OAK Airport: 82.0% on time, worst at 9 PM

OAK right now

Live conditions where a permitted source publishes them, and the historical record where none does.

No disruption reported

Aviation weather is not currently a factor.

Aviation weatherVFR

60°F · wind 5 kt

Minimal operational impact. Conditions are not a notable factor for operations right now.

Updated 07:53 UTC

Forecast issued 05:20Z.

Updated 05:20 UTC

Aircraft seen now

On the field2

Airborne within 15 NM1

Departed in the last hour1

Arrived in the last hour0

Below 10,000 ft, so aircraft overflying at cruise are not counted. These are observations, not an operational status: a count is a floor, since receiver coverage varies and a movement between two samples can be missed.

Updated 08:39 UTC

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FlyerIntel shows live values only where a permitted source provides them. Sections without data are left empty rather than estimated.

Airport reliability

Departures from OAK, July 2023 – July 2026.

Airport Reliability Score

79/ 100Strong

Better than 95% of major US airports covered by FlyerIntel (64 compared)

Calculated from 117,264 flights. How this is calculated

Departures arriving on time

82.0%

95,374 of 116,304 completed

Cancellation rate

0.68%

796 cancelled

Median arrival delay

-6 min

Average 2.8 min

Severe delays

4.5%

Arrived 60+ minutes late

Delay when late

51 min

Average, when 15+ min late

Departures analyzed

117,264

117,211 arrivals

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026

What stands out

How this airport compares to others like it, not just to itself.

Airline drives an unusually large share of cancellations at this airport, a bigger share than 94% of 61 comparable airports.

Airline accounts for 54.0% of coded cancellations at this airport, against 25.7% across every covered airport.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · Ranked against every other airport with the same kind of figure and at least 61 in the comparison.

Why flights are cancelled at OAK

Every cancellation carries a reason code filed by the airline that operated the flight. Departures, July 2023 – July 2026.

The airline accounts for 54.4% of cancelled departures from OAK — about 1 in every 271 scheduled departures. That is 29 points higher than the 25.8% recorded across every airport FlyerIntel covers.

Share of cancellations

Airline54.4%

Weather35.8%

Air traffic9.8%

Security0.0%

Of 796 cancelled departures carrying a reason code.

What each reason means

The airline1 in 271

Crew, maintenance, aircraft cleaning, baggage or fueling: what BTS counts as within the carrier’s own control.

433 cancellations, 54.4% of the total.

Extreme weather1 in 411

Conditions the carrier judged severe enough to stop the flight: a blizzard, a hurricane, a line of thunderstorms.

285 cancellations, 35.8% of the total.

The air traffic system1 in 1,503

Airport capacity, air traffic control flow programs, heavy traffic and ordinary bad weather. A system decision, not the airline’s.

78 cancellations, 9.8% of the total.

Security—

A terminal evacuation, a security breach, screening equipment failure, or screening queues over 29 minutes.

0 cancellations, 0.0% of the total.

796 of 117,264 scheduled departures from OAK were cancelled. Ordinary bad weather is filed under air traffic, so weather’s full share is larger than its bar.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026 · Reason codes are each airline’s own filing, not an independent finding of fault. Shown for airports with at least 500 coded cancellations; 796 were recorded at OAK.

Why flights run late at OAK

Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on departures from OAK.

Late-arriving aircraft46.8%

the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late

The airline35.4%

crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control

Air traffic control16.1%

airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control

Weather1.4%

weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically

Security0.3%

screening or terminal security incidents

Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for departures from OAK. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.

Of the 22,498 departures from OAK that left 15 or more minutes late and have a known inbound aircraft, 56% followed a flight that landed 15 or more minutes late. The other 44% left late even though the aircraft had come in on time or early. Across the 64 covered airports that share runs from 47% to 73%, with a median of 62%; OAK’s is the 20th lowest.

The late flight is the one the same aircraft flew into OAK just before, found from the tail number in the DOT file. Airlines and hours differ from one airport to the next, so this describes the departures from OAK and does not rate the airport.

An airport is only partly the author of its own delays. Late-arriving aircraft describes the national schedule arriving here more than anything about this airfield. Air traffic control covers airspace and airport capacity, which is where a congested airport shows up; only the airline category sits squarely inside the carriers’ own operation. How differently they run it is further down this page.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026

What weather costs at OAK

Departures from OAK by the weather at the airport in the hour they were scheduled to leave, July 2023 – July 2026.

8.8% of scheduled departures from OAK left in an hour of bad weather. 1.0% of them were cancelled, against 0.6% in normal conditions, and 82.0% of the ones that flew arrived on time, against 81.4%. Those hours held 13% of all cancelled departures. That is about 37 more cancellations than the normal-conditions rate would give.

Cancellations were highest in LIFR hours: 2.0% of 716 departures, 3.0 times the normal rate.

Airlines filed 36% of OAK’s coded cancellations under extreme weather. By the weather at the airport in the scheduled hour, 13% of cancelled departures were in bad-weather hours. A code is the airline’s stated reason and an hour’s weather is what the airport reported, so the two need not match.

By weather

Scheduled departures, July 2023 – July 2026

Cancellation and on-time rates at OAK by the weather at the airport in the scheduled departure hour
Weather at the airport	Departures	Cancelled	Left on time	Arrived on time	Avg. departure delay
Normal conditionsVFR with no thunderstorm, snow or ice, fog, heavy rain or high wind	88,93575.9% of all	0.6%	78.5%	81.4%	9.5 min
Any bad weatherIFR or LIFR, or a thunderstorm, snow or ice, fog, heavy rain or high wind	10,3668.8% of all	1.0%1.5 times normal	79.9%	82.0%	9.8 min
MVFRceiling 1,000 to 3,000 feet or visibility 3 to 5 miles	18,37615.7% of all	0.7%	82.4%	84.6%3.2 points above normal	7.7 min
IFRceiling 500 to 999 feet or visibility 1 to under 3 miles	7,2586.2% of all	0.8%	82.6%	84.4%3.0 points above normal	8.1 min
LIFRceiling under 500 feet or visibility under 1 mile	7160.6% of all	2.0%3.0 times normal	85.0%	81.1%	10.2 min
Fogfog or freezing fog reported at the airport	3750.3% of all	3.5%5.4 times normal	84.3%	76.7%4.7 points below normal	13.3 min
Heavy rainheavy rain reported at the airport	3510.3% of all	1.7%2.6 times normal	71.0%	73.6%7.8 points below normal	17.9 min
High windwind of 25 knots or more, or gusts of 30 knots or more	2,4822.1% of all	1.5%2.2 times normal	69.3%	74.3%7.1 points below normal	15.3 min
Low ceilinga broken or overcast layer under 1,000 feet	7,0496.0% of all	0.8%	84.3%	85.3%3.9 points above normal	7.5 min
Low visibilityvisibility under 3 miles	1,5631.3% of all	2.0%3.2 times normal	74.3%	75.1%6.3 points below normal	15.1 min

A departure is counted in every row its hour fits, so the rows overlap and do not add up. Left on time is a departure under 15 minutes late, and arrived on time an arrival under 15 minutes late; cancelled is the share of scheduled departures. Rows with fewer than 120 departures are not scored. Too few departures to score: thunderstorm (9).

This is the weather reported at OAK in the hour a flight was scheduled to leave. It leaves out the weather at the destination and on the way, weather that arrived after the scheduled time, and anything else that goes wrong in a bad hour. An hour takes the worst conditions any report in it gave. Weather was matched to 99.9% of the airport’s scheduled departures; the rest left in hours with no report, or at a scheduled time the flight records cannot place exactly. Bad-weather hours are compared with normal hours at the same airport, not with what the same flights would have done in a clear sky: they also fall more often in some seasons and at some times of day.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS flight records and Iowa Environmental Mesonet weather reports · July 2023 – July 2026 · Where the weather comes from, and its limits. All covered airports side by side: What Weather Costs Each Airport.

Turning aircraft around at OAK

Time on the ground between one flight and the next of the same aircraft at OAK, and what a late arrival does to the next departure, July 2023 – July 2026.

The median turn at OAK is scheduled for 45 minutes on the ground and takes 55 minutes, against 56 minutes and 63 minutes across all airports. Aircraft are given less time on the ground here than at the typical airport. The typical turn runs 10 minutes over its schedule, more than the 7 minutes it does across all airports. 16.4% of turns here began with an aircraft that landed 15 or more minutes late, below the 18.9% for all airports.

When the aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late (14,752 turns here, 47 minutes late on average), 53% of the turns were finished in no more than the scheduled ground time, against 68% across all airports. 83% of those flights left 15 or more minutes late, against 72%. After an aircraft that landed on time, 12% did (all airports 11%).

Given the turn lengths scheduled here, the network’s rates would give 58% finished in the schedule and 81% leaving late. OAK finishes fewer late turns in the schedule than the network would, but lateness is passed on about as often. 41% of its late-inbound turns had a scheduled turn of 45 to 59 minutes, against 31% across all airports.

Turns at OAK against all airports

89,851 turns, July 2023 – July 2026

Aircraft turns at OAK against all airports: scheduled and actual time on the ground and what a late inbound aircraft does
Measure	OAK	All airports	All airports, same turn lengths
Median scheduled turn	45 min	56 min	—
Median actual turn	55 min	63 min	—
Turns that began with an aircraft 15+ minutes late	16%	19%	—
Late turns finished within the schedule	53%	68%	58%
Late inbound that left 15+ minutes late	83%	72%	81%
On-time inbound that left 15+ minutes late	12%	11%	—

The last column is the network’s rate at the turn lengths scheduled at OAK, band by band from under 30 minutes to 3 to 6 hours. A turn finishes within the schedule when the aircraft spent no more time on the ground than the schedule gave it.

A turn pairs an aircraft’s landing at OAK with its next departure from it by tail number; the aircraft is never named. These 89,851 turns are 77% of the flights that left OAK in the period; the rest are an aircraft’s first flight after a long stay, flights without a usable inbound, and cancelled flights. Ground time runs from the gate. Turns under 30 minutes are kept, but most leave late even after an on-time landing. Airlines set their own turn schedules, so this describes the airlines that fly at OAK and does not rate the airport.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS flight records · July 2023 – July 2026 · Airports side by side: Where a Late Aircraft Gets Its Time Back.

What sets OAK apart

Where OAK’s hours, months, airlines and taxi time differ most from the other airports, July 2023 – July 2026.

Flights scheduled to leave OAK at 6 PM arrive on time 76.2% of the time, 7 points better than the 69.2% for that hour at the other airports.

9 PM is where OAK falls furthest behind the rest: 63.6% of its 9 PM departures arrive on time, 7.7 points below the 71.3% for that hour elsewhere.

January treats OAK better than it treats the rest of the country: 86.3% on time against 78.7% elsewhere, 7.6 points ahead.

Delta Air Lines does better out of OAK than anywhere else it flies: 93.3% on time here, 82.1% on its other departures, 11.2 points apart.

Taxi-out at OAK averages 12.7 minutes, 6.0 minutes less than the 18.7 minutes elsewhere.

OAK against the other airports

July 2023 – July 2026

Where OAK differs most from the other covered airports, with the flights behind each figure
Measure	OAK	Elsewhere	Gap	Flights behind it
Hour: 6 PM departures	76.2%	69.2%	+7.0 pts	7,402 here, 1,049,695 elsewhere
Hour: 9 PM departures	63.6%	71.3%	−7.7 pts	2,283 here, 682,028 elsewhere
Month: January	86.3%	78.7%	+7.6 pts	8,699 here, 1,281,092 elsewhere
Airline: Delta Air Lines	93.3%	82.1%	+11.2 pts	1,002 here, 3,101,123 elsewhere
Taxi-out: Departures	12.7 min	18.7 min	−6.0 min	116,491 here, 17,513,618 elsewhere

"Elsewhere" is every other covered airport together, taken from the same aggregates as this page with OAK’s own flights removed (for airlines, that airline’s flights from all its other airports). Hours, months and airlines appear only where both sides have at least 120 completed flights (airlines 500) and the gap is at least 2 points and 2 standard errors; only the largest gap in each direction is shown. The taxi figure is weighted by departures and has no error estimate, so it appears from 2 minutes.

Best time to fly from OAK

On-time arrival rate by scheduled local departure time: each weekday and hour, and averaged over the week.

Flights departing 5–9 AM arrived on time 92.5% of the time, against 66.0% for 9 PM–5 AM departures — a gap of 26.5 percentage points.

By day and hour

On-time arrival rate for each weekday and scheduled departure hour, in local time.

Sunday 5–6 AM was the most reliable slot at OAK (96.1% on time, 868 flights) and Sunday 9–10 PM the least (61.0%, 574 flights).

Hour of departure matters more than day of the week: hourly averages sit a typical 8.6 points from the airport-wide rate, weekday averages 3.4 points.

On-time arrival rate at OAK by weekday and scheduled departure hour, local time. Each button reads out one slot.
Hour	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
5 AM–6 AM
6 AM–7 AM
7 AM–8 AM
8 AM–9 AM
9 AM–10 AM
10 AM–11 AM
11 AM–12 PM
12 PM–1 PM
1 PM–2 PM
2 PM–3 PM
3 PM–4 PM
4 PM–5 PM
5 PM–6 PM
6 PM–7 PM
7 PM–8 PM
8 PM–9 PM
9 PM–10 PM
10 PM–11 PM

On-time rate, % · stronger color, fewer on time

50–59
60–69
70–79
80–89
90–99

Fewer than 120 flights, not scored
Most reliable slot
Least reliable slot

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · On time is arrival within 15 minutes of schedule. Cells round to whole percentages; the table shows one decimal.

Best and worst slots are named only among slots with 500+ flights, and only when the gap is larger than sampling error. Departures after 11 PM (165 flights) are not drawn: no slot in those hours has enough flights to score.

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On-time arrival rate (%) with flights beneath, by scheduled departure hour and weekday at OAK. A dash means fewer than 120 flights, which are not scored.
Hour	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
5 AM–6 AM	93.5% on time1,071 flights	93.9% on time744 flights	93.9% on time738 flights	94.6% on time1,088 flights	94.5% on time1,117 flights	93.9% on time807 flights	96.1% on time868 flights
6 AM–7 AM	93.9% on time1,609 flights	95.0% on time1,382 flights	95.0% on time1,358 flights	94.5% on time1,579 flights	94.8% on time1,578 flights	94.4% on time1,295 flights	95.3% on time1,485 flights
7 AM–8 AM	91.1% on time1,005 flights	93.4% on time1,114 flights	93.5% on time1,102 flights	93.3% on time978 flights	92.3% on time993 flights	92.3% on time1,161 flights	92.7% on time1,098 flights
8 AM–9 AM	87.4% on time1,265 flights	90.3% on time1,173 flights	88.4% on time1,190 flights	88.7% on time1,265 flights	86.5% on time1,286 flights	87.4% on time945 flights	88.2% on time1,188 flights
9 AM–10 AM	88.0% on time1,319 flights	91.0% on time1,406 flights	89.2% on time1,414 flights	88.9% on time1,302 flights	87.7% on time1,294 flights	90.2% on time1,086 flights	88.4% on time1,203 flights
10 AM–11 AM	84.4% on time961 flights	89.3% on time796 flights	89.4% on time819 flights	85.2% on time942 flights	82.2% on time975 flights	86.8% on time753 flights	85.3% on time898 flights
11 AM–12 PM	81.4% on time978 flights	86.9% on time863 flights	85.1% on time865 flights	85.1% on time930 flights	82.1% on time989 flights	86.5% on time678 flights	82.8% on time964 flights
12 PM–1 PM	81.3% on time1,035 flights	87.0% on time981 flights	85.9% on time1,004 flights	81.4% on time1,019 flights	78.3% on time1,027 flights	83.2% on time794 flights	81.0% on time965 flights
1 PM–2 PM	80.3% on time1,105 flights	86.0% on time1,017 flights	86.0% on time1,025 flights	79.4% on time1,093 flights	74.3% on time1,116 flights	82.4% on time856 flights	78.4% on time966 flights
2 PM–3 PM	71.1% on time883 flights	82.7% on time777 flights	76.8% on time768 flights	72.8% on time904 flights	68.7% on time904 flights	83.3% on time669 flights	73.6% on time847 flights
3 PM–4 PM	72.3% on time896 flights	80.7% on time778 flights	79.8% on time784 flights	72.7% on time876 flights	64.7% on time903 flights	80.3% on time549 flights	71.7% on time808 flights
4 PM–5 PM	72.8% on time838 flights	80.4% on time739 flights	77.4% on time738 flights	68.8% on time801 flights	65.3% on time843 flights	83.3% on time542 flights	69.7% on time834 flights
5 PM–6 PM	77.3% on time1,052 flights	84.1% on time870 flights	80.4% on time869 flights	68.9% on time1,050 flights	69.0% on time1,056 flights	79.3% on time789 flights	66.7% on time1,022 flights
6 PM–7 PM	75.4% on time1,146 flights	86.9% on time1,152 flights	82.7% on time1,210 flights	66.7% on time1,047 flights	68.4% on time1,094 flights	81.7% on time859 flights	70.4% on time941 flights
7 PM–8 PM	73.2% on time1,136 flights	79.0% on time913 flights	76.4% on time908 flights	67.3% on time1,114 flights	70.3% on time1,118 flights	77.9% on time907 flights	65.7% on time1,124 flights
8 PM–9 PM	70.7% on time1,373 flights	82.3% on time1,026 flights	79.1% on time1,013 flights	62.1% on time1,360 flights	65.0% on time1,412 flights	77.8% on time569 flights	67.1% on time1,358 flights
9 PM–10 PM	68.4% on time376 flights	73.7% on time228 flights	68.1% on time230 flights	52.5% on time345 flights	58.2% on time391 flights	77.8% on time163 flights	61.0% on time574 flights
10 PM–11 PM	117 flights, too few to score	45 flights, too few to score	47 flights, too few to score	74.2% on time121 flights	117 flights, too few to score	68 flights, too few to score	59.1% on time188 flights

By departure window

All days combined

5–9 AM92.5%

9 AM–12 PM86.7%

12–3 PM79.8%

3–6 PM74.0%

6–9 PM73.0%

9 PM–5 AM66.0%

By departure hour

All days combined

12 AM

3 AM

6 AM

9 AM

12 PM

3 PM

6 PM

9 PM

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · Buckets with fewer than 120 flights are not scored.

International arrivals

How long passport control normally takes here, hour by hour and hall by hall. This is the arrivals queue, not departure security — and it is history, not a live wait.

At Main, OAK’s busiest hall, both passport queues run much the same: a typical 10 min on a US passport and 12 min on any other, rising to 25 min on a busy day. Where the two halls agree like this, CBP’s combined figure of 11 min is a fair summary of both — which is not true everywhere, and is why they are shown apart.

Terminal by terminal, across the day

Terminal by terminal, across the day
Terminal	US passports	US busy day	Other passports	Other busy day	Global Entry
Main	10 min	23 min	12 min	25 min	3.0% of arrivals

US passports — Main

12 AM

3 AM

6 AM

9 AM

12 PM

3 PM

6 PM

9 PM

US citizens and lawful permanent residents, who use the US-passport lanes.

All other passports — Main

12 AM

3 AM

6 AM

9 AM

12 PM

3 PM

6 PM

9 PM

Every other arriving passenger, including visa and visa-waiver travelers.

Hour by hour — Main

Hour by hour — Main
Cleared in hour	US passports	US busy day	Other passports	Other busy day	Booths open
10 AM–11 AM	15 min	28 min	16 min	30 min	4
11 AM–12 PM	9 min	20 min	11 min	22 min	4
12 PM–1 PM	9 min	19 min	11 min	23 min	4
1 PM–2 PM	9 min	16 min	9 min	18 min	4
3 PM–4 PM	7 min	14 min	9 min	15 min	5
4 PM–5 PM	8 min	15 min	10 min	16 min	5
5 PM–6 PM	7 min	12 min	8 min	13 min	5
6 PM–7 PM	9 min	17 min	10 min	19 min	5
7 PM–8 PM	8 min	16 min	10 min	19 min	4
8 PM–9 PM	12 min	21 min	13 min	22 min	4
9 PM–10 PM	14 min	28 min	16 min	31 min	4
10 PM–11 PM	15 min	39 min	15 min	41 min	4

US passports: clearing in the 10 AM–11 AM hour typically takes 15 min, against 7 min in the 3 PM–4 PM hour — 8 min between the slowest and fastest of 12 measured hours.

All other passports: clearing in the 10 AM–11 AM hour typically takes 16 min, against 8 min in the 5 PM–6 PM hour — 8 min between the slowest and fastest of 12 measured hours.

The hour is when CBP processed the passenger, not when the aircraft landed — allow for the walk from the gate. Hours with fewer than 120 days of records are not listed rather than shown as an estimate, which is why a terminal’s quietest hours are usually absent. “Busy day” is the 90th percentile: one arrival in ten is worse than that. Booths are how many CBP had open, and they follow the queue rather than prevent it — the busiest hours are staffed hardest and are still the slowest.

Source: US Customs and Border Protection · 2024-08-28 to 2026-10-16 · These are CBP passport control waits for arriving international passengers — a different queue from TSA departure screening. CBP publishes them about two days in arrears, so every figure here describes what has been typical over 2024-08-28 to 2026-10-16, and none of it is a live queue or a forecast for your flight. US and non-US passengers are reported separately by CBP and are kept separate here, because they are separate halls. FlyerIntel publishes a terminal or an hour only where CBP filed at least 120 hourly records for it, and an hour-by-hour breakdown only where at least 6 hours clear that floor.

What to expect at OAK

How busy the airport is through the day, from scheduled departure volume.

Departures a day

104

Average across the analysis period

Busiest hour

6 AM

About 9 departures

Typical taxi-out

12.7 min

Pushback to wheels-up, on departure

Typical taxi-in

5.8 min

Touchdown to gate, on arrival

Scheduled departures by hour

12 AM

3 AM

6 AM

9 AM

12 PM

3 PM

6 PM

9 PM

The busiest hour is 6 AM, with about 9 departures a day, against roughly 2 at 9 PM. That peak is also more punctual than a typical hour here: early banks fly aircraft that spent the night on the ground rather than ones inheriting the day’s delays.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · Taxi-out runs from gate to wheels-up, averaged over departures and weighted by hour. Taxi-in runs from touchdown to gate.

Weekly and seasonal patterns

By day of week

Mon81.1%

Tue87.1%

Wed85.3%

Thu79.3%

Fri78.0%

Sat85.8%

Sun79.2%

Tuesday is historically the most reliable day and Friday the least, a gap of 9.1 percentage points.

By month

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

June is historically the weakest month and November the strongest, a spread of 10.2 percentage points.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026

Airlines at OAK

Departure performance by operating carrier. Regional flights are reported by the carrier that operated them, not by the mainline brand.

Airlines at OAK
Carrier	Departures	On time	Cancelled	Median delay
Southwest Airlines WN	100,569	81.4%	0.58%	-5 min
Spirit Airlines NK	5,408	82.0%	1.44%	-8 min
SkyWest Airlines OO	4,425	89.3%	0.27%	-10 min
Alaska Airlines AS	2,804	85.4%	1.36%	-8 min
Hawaiian Airlines HA	2,504	86.6%	3.15%	-7 min
Delta Air Lines DL	1,011	93.3%	0.79%	-15 min
Allegiant Air G4	543	81.3%	0.37%	-4 min

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · Carriers with fewer than 500 departures are not listed.

Routes from OAK

Ranked by FlyerIntel Route Reliability Score.

Most reliable

LASLas Vegas71 SANSan Diego64

Least reliable

SANSan Diego64 LASLas Vegas71

Busiest routes

Busiest routes from OAK
Destination	Flights	On time	Score
OAK → LAS Las Vegas	13,003	78.6%	71
OAK → SAN San Diego	10,555	74.6%	64

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · Only routes with at least 10,000 flights are ranked.

See all 4 routes to and from OAK →

Reliability over time

On-time arrival rate for departures, by month.

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25

26

Over the most recent 12 months (2025-08 to 2026-07), departures from OAK arrived on time 79.1% of the time, against 85.0% in the 12 months before — declining by 5.9 percentage points.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026

Data and sources

Historical statistics

Every historical figure on this page is calculated by FlyerIntel from US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics on-time performance records covering July 2023 – July 2026, comprising 117,264 departures from OAK. A flight counts as delayed when it arrives 15 or more minutes after schedule.

Full methodology · All data sources

Analysis last recomputed September 26, 2026

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Latest observation for OAK: METAR KOAK 180753Z 30005KT 10SM CLR 16/14 A2998 RMK AO2 SLP151 T01560139 402940106 (issued 07:53 UTC).