List of the busiest airports in California
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List of the busiest airports in California
In Calendar year 2022 (FAA data) by 'passenger boardings, not total passengers, except for Tijuana. While large airports dominant traffic and small airports struggle to retain carriers or completely lose scheduled passenger service, there are but a few growing medium-sized airports. While only 13 airports had 350,000 boardings or more, the major metropolitan areas dominate the rankings; road traffic instead takes an outsized role in connecting to other regions of the state and winner-take-all dominating airports in traffic clogged areas like LAX crowd out smaller airports from commercial aviation, leaving little option but driving.
Airport list
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| Rank 2022 ||Airport||IATA Code||City !2023{{Cite web |date=October 2, 2024 |title=CY 2023 Enplanements at All Commercial Service Airports |url=https://www.faa.gov/sites/faa.gov/files/2024-10/cy23-commercial-service-enplanements.pdf |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20250212134453/https://www.faa.gov/sites/faa.gov/files/2024-10/cy23-commercial-service-enplanements.pdf |archive-date=2025-02-12 |access-date=2025-02-24 |website=Federal Aviation Administration}}||2022 || 2021|| 2018https://www.faa.gov/airports/planning_capacity/passenger_allcargo_stats/passenger/media/cy18-commercial-service-enplanements.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}||2017https://www.faa.gov/airports/planning_capacity/passenger_allcargo_stats/passenger/media/cy17-commercial-service-enplanements.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}||2016{{Cite web|url=https://www.faa.gov/airports/planning_capacity/passenger_allcargo_stats/passenger/media/cy16-commercial-service-enplanements.pdf|title=CY 2016 Primary Airports}}||2015||2014{{Cite web|url=http://www.faa.gov/airports/planning_capacity/passenger_allcargo_stats/passenger/media/cy14-commercial-service-enplanements.pdf|title=CY 2014 Primary Airports -- Preliminary Data}}||2013{{Cite web|url=http://www.faa.gov/airports/planning_capacity/passenger_allcargo_stats/passenger/media/cy13-commercial-service-enplanements.pdf|title=CY 2013 Primary Airports}} |
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|Los Angeles International Airport |LAX |40,956,673 |32,326,616 |23,663,410 |42,624,050 |41,232,432 |39,636,042 |36,351,272 |34,314,197 |32,425,892 |
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|San Francisco International Airport |SFO |24,191,159 |20,411,420 |11,725,347 |27,790,717 |26,900,048 |25,707,101 |24,190,560 |22,756,008 |21,704,626 |
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|San Diego International Airport |SAN |12,190,183 |11,162,224 |7,836,360 |12,174,224 |11,139,933 |10,340,164 |9,985,763 |9,333,152 |8,878,772 |
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|Tijuana International Airport{{efn|Tijuana airport is equipped to allow boarding from the California side via the Cross Border Xpress since the end of 2015, figures for this airport are in italics. It is Mexico's [http://www.anna.aero/2017/11/21/mexican-market-moves-past-100-million-seats-lccs-drive-growth-international-capacity-outpaces-domestic-expansion-in-2017/ 5th busiest airport by departure seats offered].}} |TIJ | |12,308,370 |9,677,900 |7,823,744 |7,089,219 | |4,387,865 | |
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|Sacramento International Airport |SMF |6,371,910 |6,040,824 |4,760,275 |5,907,629 |5,341,595 |4,969,366 |4,714,729 |4,384,616 |4,255,145 |
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|San Jose International Airport |SJC |5,958,855 |5,590,137 |3,619,690 |7,032,851 |6,130,878 |5,321,603 |4,822,480 |4,621,003 |4,315,839 |
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|SNA |5,706,332 |5,536,313 |3,807,205 |5,201,642 |5,082,716 |5,217,242 |4,945,209 |4,584,147 |4,540,628 |
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|Oakland International Airport |OAK |5,520,812 |5,506,232 |4,011,953 |6,686,603 |6,413,832 |5,934,639 |5,506,687 |5,069,257 |4,770,716 |
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|Ontario International Airport |ONT |3,181,161 |2,840,758 |2,201,528 |2,498,993 |2,247,645 |2,104,625 |2,089,801 |2,037,346 |1,970,538 |
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|BUR |3,132,029 |3,054,729 |1,942,417 |2,680,240 |2,402,106 |2,077,892 |1,973,897 |1,928,491 |1,918,011 |
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|LGB |1,837,634 |1,600,987 |1,039,432 |1,908,635 |1,830,745 |1,386,357 |1,220,937 |1,368,923 |1,438,756 |
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|Palm Springs International Airport |PSP |1,625,327 |1,499,987 |1,044,045 |1,163,883 |1,055,970 |995,801 |947,728 |953,607 |875,699 |
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|Fresno Yosemite International Airport |FAT |1,201,789 |1,077,710 |960,594 |853,538 |755,140 |761,298 |695,008 |710,353 |684,849 |
| 13
|Santa Barbara Municipal Airport |SBA |638,802 |610,916 |440,229 |403,745 |356,608 |329,751 |316,511 |355,049 |364,360 |
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|San Luis Obispo County Regional Airport |SBP |324,925 |273,690 | | | | | | | |
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|Charles M. Schulz–Sonoma County Airport |STS |318,197 |304,053 | | | | | | | |
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|MRY |259,778 |230,669 | | | | | | | |
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|BFL |174,891 |141,352 | | | | | | | |
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|ACV |117,972 |118,924 | | | | | | | |
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|RDD |87,670 |98,725 | | | | | | | |
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|Stockton Metropolitan Airport |SCK |67,688 |74,529 | | | | | | | |
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|San Bernardino International Airport |SBD |27,349 |10,142 | | | | | | | |
| 22
|SMX |14,409 |15,911 | | | | | | | |
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|Eastern Sierra Regional Airport |BIH |10,007 |10,754 | | | | | | | |
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|CEC |7,879 |8,218 | | | | | | | |
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|IPL |7,100 |9,180 | | | | | | | |
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|HHR |5,100 |5,001 | | | | | | | |
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|CRQ |4,329 |3,715 | | | | | | | |
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|MMH |3,966 |4,056 | | | | | | | |
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|MCE |3,798 |3,431 | | | | | | | |
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