Holiday travel
Holiday travel at SMF
Sacramento International Airport, Sacramento, CA. July 2023 – July 2026. Set against SMF’s own ordinary days of the same weekday in the weeks around each holiday.
The five holidays at SMF
At SMF, Christmas to New Year’s ran furthest below ordinary days (−5.3 points) and Memorial Day furthest above (+4.8 points).
Each row pools every year of that holiday’s window at SMF and sets it against SMF’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 | 84.6%usual 84.6% | 0.0about the sameyears: 1 better, 1 about the same, 1 worse | 0.27%usual 0.78% | Sunday after (two of three) | Friday after (three of three) | −2.1worse |
| Christmas to New Year’s3 times in the data | 79.6%usual 84.9% | −5.3worseyears: 1 better, 2 worse | 0.73%usual 0.84% | Moved each year | Moved each year | −3.2worse |
| July 44 times in the data | 81.9%usual 78.5% | +3.4betteryears: 3 better, 1 about the same | 0.76%usual 0.85% | Moved each year | July 4 (three of four) | +5.2better |
| Memorial Day3 times in the data | 85.3%usual 80.5% | +4.8betteryears: 2 better, 1 about the same | 0.38%usual 0.42% | Memorial Day (two of two) | Moved each year | −0.3about the same |
| Labor Day3 times in the data | 86.6%usual 84.1% | +2.5betteryears: 2 better, 1 about the same | 0.39%usual 0.94% | Moved each year | Sunday before (two of two) | +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.