Airport month record

EWRNOV

Newark Liberty International in November 2025

Departures: 10,403
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 EWR, see live FAA status.

EWR in November carries a cancellation problem, not just a delay problem: 4.4% 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 C− overall. The punctuality figure counts only flights that actually departed, so it flatters an operation that cancels this often. That rests on 10,403 flights, of which Republic Airways flew 1,675 at 80.6% on time.

Republic Airways is the most reliable of the six carriers covered here at 80.6% on time across 1,675 flights.

On time

73.9%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 9,930 completed departures

Avg delay

79 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

4.39%

Nationally in November: 2.49%

Whole year

77.7%

EWR across all twelve months

These figures cover 10,403 departures from Newark Liberty 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 EWR's other months

Against EWR's own year, November ran 4 points worse than the twelve-month rate of 77.7%, which makes it number nine of twelve months, best first. Either side of it, October ran 71.0% on time and December 70.5%, so a trip moved by a few weeks would have landed in a worse stretch.

EWR month by month
Month	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
July 2025	10,478	68.2%	106 min	6.82%	C−
August 2025	10,410	77.9%	85 min	1.20%	B
September 2025	9,945	82.7%	81 min	1.11%	B
October 2025	10,578	71.0%	62 min	1.01%	C
November 2025 (this page)	10,403	73.9%	79 min	4.39%	C−
December 2025	10,652	70.5%	75 min	2.63%	C
January 2026	9,977	78.8%	68 min	6.37%	B−
February 2026	9,244	81.8%	67 min	7.88%	B−
March 2026	10,755	77.7%	76 min	2.32%	B
April 2026	10,358	85.0%	62 min	0.69%	A+
May 2026	10,300	86.4%	72 min	0.93%	A+
June 2026	9,967	78.6%	87 min	1.53%	B

Departure window

The best time of day to leave EWR in November

Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 23 points, against 9 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am1,676 flights86.0%
8am–11am1,977 flights74.7%
11am–2pm1,424 flights75.8%
2pm–5pm1,948 flights74.3%
5pm–8pm1,956 flights69.0%
8pm–5am1,422 flights62.9%

Scale runs 55% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 62.9% on time, against 86.0% 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 1,977 flights scheduled in it.

Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 83.0% on time and Sunday the weakest at 62.8%. 20 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

Carrier by carrier

Which airlines ran best at EWR in November

The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Republic Airways arrives on time 80.6% of the time; JetBlue Airways manages 71.6%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 458 flights means less than a ten-point one.

Carriers at EWR in November 2025
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
United Airlines	5,964	72.5%	80 min	2.92%	C
Republic Airways	1,675	80.6%	59 min	8.54%	B−
Spirit Airlines	738	71.9%	93 min	5.83%	C−
Delta Air Lines	564	73.6%	95 min	4.61%	C−
American Airlines	517	77.6%	82 min	4.64%	B−
JetBlue Airways	458	71.6%	76 min	4.37%	C−
Alaska Airlinesthin sample	284	73.0%	71 min	4.58%	C−
Frontier Airlinesthin sample	89	63.9%	59 min	4.49%	D−
Envoy Airthin sample	59	74.0%	79 min	15.25%	C−
Allegiant Airthin sample	55	74.1%	108 min	1.82%	C

Republic Airways cancels 8.5% 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 EWR in November

Routes from EWR in November 2025
Route	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
EWR to MCO · Orlando	609	76.3%	78 min	6.08%	B−
EWR to ORD · Chicago	521	64.7%	81 min	5.95%	D−
EWR to ATL · Atlanta	516	72.2%	77 min	4.65%	C−
EWR to LAX · Los Angeles	468	68.0%	73 min	1.92%	C
EWR to FLL · Fort Lauderdale	437	72.1%	86 min	4.81%	C−
EWR to SFO · San Franciscothin sample	351	73.2%	93 min	1.99%	C
EWR to CLT · Charlottethin sample	340	73.6%	100 min	4.12%	C−
EWR to DTW · Detroitthin sample	335	77.2%	95 min	8.36%	B−
EWR to MIA · Miamithin sample	327	72.7%	76 min	4.89%	C−
EWR to BOS · Bostonthin sample	327	73.0%	74 min	10.09%	C−
EWR to PBI · West Palm Beachthin sample	325	75.5%	77 min	2.77%	B
EWR to IAH · Houstonthin sample	323	81.4%	87 min	1.86%	B
EWR to DFW · Dallas-Fort Worththin sample	309	75.9%	80 min	2.91%	B
EWR to DEN · Denverthin sample	266	77.4%	82 min	0.38%	B+
EWR to TPA · Tampathin sample	244	77.8%	74 min	5.74%	B−
EWR to LAS · Las Vegasthin sample	241	79.2%	89 min	2.07%	B
EWR to PHX · Phoenixthin sample	224	71.9%	71 min	2.68%	C
EWR to RSW · Fort Myersthin sample	205	76.0%	76 min	2.44%	B
EWR to IND · Indianapolisthin sample	205	80.1%	77 min	6.83%	B−
EWR to AUS · Austinthin sample	204	73.6%	79 min	3.43%	C−
EWR to CMH · Columbusthin sample	195	80.7%	100 min	6.67%	B−
EWR to RDU · Raleighthin sample	190	68.5%	63 min	3.16%	C−
EWR to CLE · Clevelandthin sample	190	74.7%	58 min	4.21%	C−
EWR to SEA · Seattlethin sample	171	63.2%	75 min	4.68%	D−
EWR to BNA · Nashvillethin sample	171	70.4%	64 min	7.02%	C−

Delay causes

What held EWR 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 204,000 reported delay minutes.

Late-arriving aircraft
40%
National Airspace System
36%
Carrier
24%
Extreme weather
0%
Security
0%

40% 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 204,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 40 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 203,521 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations run at 4.39%, against 2.49% nationally. That is roughly 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. 11.2% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 7.8% 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 EWR in November

For a November trip through EWR: expect 73.9% on time and 4.39% cancelled, going by November 2025. The 5am–8am window was the strongest part of the day.

Newark Liberty International (EWR), the whole year
EWR in July68.2%
EWR in August77.9%
EWR in September82.7%
EWR in October71.0%
EWR in December70.5%
EWR in January78.8%
EWR in February81.8%
EWR in March77.7%
EWR in April85.0%
EWR in May86.4%
EWR in June78.6%

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.

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