Airport month record
CLEJUL
Cleveland Hopkins International in July 2025
- Departures
- 3,564
- Month
- July 2025
- National, same month
- 71.1%
- Carriers
- 12
Historical statistics for July 2025, not live status or a forecast for this year’s July. For today’s conditions at CLE, see live FAA status.
CLE in July carries a cancellation problem, not just a delay problem: 3.8% of scheduled flights never operate, against 2.5% nationally. Of the ones that do fly, close to three flights in four arrive on time, worth a B− overall. The punctuality figure counts only flights that actually departed, so it flatters an operation that cancels this often. That rests on 3,564 flights, of which United Airlines flew 795 at 80.9% on time.
United Airlines is the most reliable of the four carriers covered here at 80.9% on time across 795 flights.
Key figures
On time
75.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 3,413 completed departures
Avg delay
90 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.84%
Nationally in July: 2.45%
Whole year
79.6%
CLE across all twelve months
These figures cover 3,564 departures from Cleveland Hopkins International in July 2025. 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
July next to CLE's other months
Against CLE's own year, July ran 4 points worse than the twelve-month rate of 79.6%, which makes it number ten of twelve months, best first. Cancellations are where July stands out: 3.84% of scheduled departures were called off, 1.7 times the airport's rate across the year.
| Month | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2025 (this page) | 3,564 | 75.7% | 90 min | 3.84% | B− |
| August 2025 | 3,492 | 81.8% | 76 min | 1.80% | B |
| September 2025 | 3,240 | 85.8% | 82 min | 0.62% | A+ |
| October 2025 | 3,467 | 82.0% | 74 min | 0.46% | B+ |
| November 2025 | 3,237 | 78.8% | 84 min | 2.35% | B |
| December 2025 | 3,252 | 71.2% | 76 min | 3.20% | C− |
| January 2026 | 2,874 | 74.2% | 79 min | 5.32% | C− |
| February 2026 | 2,770 | 81.1% | 82 min | 2.17% | B |
| March 2026 | 3,530 | 76.6% | 93 min | 3.63% | B− |
| April 2026 | 3,498 | 83.7% | 76 min | 1.00% | B |
| May 2026 | 3,745 | 84.4% | 78 min | 0.96% | B+ |
| June 2026 | 3,675 | 78.7% | 83 min | 2.23% | B |
Departure window
The best time of day to leave CLE in July
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 35 points, against 11 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.
- 5am–8am898 flights90.3%
- 8am–11am531 flights89.3%
- 11am–2pm557 flights77.8%
- 2pm–5pm736 flights65.4%
- 5pm–8pm652 flights58.6%
- 8pm–5am190 flights55.4%
Scale runs 45% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 55.4% on time, against 90.3% for the 5am–8am slot. By evening the aircraft flying these rotations have absorbed a full day of small delays and there is no slack left to recover in. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 898 flights scheduled in it.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 78.6% on time and Sunday the weakest at 70.7%. 8 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
Carrier by carrier
Which airlines ran best at CLE in July
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. United Airlines arrives on time 80.9% of the time; Frontier Airlines manages 70.4%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 530 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Airlines | 795 | 80.9% | 100 min | 1.51% | B |
| Frontier Airlines | 530 | 70.4% | 66 min | 0.94% | C+ |
| Southwest Airlines | 487 | 80.5% | 71 min | 1.23% | B |
| American Airlines | 382 | 73.0% | 114 min | 5.50% | C− |
| Republic Airwaysthin sample | 351 | 72.4% | 84 min | 10.26% | C− |
| Delta Air Linesthin sample | 347 | 86.4% | 63 min | 0.29% | A+ |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 236 | 63.7% | 140 min | 4.24% | D− |
| PSA Airlinesthin sample | 200 | 71.0% | 118 min | 18.50% | C− |
| JetBlue Airwaysthin sample | 89 | 67.4% | 66 min | 3.37% | C− |
| Alaska Airlinesthin sample | 61 | 70.7% | 75 min | 3.28% | C− |
| Spirit Airlinesthin sample | 54 | 79.2% | 74 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| Envoy Airthin sample | 32 | 42.9% | 59 min | 12.50% | F− |
American Airlines cancels 5.5% of what it schedules here, the highest in the table. A cancelled flight never appears in an on-time rate, so read that column alongside the punctuality one rather than after it.
Route by route
Busiest routes out of CLE in July
| Route | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CLE to ORD · Chicago | 429 | 66.5% | 118 min | 5.13% | C− |
| CLE to ATL · Atlantathin sample | 317 | 86.3% | 60 min | 0.32% | A+ |
| CLE to DEN · Denverthin sample | 186 | 78.5% | 64 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| CLE to BOS · Bostonthin sample | 178 | 75.1% | 70 min | 2.81% | B |
| CLE to EWR · Newarkthin sample | 178 | 67.3% | 133 min | 5.62% | C− |
| CLE to DFW · Dallas-Fort Worththin sample | 170 | 66.9% | 102 min | 3.53% | C− |
| CLE to CLT · Charlottethin sample | 162 | 78.0% | 73 min | 1.23% | B |
| CLE to MCO · Orlandothin sample | 149 | 68.9% | 51 min | 0.67% | C+ |
| CLE to LGA · New Yorkthin sample | 134 | 65.2% | 84 min | 14.18% | C− |
| CLE to DCA · Washingtonthin sample | 134 | 72.6% | 110 min | 20.90% | C− |
| CLE to PHL · Philadelphiathin sample | 117 | 67.7% | 130 min | 14.53% | C− |
| CLE to MSP · Minneapolisthin sample | 115 | 77.2% | 66 min | 0.87% | B+ |
| CLE to MDW · Chicagothin sample | 114 | 73.2% | 77 min | 1.75% | C |
| CLE to BNA · Nashvillethin sample | 90 | 84.3% | 81 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| CLE to BWI · Baltimorethin sample | 88 | 83.3% | 117 min | 4.55% | B− |
| CLE to IAH · Houstonthin sample | 88 | 81.8% | 47 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| CLE to LAS · Las Vegasthin sample | 82 | 84.0% | 71 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| CLE to TPA · Tampathin sample | 68 | 67.2% | 67 min | 1.47% | C |
| CLE to JFK · New Yorkthin sample | 66 | 64.9% | 105 min | 13.64% | D− |
| CLE to DTW · Detroitthin sample | 65 | 76.2% | 142 min | 3.08% | B− |
| CLE to LAX · Los Angelesthin sample | 62 | 93.5% | 124 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| CLE to PHX · Phoenixthin sample | 61 | 88.5% | 73 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| CLE to SEA · Seattlethin sample | 61 | 70.7% | 75 min | 3.28% | C− |
| CLE to SFO · San Franciscothin sample | 61 | 82.0% | 84 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| CLE to STL · St. Louisthin sample | 61 | 80.3% | 36 min | 0.00% | B+ |
Delay causes
What held CLE up in July
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 75,000 reported delay minutes.
- 35%Late-arriving aircraft
- 30%Carrier
- 30%National Airspace System
- 5%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
35% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 75,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 8 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 74,787 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations run at 3.84%, against 2.45% nationally. That is about one flight in 25 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 10.8% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 12.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
What to do with this
Flying from CLE in July
For a July trip through CLE: plan on this being one of the airport's harder months. The 5am–8am departures held up best at 90.3% on time, and with 10.8% of arrivals an hour or more late, a connection here deserves more slack than the same trip in September would.
Related
Where to go next
- Cleveland Hopkins International (CLE), the whole year
- CLE in August81.8%
- CLE in September85.8%
- CLE in October82.0%
- CLE in November78.8%
- CLE in December71.2%
- CLE in January74.2%
- CLE in February81.1%
- CLE in March76.6%
- CLE in April83.7%
- CLE in May84.4%
- CLE in June78.7%
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.