Hamad International Airport (DOH) Statistics

Qatar's main aviation gateway, Hamad International Airport (DOH) opened in 2014 and has grown into one of the world's busiest international hubs. The airport now handles tens of millions of passengers a year and, in 2024, ranked among the world's ten busiest airports for international passengers while placing eighth for cargo.

DOH handled 54.36 million passengers in 2025.

• Passenger traffic rose 3.1% year-on-year from 2024.
• The airport handled 52.73 million passengers in 2024, after 45.92 million in 2023.
• Before the pandemic, annual passenger traffic reached 38.79 million in 2019, up from 34.5 million in 2018.

Note: No matching year-end 2020 passenger total was found in the reviewed sources, so only directly verified full-year figures are included. 2018 is from the Qatar Civil Aviation Authority (QCAA) annual open-data workbook, 2019 from the airport's year-end release, and later years from the relevant official year-end releases and annual open-data tables.

What were Hamad International Airport's passenger numbers in 2025?

DOH handled 54.36 million passengers in 2025.

• Point-to-point passenger volumes to and from Doha reached 13.5 million in 2025, a 5.4% year-on-year increase.
• The third quarter was the busiest of the year, welcoming a record 14.3 million passengers from July to September 2025.
• August 2025 became the busiest month in the airport's history, serving 5.02 million passengers, including 1.3 million point-to-point travellers.

Note: The exact annual and monthly totals come from the 2025 QCAA open-data series, while the point-to-point and quarterly highlights come from the airport's 2025 passenger traffic releases.

What were Hamad International Airport's passenger numbers in 2024?

DOH handled 52.73 million passengers in 2024.

• Point-to-point passenger traffic exceeded 12 million in 2024, or about 23% of total traffic.
• Point-to-point passenger traffic grew 16% in 2024, outpacing transfer traffic for the first time.
• July 2024 was the busiest month on record at that point with 4.74 million passengers, followed by August at 4.72 million.

Note: The exact July and August totals mentioned comes from the annual 2024 open-data series, while the point-to-point figures come from the airport's year-end 2024 release.

DOH recorded 282,975 aircraft movements in 2025.

• That was 1.2% higher than 2024.
• Aircraft movements totaled 279,705 in 2024 and 252,059 in 2023.
• Earlier published year-end totals show 217,875 in 2022, 169,909 in 2021, and 232,917 in 2019.

Note: The table combines airport year-end releases for 2019, 2021, and 2023 with QCAA annual open-data totals for 2022, 2024, and 2025.

August 2025 was the busiest month on record, with 5.02 million passengers.

• Passenger traffic stayed above 4 million travellers in every month of 2025.
• The busiest stretch of the year came in the second half, with July, August, October, November, and December all exceeding 4.5 million passengers.
• Q3 2025 was the airport's busiest quarter on record, serving over 14.3 million passengers from July to September.
• August 2025 exceeded the previous monthly peak of July 2024 by 5.8%, rising from 4,742,196 to 5,017,793 passengers.

Note: The monthly totals come from the annual 2025 QCAA open-data series, while the Q3 and August peak comparison are supported by the airport's 2025 traffic releases and the official 2024 QCAA annual series.

The latest published group result is QAR 7.85 billion in net profit for FY2025.

• The prior published group net profit was QAR 6.1 billion in FY2024.
• The published group net profit for FY2023 was QAR 4.4 billion.
• These are group-level results rather than a standalone airport revenue line.

Note: These are fiscal-year Qatar Airways Group net profit figures and are included here because the cited official materials do not publish a standalone Hamad International Airport revenue line.

Concourses D and E opened in March 2025 and lifted annual passenger capacity to over 65 million.

• Phase B added 17 aircraft contact gates, taking the total to 62.
• The terminal expanded to 845,000 square metres, representing a 14% increase.
• Phase A was unveiled in November 2022 and lifted capacity to over 58 million passengers annually.