Malaga airport, the fastest growing in Spain in terms of German arrivals

For the first time in 2025, the Malaga airport has received more than one million passengers from Germany. This milestone was achieved after a 2.7% increase in traveler volume compared to 2024 and surpassing the 2019 figures by nearly 29%.

According to the report by Turismo Costa del Sol, these figures give the Costa del Sol destination a 6.8% share of the total arrivals to Spain from Germany and place it as the best-performing destination in the country since 2019. They recall that the national average increase was 2.3%. Andalusia also ranks well above the average growth, with an increase of 15.1%.

The data shows that about three out of every four passengers from Germany arriving at airports in Andalusia did so through Malaga's facilities, which are connected by direct flights to fourteen German cities. Four of these are key for the Malaga destination because six out of ten passengers arrived from these cities: Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Berlin, and Munich.

Considering the ratio of 30,000 arrivals, Memmingen leads the ranking growing above the average of the German market by doubling the figures from 2019 (131%), followed by Cologne, with a growth of 192.7%, and Karlsruhe/Baden Baden with (99.6%). On the other hand, Frankfurt, which is the second most important source city, shows signs of stagnation in its growth not exceeding the figure from 2019 (-4.2%).

Malaga airport is ranked fifth in the ranking of Spanish provinces with the highest number of passengers from Germany, surpassed by the island provinces, Balearic Islands and Las Palmas, Barcelona, and Madrid.