Airport month record

OAKFEB

Oakland International in February 2026

Departures: 2,356
Month: February 2026
National, same month: 80.2%
Carriers: 3

Historical statistics for February 2026, not live status or a forecast for this year’s February. For today’s conditions at OAK, see live FAA status.

OAK in February lands a B+, 4 points better than the national rate of 80.2%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about 50 minutes on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 2,356 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.

On time

83.7%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 2,348 completed departures

Avg delay

50 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.25%

Nationally in February: 2.25%

Whole year

79.5%

OAK across all twelve months

These figures cover 2,356 departures from Oakland International in February 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

February next to OAK's other months

Against OAK's own year, February ran 4 points better than the twelve-month rate of 79.5%, which makes it number two of twelve months, best first. Cancellations were unusually low for OAK in February, at 0.25% against 0.64% across the year. Either side of it, January ran 88.4% on time and March 80.1%, so this month sits in line with its neighbours.

OAK month by month
Month	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
July 2025	3,046	78.4%	62 min	1.05%	B
August 2025	2,850	81.4%	58 min	0.35%	B+
September 2025	2,714	82.4%	47 min	0.29%	B+
October 2025	2,771	79.6%	52 min	0.25%	B+
November 2025	2,618	81.6%	56 min	2.06%	B
December 2025	2,646	76.7%	50 min	0.57%	B+
January 2026	2,408	88.4%	54 min	0.46%	A+
February 2026 (this page)	2,356	83.7%	50 min	0.25%	B+
March 2026	2,569	80.1%	53 min	0.97%	B+
April 2026	2,509	76.4%	46 min	0.28%	B+
May 2026	2,683	76.1%	50 min	0.63%	B+
June 2026	2,597	69.7%	49 min	0.42%	C+

Departure window

The best time of day to leave OAK in February

Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 21 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am432 flights94.7%
8am–11am433 flights88.6%
11am–2pm507 flights79.1%
2pm–5pm331 flights73.9%
5pm–8pm524 flights83.4%
8pm–5am129 flights75.8%

Scale runs 65% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 94.7% of the time, against 73.9% for the afternoon window. That is 21 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 5pm–8pm window is the busiest, with 524 flights scheduled in it.

Across the week, Sunday is the strongest day at 88.7% on time and Thursday the weakest at 77.8%. 11 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

Carrier by carrier

Which airlines ran best at OAK in February

Only one carrier clears this site's 365-flight floor here, so there is no comparison to draw. The table below is the full picture.

Carriers at OAK in February 2026
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Southwest Airlines	2,128	83.0%	49 min	0.28%	B+
Alaska Airlinesthin sample	124	89.5%	39 min	0.00%	A+
SkyWest Airlinesthin sample	96	91.6%	88 min	0.00%	A+

Route by route

Busiest routes out of OAK in February

Routes from OAK in February 2026
Route	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
OAK to LAS · Las Vegasthin sample	236	80.4%	59 min	0.42%	B+
OAK to SAN · San Diegothin sample	220	72.6%	43 min	0.45%	C+
OAK to BUR · Burbankthin sample	201	84.3%	40 min	1.49%	B
OAK to SNA · Santa Anathin sample	172	89.0%	37 min	0.00%	A+
OAK to LAX · Los Angelesthin sample	154	79.1%	56 min	0.65%	B+
OAK to SLC · Salt Lake Citythin sample	148	87.8%	76 min	0.00%	A+
OAK to PHX · Phoenixthin sample	148	88.5%	33 min	0.00%	A+
OAK to SEA · Seattlethin sample	137	91.2%	53 min	0.00%	A+
OAK to LGB · Long Beachthin sample	135	87.4%	51 min	0.00%	A+
OAK to ONT · Ontariothin sample	115	88.7%	60 min	0.00%	A+
OAK to DEN · Denverthin sample	112	82.1%	72 min	0.00%	B+
OAK to PDX · Portlandthin sample	97	92.8%	53 min	0.00%	A+
OAK to HNL · Honoluluthin sample	56	73.2%	33 min	0.00%	C+
OAK to OGG · Kahuluithin sample	56	92.9%	34 min	0.00%	A+
OAK to BOI · Boisethin sample	55	83.6%	45 min	0.00%	B+
OAK to PSP · Palm Springsthin sample	46	87.0%	46 min	0.00%	A+
OAK to LIH · Lihuethin sample	45	73.3%	31 min	0.00%	C+
OAK to DAL · Dallasthin sample	31	80.6%	46 min	0.00%	B+

Delay causes

What held OAK up in February

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 44% of the 19,000 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
41%
National Airspace System
12%
Extreme weather
3%
Security
1%

41% 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 19,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 13 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 18,917 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations are rare at 0.25%, below the national 2.25% 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.

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.0% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 6.5% 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 OAK in February

For a February trip through OAK: this is one of the better months to be flying from here, 83.7% on time with 0.25% cancelled. That is a base rate for the month as a whole; a single storm can still spoil a particular day.

Oakland International (OAK), the whole year
OAK in July78.4%
OAK in August81.4%
OAK in September82.4%
OAK in October79.6%
OAK in November81.6%
OAK in December76.7%
OAK in January88.4%
OAK in March80.1%
OAK in April76.4%
OAK in May76.1%
OAK in June69.7%

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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