which cities are rising, and which are fading

1. 1 London UK 178.5M
2. 2 New York USA 142.7M
3. 3 Shanghai China 135.1M
4. 4 Istanbul Türkiye 132.9M
5. 5 Beijing China 124.4M
6. 6 Paris France 107.0M
7. 7 Chicago USA 104.2M
8. 8 Los Angeles USA 102.2M
9. 9 Dubai UAE 95.2M
10. 10 Bangkok Thailand 94.5M
11. 11 Chengdu China 90.2M
12. 12 Delhi India 78.1M
13. 13 São Paulo Brazil 71.7M
14. 14 Singapore Singapore 70.0M
15. 15 Madrid Spain 68.2M
16. 16 Shenzhen China 66.5M
17. 17 Hong Kong China 61.0M
18. 18 Bengaluru India 43.8M
19. 19 Sydney Australia 42.5M
20. 20 Riyadh Saudi Arabia 40.8M
21. 21 Santiago Chile 26.5M
22. 22 Berlin Germany 26.1M
23. – Abidjan Côte d'Ivoire not reported
24. – Addis Ababa Ethiopia not reported
25. – Baghdad Iraq not reported
26. – Bogotá Colombia not reported
27. – Buenos Aires Argentina not reported
28. – Cairo Egypt not reported
29. – Dar es Salaam Tanzania not reported
30. – Dhaka Bangladesh not reported
31. – Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam not reported
32. – Jakarta Indonesia not reported
33. – Johannesburg South Africa not reported
34. – Karachi Pakistan not reported
35. – Khartoum Sudan not reported
36. – Kinshasa DR Congo not reported
37. – Kolkata India not reported
38. – Lagos Nigeria not reported
39. – Lahore Pakistan not reported
40. – Lima Peru not reported
41. – Luanda Angola not reported
42. – Manila Philippines not reported
43. – Mexico City Mexico not reported
44. – Moscow Russia not reported
45. – Mumbai India not reported
46. – Nairobi Kenya not reported
47. – Rio de Janeiro Brazil not reported
48. – Seoul South Korea not reported
49. – Tehran Iran not reported
50. – Tokyo Japan not reported

Source: airport operators and national aviation authorities (one per airport) · 2025 data. 28 cities have no published figure from a primary source yet. Cities with no full-year figure from the airport or its regulator show as not reported; most African, South Asian and Latin American airports publish none yet. New York: Port Authority total for its airports, rounded; Los Angeles: five airports in the region; Dubai: DXB only; Dubai World Central (about 1m) not yet published for the full year; Bangkok: Don Mueang given as 31.6m in AOT's summary and 31.7m in its chart; Delhi: summed from the operator's monthly filings; São Paulo: Guarulhos rounded by its operator; Hong Kong: rounded by the airport authority; Sydney: published as 'more than 42.54 million'.