Airport month record
DFWJUL
Dallas/Fort Worth International in July 2026
- Departures
- 28,623
- Month
- July 2026
- National, same month
- 71.7%
- Carriers
- 9
Historical statistics for July 2026, 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 C. 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 28,623 flights, of which Envoy Air flew 6,666 at 82.0% on time.
Envoy Air is the most reliable of the seven carriers covered here at 82.0% on time across 6,666 flights.
Key figures
On time
66.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 28,124 completed departures
Avg delay
81 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.20%
Nationally in July: 2.62%
Whole year
72.8%
DFW across all twelve months
These figures cover 28,623 departures from Dallas/Fort Worth International in July 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
July next to DFW's other months
Against DFW's own year, July ran 7 points worse than the twelve-month rate of 72.8%, which makes it number eleven of twelve months, best first. Cancellations were unusually low for DFW in July, at 1.20% against 2.61% across the year. Either side of it, June ran 63.6% on time and August 73.5%, so a trip moved by a few weeks would have landed in a better stretch.
| Month | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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− |
| July 2026 (this page) | 28,623 | 66.2% | 81 min | 1.20% | C |
| August 2026 | 27,347 | 73.5% | 68 min | 0.54% | C+ |
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 32 points, against 26 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am2,927 flights85.0%
- 8am–11am5,628 flights81.8%
- 11am–2pm4,774 flights68.5%
- 2pm–5pm4,866 flights61.2%
- 5pm–8pm4,918 flights53.4%
- 8pm–5am5,510 flights54.1%
Scale runs 45% to 90%.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 53.4% on time, against 85.0% 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 5,628 flights scheduled in it.
Across the week, Saturday is the strongest day at 71.6% on time and Monday the weakest at 55.1%, a spread of 16 points.
Carrier by carrier
Which airlines ran best at DFW in July
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Envoy Air arrives on time 82.0% of the time; American Airlines manages 55.9%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 14,745 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlines | 14,745 | 55.9% | 82 min | 1.18% | D |
| Envoy Air | 6,666 | 82.0% | 64 min | 0.41% | B+ |
| SkyWest Airlines | 1,996 | 76.4% | 87 min | 0.30% | B+ |
| PSA Airlines | 1,715 | 68.8% | 95 min | 2.68% | C |
| Frontier Airlines | 1,204 | 67.2% | 79 min | 2.74% | C |
| Delta Air Lines | 998 | 77.7% | 84 min | 3.51% | B− |
| United Airlines | 937 | 72.8% | 89 min | 1.81% | C |
| Alaska Airlinesthin sample | 274 | 77.3% | 60 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| JetBlue Airwaysthin sample | 85 | 66.2% | 110 min | 5.88% | C− |
Delta Air Lines cancels 3.5% 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 DFW in July
| Route | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DFW to ORD · Chicago | 692 | 68.0% | 92 min | 2.17% | C |
| DFW to ATL · Atlanta | 578 | 63.8% | 83 min | 1.04% | D |
| DFW to LAX · Los Angeles | 561 | 70.8% | 62 min | 1.25% | C |
| DFW to LGA · New York | 548 | 54.4% | 79 min | 7.48% | F− |
| DFW to DEN · Denver | 547 | 63.5% | 94 min | 0.73% | D+ |
| DFW to SEA · Seattle | 502 | 73.6% | 69 min | 0.20% | C+ |
| DFW to IAH · Houston | 482 | 64.3% | 78 min | 0.62% | D+ |
| DFW to PHX · Phoenix | 479 | 69.9% | 66 min | 1.46% | C |
| DFW to MCO · Orlando | 438 | 51.9% | 84 min | 0.91% | F+ |
| DFW to SFO · San Francisco | 422 | 46.6% | 62 min | 2.13% | F |
| DFW to AUS · Austin | 414 | 67.7% | 89 min | 1.21% | C |
| DFW to MIA · Miami | 403 | 52.4% | 64 min | 0.25% | F+ |
| DFW to LAS · Las Vegas | 402 | 57.3% | 70 min | 1.00% | D |
| DFW to SAN · San Diego | 397 | 56.5% | 73 min | 0.50% | D+ |
| DFW to SAT · San Antonio | 389 | 61.0% | 93 min | 0.77% | D+ |
| DFW to PHL · Philadelphiathin sample | 341 | 62.3% | 77 min | 4.40% | D− |
| DFW to BOS · Bostonthin sample | 335 | 56.2% | 78 min | 3.28% | D− |
| DFW to CLT · Charlottethin sample | 334 | 62.4% | 64 min | 0.90% | D+ |
| DFW to SLC · Salt Lake Citythin sample | 327 | 60.4% | 67 min | 1.53% | D |
| DFW to EWR · Newarkthin sample | 325 | 64.7% | 106 min | 4.62% | D− |
| DFW to BNA · Nashvillethin sample | 325 | 49.7% | 86 min | 2.15% | F |
| DFW to DTW · Detroitthin sample | 318 | 68.2% | 76 min | 2.20% | C |
| DFW to MSP · Minneapolisthin sample | 314 | 63.8% | 70 min | 0.64% | D+ |
| DFW to FLL · Fort Lauderdalethin sample | 312 | 56.1% | 77 min | 2.56% | D |
| DFW to XNA · Bentonvillethin sample | 308 | 69.4% | 69 min | 1.30% | C |
Delay causes
What held DFW up in July
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 53% of the 767,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 53%Late-arriving aircraft
- 29%Carrier
- 14%National Airspace System
- 4%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
53% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 767,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 13 to one. The split is drawn from 767,367 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations sit at 1.20% against a national 2.62%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.54%.
14.9% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 11.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection 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 85.0% on time, and with 14.9% 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 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%
- DFW in August73.5%
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.