Airport month record

HNLNOV

Daniel K. Inouye International in November 2025

Departures: 4,623
Month: November 2025
National, same month: 79.4%
Carriers: 6

Historical statistics for November 2025, not live status or a forecast for this year’s November. For today’s conditions at HNL, see live FAA status.

HNL in November earns a B. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 5 points better than the national rate of 79.4%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 50 minutes. That rests on 4,623 flights, of which Southwest Airlines flew 974 at 92.5% on time.

Set against the rest of the country, HNL's November record is 5 points better than the US average of 79.4%. That gap is worth roughly 48 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

84.2%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 4,539 completed departures

Avg delay

50 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.64%

Nationally in November: 2.49%

Whole year

82.9%

HNL across all twelve months

These figures cover 4,623 departures from Daniel K. Inouye 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 HNL's other months

Against HNL's own year, November ran about a point better than the twelve-month rate of 82.9%, which makes it number four of twelve months, best first. Cancellations are where November stands out: 1.64% of scheduled departures were called off, 1.7 times the airport's rate across the year. Either side of it, October ran 87.4% on time and December 76.1%, so a trip moved by a few weeks would have landed in a worse stretch.

HNL month by month
Month	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
July 2025	5,176	83.9%	56 min	1.22%	B
August 2025	4,921	88.7%	55 min	0.22%	A+
September 2025	4,480	91.4%	61 min	0.25%	A+
October 2025	4,682	87.4%	58 min	0.53%	A+
November 2025 (this page)	4,623	84.2%	50 min	1.64%	B
December 2025	5,054	76.1%	58 min	0.67%	B+
January 2026	5,054	79.7%	59 min	1.37%	B
February 2026	4,464	81.8%	55 min	0.90%	B+
March 2026	5,037	73.7%	56 min	2.24%	C
April 2026	4,809	82.8%	47 min	0.60%	B+
May 2026	4,953	82.7%	47 min	1.13%	B
June 2026	4,899	83.7%	44 min	0.69%	B+

Departure window

The best time of day to leave HNL in November

Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 12 points, against 11 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am495 flights92.1%
8am–11am817 flights89.9%
11am–2pm968 flights79.9%
2pm–5pm805 flights82.6%
5pm–8pm662 flights85.7%
8pm–5am876 flights79.9%

Scale runs 70% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The weak window here is the middle of the day, not the evening: 11am–2pm runs 79.9% on time against 92.1% for 5am–8am. That shape usually means a departure bank rather than an accumulating delay, so the recovery later in the afternoon is real rather than noise. The 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 968 flights scheduled in it.

Across the week, Monday is the strongest day at 88.3% on time and Sunday the weakest at 80.6%. 8 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

Carrier by carrier

Which airlines ran best at HNL in November

The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Southwest Airlines arrives on time 92.5% of the time; Hawaiian Airlines manages 81.3%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 2,668 flights means less than a ten-point one.

Carriers at HNL in November 2025
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Hawaiian Airlines	2,668	81.3%	46 min	2.10%	B
Southwest Airlines	974	92.5%	39 min	1.44%	A
United Airlinesthin sample	352	88.5%	82 min	1.14%	A
Delta Air Linesthin sample	287	88.8%	59 min	0.00%	A+
American Airlinesthin sample	204	77.3%	78 min	0.49%	B+
Alaska Airlinesthin sample	138	72.3%	44 min	0.72%	C+

Southwest leads Hawaiian by 11 points. Real, but small enough that a better departure time on the weaker carrier can outweigh it.

Route by route

Busiest routes out of HNL in November

Routes from HNL in November 2025
Route	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
HNL to OGG · Kahului	839	90.6%	35 min	2.38%	A
HNL to LIH · Lihue	646	89.1%	36 min	2.94%	A
HNL to KOA · Kailua-Kona	584	89.4%	33 min	2.91%	A
HNL to ITO · Hilo	513	87.0%	33 min	1.17%	A
HNL to LAX · Los Angeles	407	78.0%	65 min	0.49%	B+
HNL to SEA · Seattlethin sample	236	74.4%	67 min	0.85%	C+
HNL to LAS · Las Vegasthin sample	179	75.8%	59 min	0.56%	B+
HNL to SFO · San Franciscothin sample	175	81.1%	55 min	2.29%	B
HNL to SAN · San Diegothin sample	133	63.4%	55 min	1.50%	D
HNL to PHX · Phoenixthin sample	90	82.2%	66 min	0.00%	B+
HNL to SLC · Salt Lake Citythin sample	76	82.4%	32 min	0.00%	B+
HNL to PDX · Portlandthin sample	73	75.0%	46 min	1.37%	B
HNL to SJC · San Josethin sample	65	76.9%	48 min	0.00%	B+
HNL to ORD · Chicagothin sample	60	71.7%	40 min	0.00%	C+
HNL to LGB · Long Beachthin sample	60	83.3%	29 min	0.00%	B+
HNL to SMF · Sacramentothin sample	60	81.7%	41 min	0.00%	B+
HNL to OAK · Oaklandthin sample	60	76.7%	51 min	0.00%	B+
HNL to DFW · Dallas-Fort Worththin sample	54	66.0%	101 min	1.85%	C
HNL to JFK · New Yorkthin sample	47	85.1%	49 min	0.00%	A+
HNL to DEN · Denverthin sample	35	94.1%	37 min	2.86%	A
HNL to ANC · Anchoragethin sample	30	86.7%	67 min	0.00%	A+
HNL to IAH · Houstonthin sample	30	76.7%	29 min	0.00%	B+
HNL to GUM · Hagatnathin sample	30	96.7%	147 min	0.00%	A+
HNL to ONT · Ontariothin sample	30	86.7%	27 min	0.00%	A+
HNL to MSP · Minneapolisthin sample	30	86.7%	103 min	0.00%	A+

Delay causes

What held HNL up in November

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 62% of the 35,000 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.

Carrier
62%
Late-arriving aircraft
26%
National Airspace System
8%
Extreme weather
3%
Security
1%

The largest share of delay minutes, 62%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 22,000 of the 35,000 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 35,454 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations sit at 1.64% against a national 2.49%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.17%.

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.0% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 7.8% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.

What to do with this

Flying from HNL in November

For a November trip through HNL: expect 84.2% on time and 1.64% cancelled, going by November 2025. The 5am–8am window was the strongest part of the day.

Daniel K. Inouye International (HNL), the whole year
HNL in July83.9%
HNL in August88.7%
HNL in September91.4%
HNL in October87.4%
HNL in December76.1%
HNL in January79.7%
HNL in February81.8%
HNL in March73.7%
HNL in April82.8%
HNL in May82.7%
HNL in June83.7%

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.

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