On-Time Report

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Airport month · June 2025

Sacramento International in June 2025

77.3%departed on time

BTS: A flight is counted as on time if it arrived less than 15 minutes after its scheduled time. Only carriers with at least 0.5 percent of domestic scheduled passenger revenue report.

In June 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 5,331 domestic departures from Sacramento International (SMF). 77.3% left less than 15 minutes late and 78.1% reached their destination on time; 0.5% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 71.4% of flights departed on time and 70.3% arrived on time, so SMF departures were 5.9 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in June 2024, the airport had 4,756 departures with 77.2% leaving on time: a change of +0.1 points, with flights up 12%.

Flights arriving at SMF that month were on time 75.5% of the time (5,332 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 49%, air carrier 34% and national aviation system 16%.

Every scheduled departure from SMF in June 2025, judged by arrival at the destination.

June 2025 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

MeasureJun 2025Jun 2024SMF, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Jun 2025
Departed on time77.3%77.2%80.0%71.4%
Arrived on time78.1%79.3%81.4%70.3%
Cancelled0.5%0.6%0.7%1.6%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)14.1 min14.7 min12.1 min22.1 min
Scheduled departures a day17815915420,386
Scheduled departures5,3314,75656,306611,575

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
WN Southwest Airlines2,91955%76.8%6.8 min0.5%
OO SkyWest Airlines91517%84.0%1.0 min0.1%
AA American Airlines3937%71.0%17.6 min1.8%
UA United Airlines3867%77.2%9.0 min0.3%
DL Delta Air Lines3507%91.1%-3.0 min0.6%
AS Alaska Airlines1202%60.0%18.7 min0.0%
HA Hawaiian Airlines902%84.4%7.5 min0.0%
NK Spirit Airlines671%73.1%8.4 min1.5%
B6 JetBlue Airways601%61.7%25.4 min0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines311%74.2%4.1 min9.7%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
SMF–LAXSacramento to Los Angeles48787.9%-1.4 min0.2%
SMF–LASSacramento to Las Vegas46876.3%6.9 min0.9%
SMF–SANSacramento to San Diego45071.3%9.6 min0.9%
SMF–SEASacramento to Seattle43072.3%9.5 min0.0%
SMF–DENSacramento to Denver36974.8%12.7 min0.0%
SMF–PHXSacramento to Phoenix31576.8%8.5 min0.0%
SMF–BURSacramento to Burbank23685.2%1.4 min2.1%
SMF–SNASacramento to Santa Ana20481.9%0.6 min1.5%
SMF–PDXSacramento to Portland19773.6%8.0 min0.0%
SMF–SLCSacramento to Salt Lake City19791.9%-0.6 min0.0%
SMF–ONTSacramento to Ontario17677.8%5.4 min0.6%
SMF–LGBSacramento to Long Beach16681.9%2.7 min0.6%

By scheduled departure hour

On-time share:under 62%6270768288% and over
Share of departures that left less than 15 minutes late, by scheduled hour (local time), June 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Jun 2025Minutes
Air carrier34.3%31.6%22,298
Late-arriving aircraft48.6%40.6%31,560
National Aviation System16.3%20.9%10,628
Extreme weather0.7%6.9%461
Security0.1%0.2%58
65,005 delay minutes on 1,119 flights that arrived 15 or more minutes late and carried a cause report. Carriers assign the categories; see what each category means.
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Questions and answers

How many flights left SMF on time in June 2025?

77.3% of 5,331 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 78.1% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 71.4% and 70.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In June 2024, 77.2% of 4,756 departures left on time and 0.6% were cancelled, against 77.3% and 0.5% in June 2025.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for June 2025; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights by reporting carriers, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for SMF · methodology · corrections.