Holiday travel
Holiday travel at SFO
San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, CA. July 2023 – July 2026. Set against SFO’s own ordinary days of the same weekday in the weeks around each holiday.
The five holidays at SFO
At SFO, Christmas to New Year’s ran furthest below ordinary days (−7.9 points) and Thanksgiving furthest above (+5.9 points).
Each row pools every year of that holiday’s window at SFO and sets it against SFO’s own ordinary days of the same weekdays in the weeks around it. Open a holiday for its day-by-day figures.
| Holiday | On time | Gap from usual, points | Cancelled | Worst day | Best day | All airports, gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thanksgiving3 times in the data | 85.7%usual 79.8% | +5.9betteryears: 3 better | 0.38%usual 0.99% | Sunday after (two of three) | Thanksgiving Day (three of three) | −2.1worse |
| Christmas to New Year’s3 times in the data | 73.6%usual 81.5% | −7.9worseyears: 3 worse | 0.83%usual 1.58% | December 26 (two of three) | Moved each year | −3.2worse |
| July 44 times in the data | 79.1%usual 73.5% | +5.6betteryears: 3 better, 1 about the same | 0.86%usual 1.20% | July 1 (two of four) | July 4 (three of four) | +5.2better |
| Memorial Day3 times in the data | 77.5%usual 74.9% | +2.6betteryears: 1 better, 2 about the same | 0.40%usual 0.60% | Memorial Day (two of three) | Saturday before (two of three) | −0.3about the same |
| Labor Day3 times in the data | 85.4%usual 80.7% | +4.7betteryears: 3 better | 0.27%usual 0.67% | Moved each year | Sunday before (two of three) | +4.2better |
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.