Traffic in Mexico is heavily concentrated: Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX) alone handles about 46.3 million passengers a year, roughly 59% of the 79 million across the 3 airports listed here. That pattern is typical of a country with one dominant hub carrier feeding a single gateway.
Between them these airports operate 7 runways serving 2 cities, and the country spans 2 time zones, so a domestic flight here can change your watch. The highest field is Felipe Ángeles International Airport at 7,369 ft, where thinner air lengthens the takeoff run. Every airport below links to a live map of aircraft observed within available ADS-B coverage around the field.
The next airport in the ranking is Cancún International Airport (CUN) at about 32.7 million passengers. The gap to MEX is 13.6 million, while the three busiest airports account for roughly 100% of traffic represented by this list. Most listed traffic is therefore concentrated at the top of the network.
The airports are spread across roughly 2 degrees of latitude and 12 degrees of longitude. The network is geographically compact enough that most domestic sectors remain comparatively short. Field elevations span 7,349 ft, so crews can move between very different takeoff-performance conditions. The average across this selected set is 2.3 runways per airport.
Read airport by airport, the selected Mexico network is not interchangeable: Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX) has 2 runways and about 46.3 million annual passengers, Cancún International Airport (CUN) has 2 runways and about 32.7 million annual passengers and Felipe Ángeles International Airport (NLU) has 3 runways and no comparable traffic figure. Those differences matter when comparing a live map. A larger passenger total indicates schedule scale, while runway count describes physical layout; neither number by itself proves how delayed, connected or operationally efficient an airport will be on a particular day.
With 3 gateways in this data cut, the Mexico hierarchy is readable directly: MEX contributes 59% of the represented passenger total, CUN contributes 41% of the represented passenger total and NLU contributes 0% of the represented passenger total. That makes MEX the first gateway here without reducing CUN to a minor field, since its traffic is about 71% of MEX's.
The physical ranking differs from the traffic ranking: NLU has 3 listed runways, MEX has 2 listed runways and CUN has 2 listed runways. NLU is the highest of the group at 7,369 ft, against 20 ft at CUN. Those facts describe layout and setting, not a live capacity forecast; weather, active runway configuration and traffic flow still decide what a viewer sees on the map at a given hour.