Airport month record
CVGNOV
Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International in November 2025
- Departures
- 2,713
- Month
- November 2025
- National, same month
- 79.4%
- Carriers
- 10
Historical statistics for November 2025, not live status or a forecast for this year’s November. For today’s conditions at CVG, see live FAA status.
CVG in November lands a B, 3 points better than the national rate of 79.4%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by an hour and a half on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 2,713 flights, of which Delta Air Lines flew 623 at 87.7% on time.
Key figures
On time
82.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 2,636 completed departures
Avg delay
86 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.69%
Nationally in November: 2.49%
Whole year
78.8%
CVG across all twelve months
These figures cover 2,713 departures from Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International in November 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
November next to CVG's other months
Against CVG's own year, November ran 4 points better than the twelve-month rate of 78.8%, which makes it number three of twelve months, best first. Either side of it, October ran 81.2% on time and December 67.7%, so a trip moved by a few weeks would have landed in a worse stretch.
| Month | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2025 | 3,077 | 71.5% | 94 min | 2.73% | C |
| August 2025 | 2,894 | 80.7% | 81 min | 1.11% | B |
| September 2025 | 2,613 | 85.4% | 69 min | 0.61% | A+ |
| October 2025 | 2,941 | 81.2% | 61 min | 0.48% | B+ |
| November 2025 (this page) | 2,713 | 82.7% | 86 min | 2.69% | B |
| December 2025 | 2,710 | 67.7% | 84 min | 1.70% | C |
| January 2026 | 2,380 | 80.3% | 81 min | 6.26% | B− |
| February 2026 | 2,270 | 77.8% | 70 min | 1.45% | B |
| March 2026 | 3,105 | 75.4% | 90 min | 2.80% | B |
| April 2026 | 2,835 | 83.6% | 85 min | 1.02% | B |
| May 2026 | 3,064 | 82.4% | 66 min | 1.01% | B |
| June 2026 | 3,129 | 77.7% | 83 min | 1.57% | B |
Departure window
The best time of day to leave CVG in November
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 20 points, against 4 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.
- 5am–8am708 flights91.9%
- 8am–11am481 flights86.0%
- 11am–2pm419 flights80.2%
- 2pm–5pm467 flights80.1%
- 5pm–8pm485 flights72.4%
- 8pm–5am153 flights75.9%
Scale runs 65% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 91.9% of the time, against 72.4% for the evening window. That is 20 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 708 flights scheduled in it.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 87.7% on time and Monday the weakest at 76.5%. 11 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
Carrier by carrier
Which airlines ran best at CVG in November
The two carriers here are closely matched: 4 points separate the best from the worst. At that spread, schedule and price are better tie-breakers than reliability. Sample sizes are shown so you can see which rows are worth weighing.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delta Air Lines | 623 | 87.7% | 97 min | 0.48% | A+ |
| Republic Airways | 397 | 83.9% | 95 min | 7.30% | B− |
| Frontier Airlinesthin sample | 282 | 81.7% | 81 min | 1.42% | B |
| Allegiant Airthin sample | 249 | 78.4% | 57 min | 1.20% | B |
| American Airlinesthin sample | 245 | 84.1% | 116 min | 1.63% | B |
| PSA Airlinesthin sample | 224 | 74.8% | 97 min | 0.89% | C+ |
| Envoy Airthin sample | 208 | 85.4% | 72 min | 4.33% | A− |
| United Airlinesthin sample | 196 | 79.9% | 82 min | 1.02% | B |
| Southwest Airlinesthin sample | 174 | 85.6% | 59 min | 4.02% | A− |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 86 | 72.4% | 115 min | 11.63% | C− |
Republic Airways cancels 7.3% 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 CVG in November
| Route | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVG to ORD · Chicago | 378 | 72.6% | 91 min | 9.26% | C− |
| CVG to ATL · Atlantathin sample | 239 | 86.9% | 86 min | 0.84% | A+ |
| CVG to BOS · Bostonthin sample | 170 | 85.8% | 86 min | 4.71% | A− |
| CVG to CLT · Charlottethin sample | 144 | 86.0% | 100 min | 0.69% | A+ |
| CVG to MCO · Orlandothin sample | 142 | 79.6% | 84 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| CVG to DFW · Dallas-Fort Worththin sample | 135 | 83.2% | 107 min | 2.96% | B |
| CVG to DEN · Denverthin sample | 131 | 90.6% | 69 min | 2.29% | A |
| CVG to MIA · Miamithin sample | 87 | 91.8% | 227 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| CVG to IAD · Washingtonthin sample | 86 | 89.0% | 97 min | 4.65% | A− |
| CVG to DCA · Washingtonthin sample | 83 | 56.8% | 104 min | 2.41% | D |
| CVG to PHL · Philadelphiathin sample | 81 | 85.2% | 53 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| CVG to IAH · Houstonthin sample | 69 | 79.7% | 73 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| CVG to MSP · Minneapolisthin sample | 68 | 85.3% | 160 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| CVG to LGA · New Yorkthin sample | 67 | 76.6% | 168 min | 4.48% | B− |
| CVG to FLL · Fort Lauderdalethin sample | 61 | 83.3% | 54 min | 1.64% | B |
| CVG to BWI · Baltimorethin sample | 60 | 87.9% | 41 min | 3.33% | A− |
| CVG to JFK · New Yorkthin sample | 59 | 89.1% | 77 min | 5.08% | A− |
| CVG to SLC · Salt Lake Citythin sample | 58 | 87.9% | 46 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| CVG to SEA · Seattlethin sample | 57 | 84.2% | 24 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| CVG to LAS · Las Vegasthin sample | 55 | 94.5% | 91 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| CVG to TPA · Tampathin sample | 55 | 89.1% | 39 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| CVG to PHX · Phoenixthin sample | 51 | 84.3% | 60 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| CVG to RSW · Fort Myersthin sample | 50 | 90.0% | 32 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| CVG to BNA · Nashvillethin sample | 34 | 82.4% | 63 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| CVG to MDW · Chicagothin sample | 30 | 92.9% | 39 min | 6.67% | A− |
Delay causes
What held CVG up in November
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 39,000 reported delay minutes.
- 37%Late-arriving aircraft
- 34%National Airspace System
- 25%Carrier
- 4%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
37% 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 39,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 10 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 39,206 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations run at 2.69%, against 2.49% nationally. That is about one flight in 40 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.
7.5% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 7.8%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last an hour and a half, which a normal layover absorbs.
What to do with this
Flying from CVG in November
For a November trip through CVG: this is one of the better months to be flying from here, 82.7% on time with 2.69% cancelled. That is a base rate for the month as a whole; a single storm can still spoil a particular day.
Related
Where to go next
- Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International (CVG), the whole year
- CVG in July71.5%
- CVG in August80.7%
- CVG in September85.4%
- CVG in October81.2%
- CVG in December67.7%
- CVG in January80.3%
- CVG in February77.8%
- CVG in March75.4%
- CVG in April83.6%
- CVG in May82.4%
- CVG in June77.7%
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.