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List of the busiest airports in the Middle East

This is a list of the busiest airports in the Middle East (handling more than 5,000,000 passengers per year), ranked by total passengers per year, including both terminal and transit passengers.

The tables also show the percentage change in total passengers for each airport over the last year. Data is sourced individually for each airport and normally originates from national aviation authority statistics, or those of the airport operator or international civil aviation authorities.

2023 statistics edit

2023 data is being updated as not all Airports and state regulatory entities have disclosed the statistic up until now.

Rank Airport City served Country Code
(IATA/ICAO)		 Total
passengers		 Rank
change		 %
change
01. Dubai International Airport Dubai   United Arab Emirates DXB/OMDB 86,900,000[1]    031.7%
02. Istanbul Airport Istanbul   Turkey IST/LTFM 76,236,980[2]    018.2%
03. Hamad International Airport Doha   Qatar DOH/OTHH 45,916,104[3]    025.8%
04. King Abdulaziz International Airport Jeddah   Saudi Arabia JED/OEJN 42,700,000[4]    034.9%
05. Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen International Airport Istanbul   Turkey SAW/LTFJ 37,030,005[2]  01  020.5%
06. Antalya Airport Antalya   Turkey AYT/LTAI 35,538,387[2]  01  014.2%
07. King Khalid International Airport Riyadh   Saudi Arabia RUH/OERK 29,000,000[5]    010.3%
08. Cairo International Airport Cairo   Egypt CAI/HECA 26,000,000[6]    029.9%
09. Abu Dhabi International Airport Abu Dhabi   United Arab Emirates AUH/OMAA 22,935,316[7]  01  047.6%
10 David Ben Gurion International Airport Tel Aviv   Israel TLV/LLBG 21,088,237[8]  01  009.7%
11. Kuwait International Airport Kuwait City   Kuwait KWI/OKKK 15,616,800[9]    008.0%
12. Sharjah International Airport Sharjah   United Arab Emirates SHJ/OMSJ 15,300,000[10]    017.7%
13. Muscat International Airport Muscat   Oman MCT/OOMS 012,600,000[11]  04  046.5%
14. Mehrabad International Airport Tehran   Iran THR/OIII TBU  01 TBU
15. Ankara Esenboğa Airport Ankara   Turkey ESB/LTAC 11.914.082[2]  01  037.3%
16. King Fahd International Airport Dammam   Saudi Arabia DMM/OEDF 10,900,000[12]  02  009.0%
17. İzmir Adnan Menderes Airport İzmir   Turkey ADB/LTBJ 10,691,522[2]  02  008.7%
18. Queen Alia International Airport Amman   Jordan AMM/OJAI 09,500,000[13]    021.2%
19. Prince Mohammad bin Abdulaziz International Airport Medina   Saudi Arabia MED/OEMA 09,423,410[14]  03  048.6%
20. Bahrain International Airport Manama   Bahrain BAH/OBBI 08,700,000[15]    026.1%
21. Hurghada International Airport Hurghada   Egypt HRG/HEGN 08,700,000[6]  02  021.4%
22. Larnaca International Airport Larnaca   Cyprus LCA/LCLK 08,100,000[16]  02  034.2%
23. Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport Beirut   Lebanon BEY/OLBA 07,100,000[17]  02  011.8%
24. Imam Khomeini International Airport Tehran   Iran IKA/OIIE TBU  01 TBU
25. Mashhad Shahid Hasheminejad International Airport Mashhad   Iran MHD/OIMM TBU   TBU
26. Sharm El Sheikh International Airport Sharm El Sheikh   Egypt SSH/HESH 05,900,000[6]    031.1%
27. Dalaman Airport Dalaman   Turkey DLM/LTBS 05,247,488[2]    016.0%

2022 statistics edit

Rank Airport City served Country Code
(IATA/ICAO)		 Total
passengers		 Rank
change		 %
change
01. Dubai International Airport Dubai   United Arab Emirates DXB/OMDB 66,069,981[18]  01  127.0%
02. Istanbul Airport Istanbul   Turkey IST/LTFM 64,518,073[19]  01  073.5%
03. Hamad International Airport Doha   Qatar DOH/OTHH 35,730,482[18]  03  101.8%
04. King Abdulaziz International Airport Jeddah   Saudi Arabia JED/OEJN 31,648,324[18]  03  134.6%
05. Antalya Airport Antalya   Turkey AYT/LTAI 31,108,181[19]  01  041.3%
06. Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen International Airport Istanbul   Turkey SAW/LTFJ 30,737,854[19]  03  023.4%
07. King Khalid International Airport Riyadh   Saudi Arabia RUH/OERK 26,299,612[18]  02  063.5%
08. Cairo International Airport Cairo   Egypt CAI/HECA 20,009,336[20] TBU  076.4%
09. David Ben Gurion International Airport Tel Aviv   Israel TLV/LLBG 20,008,532[21] TBU  197.8%
10. Abu Dhabi International Airport Abu Dhabi   United Arab Emirates AUH/OMAA 15,540,000[22] TBU  202.0%
11. Kuwait International Airport Kuwait City   Kuwait KWI/OKKK 14,460,000[23] TBU  306.1%
12. Sharjah International Airport Sharjah   United Arab Emirates SHJ/OMSJ 13,000,000[24] TBU  084.7%
13. Mehrabad International Airport Tehran   Iran THR/OIII 12,430,000[25] TBU  013.0%
14. King Fahd International Airport Dammam   Saudi Arabia DMM/OEDF 10,000,000[26] TBU  066.7%
15. İzmir Adnan Menderes Airport İzmir   Turkey ADB/LTBJ 09,834,578[19] TBU  029.9%
16. Ankara Esenboğa Airport Ankara   Turkey ESB/LTAC 08,679,594[19] TBU  023.5%
17. Muscat International Airport Muscat   Oman MCT/OOMS 08,600,000[27] TBU  132.0%
18. Queen Alia International Airport Amman   Jordan AMM/OJAI 07,837,501[28] TBU  071.9%
19. Hurghada International Airport Hurghada   Egypt HRG/HEGN 07,164,088[20] TBU  046.0%
20. Bahrain International Airport Manama   Bahrain BAH/OBBI 06,900,000[29] TBU  127.5%
21. Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport Beirut   Lebanon BEY/OLBA 06,349,799[30] TBU  047.0%
22. Prince Mohammad bin Abdulaziz International Airport Medina   Saudi Arabia MED/OEMA 06,340,684[31] TBU  024.4%
23. Imam Khomeini International Airport Tehran   Iran IKA/OIIE 06,211,927 TBU  205.0%
24. Larnaca International Airport Larnaca   Cyprus LCA/LCLK 06,037,133[32] TBU  068.1%
25. Mashhad Shahid Hasheminejad International Airport Mashhad   Iran MHD/OIMM 05,970,000[25] TBU TBU

See also edit

References edit

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