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Season Outlook · Mykonos · 2026
Mykonos airport: August traffic rises 7.5%, led by international routes
Fraport records 426,229 passengers for August and 1.31 million for January–August. Comparing the two tables shows how heavily the increase depends on international traffic.
Mykonos airport terminal photographed at night by Mykonos Illustrated. The capture date is unconfirmed; the image does not document August 2026 passenger counts.
What happened
Mykonos airport handled 426,229 passengers in August 2026, compared with 396,604 a year earlier, according to Fraport Greece’s provisional traffic table. The published increase is 7.5%. International traffic reached 336,300, up 8.3%, while domestic traffic rose 4.4% to 89,929.
Subtracting the 2025 totals from the 2026 figures gives an additional 29,625 passenger movements in August. International routes account for 25,861 of that increase, or about 87%; domestic routes contribute 3,764. This calculation makes the source of the growth clearer than the overall percentage alone.
Why it matters
The eight-month comparison points in the same direction. From January to August, Mykonos recorded 1,313,175 passengers against 1,231,739 in 2025, an increase of 6.6%. International traffic grew 8.6% to 946,352; domestic traffic increased 1.7% to 366,823. Of the additional 81,436 passenger movements, 75,221 — about 92% — came from the international side.
August was therefore growing faster than the cumulative period, without reversing its international-led pattern. As a benchmark, the operator’s 14-airport network recorded increases of 5.1% in August and 5.3% over January–August. Those are network comparisons, not measures of the whole Greek tourism market.
The article compares the August release. The maintained Mykonos airport traffic data place it alongside every published month from January 2024 and record the revised August 2025 comparator.
Planning relevance
These figures describe airport traffic, not unique holidaymakers. They do not measure ferry passengers, hotel occupancy, visitor spending or how revenue is distributed on the island. The reporting period ends on 31 August, so it cannot establish September demand or the final outcome of the 2026 season.
Fraport labels the tables provisional and subject to change. Both were read on 22 September; an exact publication date is not shown. The absolute changes and shares of growth above are our calculations from the published totals, rounded to whole percentages. Our separate airport report covers announced winter runway restrictions, which concern future service availability rather than these summer traffic results.
Key facts
- August 2026 passengers
- 426,229 (+7.5%)
- January–August 2026 passengers
- 1,313,175 (+6.6%)
- Statistical cutoff
- 31 August 2026; provisional
- Category / status
- Season Outlook / Completed
- Primary source
- Fraport Greece ↗
Developments / timeline
Sources
- Fraport Greece — August 2026 airport traffic
Fraport Greece · Operator · Checked 22 Sept 2026
- Fraport Greece — January–August 2026 airport traffic
Fraport Greece · Operator · Checked 22 Sept 2026
Last editorial check
22 Sept 2026 · Mykonos Illustrated editorial desk.