Miami International Airport (MIA) handled 55.3 million passengers in 2025, its second consecutive year above the 55 million mark. The airport ranks second in the United States for international passengers and first for international freight, offering around 190 nonstop destinations. This page gathers the key Miami airport statistics from official publications in one place and links a source for every figure.
MIA at a glance (2025)
| Metric | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total passengers | 55.3 million |
| International passengers | 24.8M (No. 2 nationwide) |
| Average passengers per day | ≈151,500 |
| Cargo handled | ≈3.5M tons (No. 1 nationwide) |
| Nonstop destinations | ≈190, of which 107 international |
| Passenger airlines | 57 |
| US rank by total passengers | 8th |
| Economic impact for Florida | $212 billion, ≈946,000 jobs |
Sources: Miami-Dade Aviation Department (MDAD) year-end releases for 2025; details and links below.
Passenger traffic by year
| Year | Total | International | Domestic |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 18.7M | 7.4M | — |
| 2023 | 52.3M | 23.2M | 29.1M |
| 2024 | 55.9M (record) | 25.2M | 30.8M |
| 2025 | 55.3M | 24.8M | 30.5M |
The all-time record belongs to 2024, when 55.9 million travelers passed through the airport. Traffic in 2025 stayed within one percent of that peak, so the post-pandemic level looks like the new normal rather than a spike. Airports Council International, North America has also singled MIA out as the fastest-growing US mega-airport compared with 2019, with seat capacity up 24 percent on pre-pandemic levels (cited in the county's 2024 traffic release).
How MIA ranks in the US and worldwide
The official MDAD rankings, compiled from Airports Council International data for calendar year 2024, together with the 2025 year-end release, place the airport as follows:
- Second among US airports for international passengers (25.2 million in 2024), behind only New York JFK.
- Eighth nationally by overall traffic in 2025, up from tenth a year earlier.
- First in the country for international freight: 2.53 million tons in 2024, a 13.7% jump.
- Third in the world for total cargo in 2025, after Hong Kong and Shanghai Pudong.
- 27th globally by total passengers, with 485,448 aircraft operations in 2024 (ninth-busiest domestically).
Cargo: America's gateway to Latin America
Freight is where the airport leads the nation. About 3.5 million tons of cargo moved through MIA in 2025, up 13.6% and a record for the sixth year running. Per the aviation department's own rankings report, roughly 82 percent of all air imports and 73 percent of air exports between the United States and Latin America or the Caribbean travel via Miami. Nearly 60 percent of Florida's entire international passenger traffic also comes through this one airport.
Airlines, destinations and infrastructure
Fifty-seven passenger airlines connect Miami nonstop to about 190 destinations, 107 of them international; no other US airport offers more international nonstop routes, according to the airport authority. American Airlines runs its third-largest hub here and carried 31.4 million passengers through MIA in 2023, with up to 390 departures and arrivals on peak days. Among the busiest international routes are London Heathrow, Bogotá, Lima, Panama City and São Paulo.
Physically the airport consists of three terminals (North, Central and South) with concourses D through J, plus four runways: three parallel east-west strips and one crosswind. Builders are currently adding Concourse K as part of a modernization program worth more than $9 billion.
Records and busiest days
- Single-day record: 171,371 passengers, set on December 17, 2023.
- For Thanksgiving 2025, MDAD projected about 1.96 million passengers over the 12-day holiday period, with peak days around 170,000 travelers.
- During spring break, the busiest March weeks exceed 1.4 million passengers, or about 180,000 per day.
- Across 2025 the daily average was roughly 151,500 passengers, split about 55/45 between domestic and international flights.
Economic impact
An independent study by Martin Associates, based on 2025 data and released in June 2026, put the airport's total economic contribution to Florida at a record $212 billion, up 17 percent ($31 billion) on the previous study. The same researchers counted 945,682 jobs supported across the state, a 12 percent increase of more than 100,000 positions.
Sources and update schedule
Every figure on this page comes from an official publication and is checked against the original:
- MDAD Airport Statistics portal: monthly and annual traffic reports.
- MDAD: US and Worldwide Airport Rankings 2024 (ACI data).
- MDAD 2025 year-end release: passengers, cargo, destinations.
- MDAD: economic impact study (Martin Associates).
- Miami-Dade County: single-day passenger record.
- FAA passenger and cargo statistics.
We last updated this page on July 4, 2026. Full-year 2026 totals typically appear in MDAD reports in late January or February 2027, and the official ACI-based rankings PDF follows around mid-year. The page gets refreshed as new official data comes out. Journalists and researchers are welcome to cite these statistics with a link to this page or to the original sources above.
