May the 12th, 2025 – An impressive 422,000 passengers were recorded as having passed through 9 Croatian airports in March this year. The figure provides an encouraging look into the summer ahead.
As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, 422,000 passengers passed through 9 Croatian airports throughout March this year. That sum is representative of a 6.3 percent increase compared to March last year. In contrast, Croatian cargo traffic was lower, according to data from the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS).
In addition to the increase in the number of passengers, Croatian airports also recorded an increase in aircraft operations during the month of March, by 7.5 percent, to slightly more than 6,000.
There have been more passengers recorded at all of the 9 Croatian airports than the first three months of last year, by 9.3 percent, or a total of more than a million. The number of aircraft operations in the first three months of 2025 also increased by 6.5 percent, reaching over 16,100.
Cargo traffic at the 9 Croatian airports was lower than last year in both March and the first three months of this year. In March, it fell by 20.3 percent, to 842 tonnes, while in the first three months grouped together, it fell by 13 percent, to 2,200 tonnes.
The largest airport in Croatia, Zagreb International Airport, unsurprisingly processed the most passengers of all of the 9 Croatian airports scattered across the country. In March this year, it recorded 312.7 thousand passengers, up 6.3 percent from March last year. Looking at the first three months of the year entirely, the number of passengers increased by 7.6 percent, to 848.9 thousand passengers.
Split Airport followed Zagreb with 52.9 thousand passengers processed, representative of a 10.4 percent increase compared to last year. During the first three months of 2025, the increase was higher, by 15.1 percent, to 12.3 thousand passengers. Dubrovnik Airport ranked third with 48.7 thousand passengers processed in March, or 14.6 percent more, and with 90.8 thousand throughout the first three months of the year, which is 20.7 percent more than last year.
