Airport month record
DFWJUL
Dallas/Fort Worth International in July 2025
- Departures
- 28,959
- Month
- July 2025
- National, same month
- 71.1%
- Carriers
- 10
Historical statistics for July 2025, not live status or a forecast for this year’s July. For today’s conditions at DFW, see live FAA status.
DFW in July draws a D−. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is a little over an hour behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 28,959 flights, of which Delta Air Lines flew 1,054 at 77.7% on time.
Delta Air Lines is the most reliable of the eight carriers covered here at 77.7% on time across 1,054 flights.
Key figures
On time
64.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 27,896 completed departures
Avg delay
76 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.10%
Nationally in July: 2.45%
Whole year
72.0%
DFW across all twelve months
These figures cover 28,959 departures from Dallas/Fort Worth 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 DFW's other months
Against DFW's own year, July ran 8 points worse than the twelve-month rate of 72.0%, which makes it number eleven of twelve months, best first.
| Month | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2025 (this page) | 28,959 | 64.3% | 76 min | 3.10% | D− |
| August 2025 | 27,091 | 65.7% | 80 min | 2.66% | C |
| September 2025 | 25,641 | 77.4% | 74 min | 1.87% | B |
| October 2025 | 27,182 | 75.0% | 64 min | 1.20% | B |
| November 2025 | 25,032 | 74.3% | 76 min | 3.47% | C− |
| December 2025 | 25,770 | 71.7% | 67 min | 0.62% | C+ |
| January 2026 | 24,229 | 75.4% | 79 min | 9.85% | B− |
| February 2026 | 22,019 | 78.9% | 63 min | 1.31% | B |
| March 2026 | 26,008 | 73.4% | 76 min | 2.51% | C |
| April 2026 | 25,686 | 73.9% | 66 min | 1.33% | C |
| May 2026 | 27,419 | 72.7% | 74 min | 3.34% | C− |
| June 2026 | 27,815 | 63.6% | 82 min | 4.55% | D− |
Departure window
The best time of day to leave DFW in July
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 35 points, against 22 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.
- 5am–8am2,946 flights85.2%
- 8am–11am5,781 flights80.6%
- 11am–2pm4,516 flights67.6%
- 2pm–5pm5,091 flights57.2%
- 5pm–8pm5,298 flights49.9%
- 8pm–5am5,327 flights52.6%
Scale runs 40% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 49.9% on time, against 85.2% 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 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 5,781 flights scheduled in it.
Across the week, Friday is the strongest day at 69.2% on time and Monday the weakest at 59.1%. 10 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
Carrier by carrier
Which airlines ran best at DFW in July
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Delta Air Lines arrives on time 77.7% of the time; American Airlines manages 55.3%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 14,621 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlines | 14,621 | 55.3% | 78 min | 3.52% | D− |
| Envoy Air | 6,500 | 75.8% | 54 min | 2.11% | B |
| SkyWest Airlines | 2,452 | 77.0% | 74 min | 3.51% | B− |
| PSA Airlines | 1,905 | 67.4% | 87 min | 3.57% | C− |
| Delta Air Lines | 1,054 | 77.7% | 99 min | 2.66% | B |
| United Airlines | 801 | 69.4% | 109 min | 2.37% | C |
| Frontier Airlines | 684 | 67.6% | 72 min | 4.82% | C− |
| Spirit Airlines | 662 | 68.9% | 78 min | 0.76% | C+ |
| Alaska Airlinesthin sample | 241 | 51.9% | 57 min | 2.90% | F |
| JetBlue Airwaysthin sample | 31 | 37.9% | 195 min | 3.23% | F− |
Frontier Airlines cancels 4.8% 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 DFW in July
| Route | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DFW to ORD · Chicago | 655 | 60.9% | 96 min | 4.58% | D− |
| DFW to LGA · New York | 629 | 65.4% | 81 min | 6.68% | C− |
| DFW to ATL · Atlanta | 591 | 70.2% | 78 min | 3.21% | C− |
| DFW to LAX · Los Angeles | 564 | 60.8% | 84 min | 1.24% | D |
| DFW to DEN · Denver | 540 | 56.2% | 96 min | 3.33% | D− |
| DFW to SEA · Seattle | 506 | 63.0% | 67 min | 1.58% | D |
| DFW to IAH · Houston | 457 | 69.4% | 95 min | 4.60% | C− |
| DFW to AUS · Austin | 450 | 64.8% | 66 min | 4.00% | D− |
| DFW to MCO · Orlando | 447 | 50.8% | 74 min | 2.68% | F |
| DFW to LAS · Las Vegas | 433 | 59.1% | 75 min | 3.46% | D− |
| DFW to PHX · Phoenix | 420 | 60.7% | 71 min | 2.38% | D |
| DFW to MIA · Miami | 412 | 58.0% | 65 min | 2.67% | D |
| DFW to SAT · San Antonio | 396 | 60.8% | 83 min | 4.55% | D− |
| DFW to BOS · Boston | 369 | 58.1% | 94 min | 3.25% | D− |
| DFW to SFO · San Francisco | 368 | 56.5% | 85 min | 1.90% | D |
| DFW to CLT · Charlottethin sample | 348 | 61.0% | 85 min | 1.72% | D |
| DFW to SAN · San Diegothin sample | 336 | 52.6% | 66 min | 3.27% | F− |
| DFW to DTW · Detroitthin sample | 334 | 69.3% | 86 min | 1.20% | C |
| DFW to SLC · Salt Lake Citythin sample | 329 | 56.1% | 76 min | 2.74% | D |
| DFW to BNA · Nashvillethin sample | 318 | 51.0% | 89 min | 4.09% | F− |
| DFW to OKC · Oklahoma Citythin sample | 306 | 66.1% | 63 min | 3.27% | C− |
| DFW to TUL · Tulsathin sample | 305 | 66.2% | 81 min | 2.95% | C |
| DFW to XNA · Bentonvillethin sample | 294 | 78.1% | 87 min | 2.72% | B |
| DFW to PHL · Philadelphiathin sample | 292 | 60.8% | 79 min | 8.90% | D− |
| DFW to EWR · Newarkthin sample | 292 | 60.2% | 114 min | 5.48% | D− |
Delay causes
What held DFW up in July
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 47% of the 756,000 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.
- 47%Late-arriving aircraft
- 32%Carrier
- 16%National Airspace System
- 5%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
47% 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 756,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 9 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 755,829 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations run at 3.10%, against 2.45% nationally. That is about one flight in 30 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. 14.7% 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 DFW in July
For a July trip through DFW: plan on this being one of the airport's harder months. The 5am–8am departures held up best at 85.2% on time, and with 14.7% of arrivals an hour or more late, a connection here deserves more slack than the same trip in February would.
Related
Where to go next
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW), the whole year
- DFW in August65.7%
- DFW in September77.4%
- DFW in October75.0%
- DFW in November74.3%
- DFW in December71.7%
- DFW in January75.4%
- DFW in February78.9%
- DFW in March73.4%
- DFW in April73.9%
- DFW in May72.7%
- DFW in June63.6%
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.