Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport passengers, France
Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport passengers, France stood at 5,582,818 Passengers in Mar 2026, according to DGAC – Direction générale de l'Aviation civile (data.gouv.fr). It is one of the indicators in the Monthly air traffic table (Value · Monthly), with a complete series running from Jan 2002 to Mar 2026. The complete series with an interactive chart, free to download.
This indicator in the Monthly air traffic table
| Indicator | 03-2026 | 02-2026 | 01-2026 | 12-2025 | 11-2025 | 10-2025 | 09-2025 | 08-2025 | 07-2025 | 06-2025 | |
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| Passengers by airport | |||||||||||
| Paris-Charles de Gaulle | 5,582,818 | 4,975,019 | 5,363,429 | 5,928,281 | 5,407,319 | 6,182,977 | 6,129,539 | 6,929,662 | 6,831,605 | 6,432,586 | |
| Paris-Orly | 2,727,672 | 2,433,286 | 2,469,606 | 2,640,289 | 2,423,967 | 3,148,662 | 3,100,591 | 3,479,956 | 3,383,130 | 3,260,016 |
Understanding paris-Charles de Gaulle airport passengers, France
Total passenger throughput handled at the primary national capital hub encompasses all boarding, disembarking, and connecting individuals processed through its terminal facilities. This specific airport metric captures the massive concentration of intercontinental transfer traffic, domestic feeder flights, and international routes managed at the country's largest aviation facility. It differs from nationwide totals by isolating the operational dynamics, capacity bottlenecks, and hub-and-spoke network effects of a single dominant infrastructure node.
Interpreting this single-facility series requires awareness of labor disputes, air traffic control strikes, and infrastructure maintenance events that can cause abrupt monthly volume drops. Seasonal peaking is pronounced, driven by heavy intercontinental transfer waves and European holiday traffic. Year-on-year evaluation offers a reliable trend view, while preliminary monthly estimates are routinely adjusted following final carrier audits. Analysts must not assume that growth at this single primary hub mirrors activity across secondary regional airports.
Frequently asked questions
- Does this airport metric count passengers transferring between connecting flights?
- Yes, connecting passengers who disembark and transit through the terminals are counted twice—upon arrival and departure.
- How do operational disruptions uniquely impact this primary hub?
- Labor strikes or air traffic control limits can instantly ripple across the entire national connection network.
- Can this specific airport's growth rate be applied to all other regional facilities?
- No, regional airports operate under entirely different capacity constraints and market demand drivers.