Airport month record

MSPJUL

Minneapolis-St Paul International in July 2025

Departures: 10,565
Month: July 2025
National, same month: 71.1%
Carriers: 11

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

MSP in July sits in the middle of the pack with a C+. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 3 points better than the national rate of 71.1%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 10,565 flights, of which SkyWest Airlines flew 1,999 at 82.0% on time.

SkyWest Airlines is the most reliable of the five carriers covered here at 82.0% on time across 1,999 flights.

On time

74.1%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 10,413 completed departures

Avg delay

77 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.89%

Nationally in July: 2.45%

Whole year

79.1%

MSP across all twelve months

These figures cover 10,565 departures from Minneapolis-St Paul 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 MSP's other months

Against MSP's own year, July ran 5 points worse than the twelve-month rate of 79.1%, which makes it number ten of twelve months, best first.

MSP month by month
Month	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
July 2025 (this page)	10,565	74.1%	77 min	0.89%	C+
August 2025	10,305	81.5%	68 min	0.47%	B+
September 2025	9,559	85.6%	59 min	0.10%	A+
October 2025	9,657	84.7%	60 min	0.22%	B+
November 2025	8,806	82.1%	75 min	2.16%	B
December 2025	8,854	63.1%	78 min	2.28%	D
January 2026	8,055	72.9%	74 min	2.41%	C
February 2026	7,923	80.4%	69 min	1.12%	B
March 2026	9,608	77.2%	80 min	5.04%	B−
April 2026	9,639	83.9%	68 min	0.75%	B+
May 2026	10,400	83.4%	73 min	0.54%	B+
June 2026	10,491	77.9%	67 min	0.92%	B+

Departure window

The best time of day to leave MSP in July

Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 27 points, against 14 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am1,509 flights87.2%
8am–11am2,176 flights82.6%
11am–2pm1,745 flights78.1%
2pm–5pm1,765 flights70.0%
5pm–8pm1,602 flights59.8%
8pm–5am1,768 flights65.3%

Scale runs 50% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 59.8% on time, against 87.2% 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 2,176 flights scheduled in it.

Across the week, Thursday is the strongest day at 79.1% on time and Wednesday the weakest at 67.0%. 12 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

Carrier by carrier

Which airlines ran best at MSP in July

The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. SkyWest Airlines arrives on time 82.0% of the time; American Airlines manages 67.9%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 433 flights means less than a ten-point one.

Carriers at MSP in July 2025
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Delta Air Lines	6,541	72.5%	70 min	0.64%	C+
SkyWest Airlines	1,999	82.0%	89 min	0.25%	B+
Southwest Airlines	593	72.3%	71 min	0.84%	C+
United Airlines	461	70.5%	120 min	2.60%	C
American Airlines	433	67.9%	96 min	2.08%	C
Alaska Airlinesthin sample	154	74.2%	58 min	1.30%	C
Republic Airwaysthin sample	119	75.2%	115 min	8.40%	B−
Envoy Airthin sample	92	64.4%	84 min	2.17%	D
Frontier Airlinesthin sample	78	79.5%	102 min	0.00%	B+
Spirit Airlinesthin sample	40	68.4%	50 min	2.50%	C
PSA Airlinesthin sample	38	71.0%	169 min	13.16%	C−

The spread between SkyWest and American is 14 points, wide enough that it should decide the booking. On a hundred trips that is 14 more arrivals inside the on-time window.

Route by route

Busiest routes out of MSP in July

Routes from MSP in July 2025
Route	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
MSP to DEN · Denver	570	68.7%	87 min	1.23%	C
MSP to ORD · Chicago	544	63.7%	95 min	1.29%	D
MSP to ATL · Atlantathin sample	305	78.9%	52 min	0.33%	B+
MSP to SEA · Seattlethin sample	295	82.4%	60 min	1.02%	B
MSP to DFW · Dallas-Fort Worththin sample	281	66.9%	70 min	1.07%	C
MSP to PHX · Phoenixthin sample	273	77.7%	79 min	0.00%	B+
MSP to MDW · Chicagothin sample	249	75.3%	60 min	1.20%	B
MSP to LAX · Los Angelesthin sample	231	78.8%	60 min	0.00%	B+
MSP to CLT · Charlottethin sample	224	73.4%	70 min	2.68%	C
MSP to LAS · Las Vegasthin sample	205	81.8%	51 min	0.00%	B+
MSP to DCA · Washingtonthin sample	203	62.1%	105 min	7.39%	D−
MSP to DTW · Detroitthin sample	196	78.4%	89 min	0.00%	B+
MSP to LGA · New Yorkthin sample	195	75.5%	64 min	3.59%	B−
MSP to SFO · San Franciscothin sample	193	75.1%	58 min	0.00%	B+
MSP to EWR · Newarkthin sample	184	59.9%	137 min	6.52%	D−
MSP to BOS · Bostonthin sample	178	75.8%	68 min	0.00%	B+
MSP to PHL · Philadelphiathin sample	168	70.1%	84 min	1.19%	C
MSP to BNA · Nashvillethin sample	154	76.5%	66 min	0.00%	B+
MSP to MCO · Orlandothin sample	153	72.7%	97 min	0.65%	C+
MSP to AUS · Austinthin sample	150	63.3%	68 min	0.67%	D+
MSP to PDX · Portlandthin sample	150	74.0%	53 min	0.00%	C+
MSP to SLC · Salt Lake Citythin sample	147	76.9%	49 min	0.00%	B+
MSP to STL · St. Louisthin sample	146	68.1%	73 min	1.37%	C
MSP to MKE · Milwaukeethin sample	143	77.3%	62 min	1.40%	B
MSP to BWI · Baltimorethin sample	143	65.0%	87 min	0.70%	C+

Delay causes

What held MSP up in July

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 44% of the 208,000 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
44%
Late-arriving aircraft
23%
National Airspace System
21%
Extreme weather
12%

Extreme weather accounts for 12% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the comparison with the other months below is the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 7%, so this operation carries roughly 1.6 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 208,274 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations are rare at 0.89%, below the national 2.45% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 10.7% 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 MSP in July

For a July trip through MSP: plan on this being one of the airport's harder months. The 5am–8am departures held up best at 87.2% on time, and with 10.7% of arrivals an hour or more late, a connection here deserves more slack than the same trip in September would.

Minneapolis-St Paul International (MSP), the whole year
MSP in August81.5%
MSP in September85.6%
MSP in October84.7%
MSP in November82.1%
MSP in December63.1%
MSP in January72.9%
MSP in February80.4%
MSP in March77.2%
MSP in April83.9%
MSP in May83.4%
MSP in June77.9%

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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