights a day the year-over-year percentages can shift by a few points.
International and domestic flights
- International
- 36,913 a day
- 36% of flights , +3.0% vs 2025
- Domestic
- 66,274 a day
- 64% of flights , +4.6% vs 2025
- Flight miles
- 101.2 million a day
- +4.2% vs 2025
Countries: biggest rises and falls vs 2025
Flights a day in the week to 5 November 2026 against the same week a year earlier. Only countries with at least 50 flights a day in both years.
| Country | Flights/day | vs 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Tanzania | 176 | +91.3% |
| Peru | 962 | +90.1% |
| Ecuador | 299 | +63.4% |
| Libya | 79 | +54.9% |
| Nigeria | 306 | +50.7% |
| Aruba | 87 | +50.0% |
| Venezuela | 72 | +44.0% |
| Zimbabwe | 83 | +40.7% |
| Jamaica | 117 | +39.3% |
| Brazil | 3,536 | +35.6% |
| Country | Flights/day | vs 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Kuwait | 171 | −43.4% |
| Saudi Arabia | 1,040 | −42.8% |
| Cuba | 61 | −39.0% |
| Iran | 105 | −27.6% |
| Romania | 422 | −16.6% |
| Macau | 124 | −15.1% |
| Qatar | 656 | −13.5% |
| United Arab Emirates | 1,882 | −13.3% |
| Georgia | 163 | −11.9% |
| Oman | 220 | −11.6% |
Busiest countries
| # | Country | Flights/day | vs 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 30,354 | +7.9% |
| 2 | China | 14,033 | −2.4% |
| 3 | Spain | 4,827 | +6.1% |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 4,728 | −1.2% |
| 5 | Japan | 4,134 | −4.6% |
| 6 | India | 4,026 | −6.5% |
| 7 | Germany | 4,014 | +0.6% |
| 8 | Brazil | 3,536 | +35.6% |
| 9 | Italy | 3,348 | +9.1% |
| 10 | Canada | 3,290 | +24.0% |
Country counts include flights to, from and within the country, so an international flight counts for both countries.
Average flights per day by month
For the years ticked above the charts.
| Month | 2026 | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 95,965 | 91,954 | 86,256 | 81,246 | 69,667 | 50,223 | 90,320 |
| February | 98,848 | 93,378 | 88,991 | 83,769 | 70,679 | 45,489 | 85,467 |
| March | 97,802 | 93,213 | 90,113 | 85,720 | 72,315 | 54,858 | 66,502 |
| April | 100,587 | 98,005 | 94,510 | 89,182 | 74,611 | 58,840 | 20,709 |
| May | 100,593 | 99,339 | 95,638 | 90,375 | 79,511 | 58,354 | 20,068 |
| June | 103,862 | 101,633 | 99,334 | 93,279 | 84,412 | 63,235 | 25,373 |
| July | 109,853 | 105,357 | 101,842 | 96,432 | 89,302 | 71,325 | 39,843 |
| August | 113,313 | 110,493 | 103,127 | 96,503 | 89,469 | 69,491 | 55,034 |
| September | 108,866 | 105,729 | 98,948 | 93,311 | 84,651 | 71,831 | 53,661 |
| October | 107,404 | 105,500 | 98,133 | 92,328 | 82,060 | 73,550 | 52,601 |
| November | 105,451 | 98,176 | 91,981 | 87,024 | 77,429 | 71,336 | 52,019 |
| December | – | 98,527 | 92,475 | 87,583 | 78,291 | 73,687 | 54,561 |
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Source: Airportia, "Airportia Flights Monitor: daily flights worldwide (7-day average of flights tracked)", https://www.airportia.com/flights-monitor/, retrieved 6 November 2026.
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How we count
- What counts as a flight. A commercial scheduled flight in Airportia's flight database with a recorded actual departure or arrival time. Cancelled flights are excluded, and a codeshare is counted once (under the operating flight), not once per flight number.
- Cargo. Totals include all tracked flights, including cargo.
- Flights tracked, not all flights. These are flights tracked by Airportia from its schedule and status data suppliers, not every flight in the air. Private and military flights are not included. Part of any change between years can come from changes in coverage rather than in air traffic.
- Coverage change in July 2025. From 22 July 2025 our schedule supplier covers about 5% more flights worldwide (more or less in a given country). Year-over-year changes between 22 July 2025 and 21 July 2026 read about 5 points higher than the real change in traffic. Comparisons after that date are like for like again.
- 7-day average. Each daily figure is the number of flights scheduled in the 7 days (UTC) ending that day, divided by 7 and rounded up to a whole flight (or mile). This smooths out weekday patterns, so the same week of different years compares like with like. The rounding adds at most one flight a day, so for countries with fewer than about 50 flights a day year-over-year percentages can shift by a few points.
- Countries. A country's figure counts flights departing from or arriving in it; domestic flights have both airports in the country. Pages for countries with fewer than 20 flights a day are not indexed by search engines.
- Miles. Great-circle distance between the two airports in statute miles, summed over the flights in the 7 days, divided by 7 and rounded up to a whole mile.
- Updates and coverage. Updated once a day for the previous UTC day. Daily data starts in 2020; the charts can show every year from 2020–2026, with 2020 as the pandemic reference. Latest day: 5 November 2026.
- The figures are provided as they are, without guarantees, and are not travel advice.