Spain has five airports among the 100 best rated in the world, according to the AirHelp Score 2026, the international ranking compiled by the passenger rights consultancy AirHelp, which annually analyzes passenger experience at 279 airports in 76 countries.
Lanzarote airport is the worst rated among the large airports in the Canary Islands, with a score of 7.27 out of 10, ranking 12th nationally and 221st internationally.
The classification is based on three main criteria: flight punctuality, which accounts for 60% of the final score; service quality, with a weight of 20%; and airport comfort and facilities, which contribute the remaining 20%.
The best-ranked Canary Islands airport is Gran Canaria, which achieves the third best rating in the country with a score of 7.74 points and ranks 86th in the world.
Next is Fuerteventura, eighth best rated nationally and 152nd worldwide with a score of 7.5.
The airports of Tenerife Norte and Sur occupy ninth and tenth place nationally with 7.45 and 7.43 points respectively. In the world ranking, they occupy positions 173 and 180 each.
The best-rated airport in the country for another year is Bilbao, which leads the national classification with 8.08 and is ranked 21st globally, also being the 3rd best in Europe and the only Spanish airport among the top 25 in the world.
They are followed by Seville (35th place and a score of 7.97) and Gran Canaria (86th), both airports that have shown significant improvement compared to the previous year's edition. In the case of Seville, it climbs 33 positions, while Gran Canaria records one of the most notable advances in the ranking by climbing 52 places.
However, this evolution has not been the general trend for Spanish airports. Despite having 14 airports in the ranking, with the exception of Seville, Gran Canaria, and Ibiza, the rest of the Spanish airports reflect a deterioration in the performance of Spanish airports in a context marked by the growth of air traffic and the increase in travel demand worldwide, where punctuality, service quality, and passenger experience have become increasingly decisive factors.
Nevertheless, Valencia (89) and Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas (92), the main Spanish airport, manage to remain within the international Top 100.
To prepare the AirHelp Score 2026, AirHelp has analyzed operational data corresponding to the period between May 2025 and April 2026, supplemented with more than 14,000 passenger ratings from 76 countries.
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