Airport month record

BURJAN

Hollywood Burbank in January 2026

Departures: 2,141
Month: January 2026
National, same month: 79.2%
Carriers: 7

Historical statistics for January 2026, not live status or a forecast for this year’s January. For today’s conditions at BUR, see live FAA status.

BUR in January earns an A. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 9 points better than the national rate of 79.2%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 2,141 flights, with a median arrival 14 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, BUR's January record is 9 points better than the US average of 79.2%. That gap is worth roughly 88 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

88.0%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 2,112 completed departures

Avg delay

75 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.26%

Nationally in January: 4.71%

Whole year

81.6%

BUR across all twelve months

These figures cover 2,141 departures from Hollywood Burbank in January 2026. On time means an arrival less than 15 minutes after the scheduled gate time, the DOT's threshold, and the national comparison uses every US departure in the same month rather than the whole year.

Against the year

January next to BUR's other months

Against BUR's own year, January ran 6 points better than the twelve-month rate of 81.6%, which makes it the best of the twelve months in the data. Either side of it, December ran 81.2% on time and February 86.6%, so a trip moved by a few weeks would have landed in a worse stretch.

BUR month by month
Month	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
September 2025	2,496	85.5%	68 min	0.56%	A+
October 2025	2,624	79.0%	60 min	1.07%	B
November 2025	2,604	80.4%	77 min	2.00%	B
December 2025	2,623	81.2%	76 min	2.10%	B
January 2026 (this page)	2,141	88.0%	75 min	1.26%	A
February 2026	2,134	86.6%	74 min	2.06%	A
March 2026	2,556	85.4%	68 min	1.29%	A
April 2026	2,455	82.2%	53 min	0.69%	B+
May 2026	2,520	79.0%	65 min	1.07%	B
June 2026	2,535	76.9%	59 min	1.22%	B
July 2026	2,626	79.3%	64 min	1.07%	B
August 2026	2,602	78.1%	62 min	0.88%	B+

Departure window

The best time of day to leave BUR in January

Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 10 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.

5am–8am313 flights94.4%
8am–11am511 flights90.1%
11am–2pm472 flights86.8%
2pm–5pm408 flights85.8%
5pm–8pm341 flights84.1%
8pm–5am96 flights86.0%

Scale runs 75% to 100%.

Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 94.4% of the time, against 84.1% for the evening window. That is 10 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 511 flights scheduled in it.

Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 93.2% on time and Thursday the weakest at 84.7%, a spread of 9 points.

Carrier by carrier

Which airlines ran best at BUR in January

Only one carrier clears this site's 365-flight floor here, so there is no comparison to draw. The table below is the full picture.

Carriers at BUR in January 2026
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Southwest Airlines	1,206	92.0%	46 min	0.33%	A+
SkyWest Airlinesthin sample	352	78.2%	98 min	1.70%	B
United Airlinesthin sample	179	83.6%	86 min	1.12%	B
Alaska Airlinesthin sample	177	91.4%	98 min	1.69%	A
Spirit Airlinesthin sample	83	84.1%	95 min	1.20%	B
American Airlinesthin sample	62	76.4%	90 min	11.29%	B−
Delta Air Linesthin sample	62	87.9%	62 min	6.45%	A−

Route by route

Busiest routes out of BUR in January

Routes from BUR in January 2026
Route	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
BUR to LAS · Las Vegasthin sample	342	85.0%	64 min	0.29%	A+
BUR to PHX · Phoenixthin sample	241	89.2%	106 min	0.41%	A+
BUR to SFO · San Franciscothin sample	215	77.3%	100 min	1.86%	B
BUR to OAK · Oaklandthin sample	209	92.3%	35 min	0.00%	A+
BUR to SMF · Sacramentothin sample	187	94.6%	55 min	0.53%	A+
BUR to SJC · San Josethin sample	157	95.5%	47 min	0.64%	A+
BUR to DEN · Denverthin sample	154	94.1%	84 min	0.65%	A+
BUR to SEA · Seattlethin sample	110	88.9%	109 min	1.82%	A
BUR to SLC · Salt Lake Citythin sample	105	96.2%	103 min	0.95%	A+
BUR to PDX · Portlandthin sample	72	94.4%	56 min	1.39%	A
BUR to DFW · Dallas-Fort Worththin sample	62	76.4%	90 min	11.29%	B−
BUR to STS · Santa Rosathin sample	37	87.9%	52 min	5.41%	A−
BUR to DAL · Dallasthin sample	33	97.0%	73 min	0.00%	A+
BUR to PSC · Pascothin sample	31	67.7%	59 min	0.00%	C+
BUR to ATL · Atlantathin sample	31	82.1%	44 min	9.68%	B−
BUR to RDM · Redmondthin sample	31	54.8%	59 min	0.00%	F+

Delay causes

What held BUR up in January

Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 19,000 reported delay minutes.

Late-arriving aircraft
37%
Carrier
31%
National Airspace System
24%
Extreme weather
8%
Security
1%

37% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 19,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 5 to one. The split is drawn from 18,980 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations sit at 1.26% against a national 4.71%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.09%.

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.1% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 7.6% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.

What to do with this

Flying from BUR in January

For a January trip through BUR: this is one of the better months to be flying from here, 88.0% on time with 1.26% cancelled. That is a base rate for the month as a whole; a single storm can still spoil a particular day.

Where to go next

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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