Adsorption isotherms of acetaldehyde, propionaldehyde, and butyraldehyde on Davison silica gel were determined gravimetrically at three temperatures. The isoteric heat of adsorption initially increased at low loading and then decreased monotonically with an increase in loading. The equilibrium adsorption data were successfully correlated by Polanyi's potential theory. The equilibrium data were also correlated with the Langmuir, BET, Freundlich, and the Hines et al. models. The Freundlich and the Hines et al. models provided the best fit to the data, while the BET equation was found to be applicable only for a relative pressure range of 0.05 to 0.2. The monolayer surface coverages of silica gel by all of the aldehydes estimated by the Langmuir equation were found to be consistently higher than those calculated from the BET equation, except for acetaldehyde at 306.5 K.