Holiday travel
July 4 at SBA
Santa Barbara Municipal Airport, Santa Barbara, CA. July 2023 – July 2026. Set against SBA’s own ordinary days of the same weekday in the weeks around each holiday.
The window, year by year
The window runs July 1 through July 5, around July 4, whatever weekday it falls on. In the data: Jul 1–5, 2023; Jul 1–5, 2024; Jul 1–5, 2025; Jul 1–5, 2026. July 4 fell on a Tuesday in 2023, Thursday in 2024, Friday in 2025, and Saturday in 2026. Four windows are in the data: enough to see whether a day repeats, not enough to call it a rule.
| Year | Departures | On time | Usual | Gap, points | Cancelled | Usual |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023Jul 1–5, 2023 | 93 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2024Jul 1–5, 2024 | 117 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2025Jul 1–5, 2025 | 115 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2026Jul 1–5, 2026 | 113 | — | — | — | — | — |
| All years4 windows | 438 | 83.5% | 79.3% | +4.2better | 1.83% | 1.46% |
Day by day
No single day has enough flights to print a rate here, so there is no chart. The table below still lists every day, with dashes where the flights are too few.
| Day | Departures against an ordinary day | On time | Usual | Gap, points | Cancelled | Each year: 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28Fri, Sat, Sun · outside the window | — | — | — | — | — | — · — · — · — |
| Jun 29Sat, Sun, Mon · outside the window | — | — | — | — | — | — · — · — · — |
| Jun 30Sun, Mon, Tue · outside the window | — | — | — | — | — | — · — · — · — |
| Jul 1Sat, Mon, Tue, Wed | — | — | — | — | — | — · — · — · — |
| Jul 2Sun, Tue, Wed, Thu | — | — | — | — | — | — · — · — · — |
| Jul 3Mon, Wed, Thu, Fri | — | — | — | — | — | — · — · — · — |
| July 4Tue, Thu, Fri, Sat | — | — | — | — | — | — · — · — · — |
| Jul 5Wed, Fri, Sat, Sun | — | — | — | — | — | — · — · — · — |
| Jul 6Thu, Sat, Sun, Mon · outside the window | — | — | — | — | — | — · — · — · — |
| Jul 7Fri, Sun, Mon, Tue · outside the window | — | — | — | — | — | — · — · — · — |
| Jul 8Sat, Mon, Tue, Wed · outside the window | — | — | — | — | — | — · — · — · — |
A dash means fewer than 120 flights stood behind the figure, or behind the ordinary days it would be compared with: too few to print a rate, and nothing is estimated in its place. “Usual” is what ordinary days of the same weekday had at the same place in the weeks around the holiday, weighted by the flights being compared.
Which departure times held up
The busiest days at SBA were Monday, Jul 3, 2023 (19 departures), Wednesday, Jul 5, 2023 (21 departures), Monday, Jul 1, 2024 (24 departures), Wednesday, Jul 3, 2024 (25 departures), Tuesday, Jul 1, 2025 (24 departures), Thursday, Jul 3, 2025 (26 departures), Wednesday, Jul 1, 2026 (24 departures), and Thursday, Jul 2, 2026 (25 departures).
SBA has too few flights in each departure window to compare them.
| Leaving | On time, whole window | Usual | Gap, points | On time, busiest days | Usual | Gap, points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5–9 AM | 90.6% | 88.2% | +2.4about the same | — | — | — |
| 9 AM–12 PM | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 12–3 PM | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 3–6 PM | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 6–9 PM | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 9 PM–5 AM | — | — | — | — | — | — |
SBA beside every covered airport
Storms and outages move whole regions at once. This puts SBA’s year beside the year of all covered airports together, each against its own usual, to show whether SBA did better or worse than the network.
| Year | SBA on time | SBA, gap from usual | All airports on time | All airports, gap from usual |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023Jul 1–5, 2023 | — | — | 73.9% | +2.9 |
| 2024Jul 1–5, 2024 | — | — | 82.2% | +11.7 |
| 2025Jul 1–5, 2025 | — | — | 73.5% | +2.3 |
| 2026Jul 1–5, 2026 | — | — | 73.1% | +3.2 |
For every holiday at once, see the five holidays at SBA, or the network view.