Daily Traffic by Airport

Daily departing and arriving IFR flights at the main European airports, compared with 2019 and the previous year.

Updated daily Daily data Data to November 5, 2026 Source dashboard

Operational data, updated every day up to yesterday. Recent days may be revised; Polaris keeps every day it has received, so history continues past the end of each year.

Data and Resources

API

Daily traffic, main airports

API name: daily-traffic-airports--main-airports

First 5 rows · Download all rows: CSV · TSV · JSON · XML

Code examples

curl

curl 'https://polaris.goens.dev/api/3/action/datastore_search?resource_id=daily-traffic-airports--main-airports&limit=5'

Python

import pandas as pd

df = pd.read_csv('https://polaris.goens.dev/datastore/dump/daily-traffic-airports--main-airports?format=csv')

R

df <- read.csv('https://polaris.goens.dev/datastore/dump/daily-traffic-airports--main-airports?format=csv')

Daily traffic, top 100 airports

API name: daily-traffic-airports--top-100-airports

First 5 rows · Download all rows: CSV · TSV · JSON · XML

Code examples

curl

curl 'https://polaris.goens.dev/api/3/action/datastore_search?resource_id=daily-traffic-airports--top-100-airports&limit=5'

Python

import pandas as pd

df = pd.read_csv('https://polaris.goens.dev/datastore/dump/daily-traffic-airports--top-100-airports?format=csv')

R

df <- read.csv('https://polaris.goens.dev/datastore/dump/daily-traffic-airports--top-100-airports?format=csv')

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Cite this data

Source: EUROCONTROL Aviation Intelligence Unit. Daily Traffic by Airport. https://polaris.goens.dev/dataset/daily-traffic-airports

May be copied in whole or in part, provided that EUROCONTROL is mentioned as the source and it is not used for commercial purposes. Full disclaimer

About this data

Traffic at airport level is the total of departing and arriving IFR flights. The main airports table matches the dashboard's download. The top 100 airports table is the wider set the dashboard uses for its breakdowns.

Data sources

Published by
EUROCONTROL Aviation Intelligence Unit
Underlying data
Network Manager

The table view shows where each column comes from, under Data Dictionary.

Additional Info

Field Value
Update frequency Daily
Time resolution Daily
Data from 2018-12-30
Data to 2026-11-05
Data description
Methodology
Source page https://www.eurocontrol.int/Economics/DailyTrafficVariation-Airports.html