Airport month record

OGGDEC

Kahului Airport in December 2025

Departures: 2,217
Month: December 2025
National, same month: 73.2%
Carriers: 6

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

OGG in December lands a B+, 4 points better than the national rate of 73.2%. Roughly one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by roughly 50 minutes on average. That rests on 2,217 flights, of which Southwest Airlines flew 421 at 88.6% on time.

On time

77.0%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 2,193 completed departures

Avg delay

49 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.77%

Nationally in December: 1.55%

Whole year

83.0%

OGG across all twelve months

These figures cover 2,217 departures from Kahului Airport in December 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

December next to OGG's other months

Against OGG's own year, December ran 6 points worse than the twelve-month rate of 83.0%, which makes it number eleven of twelve months, best first. Either side of it, November ran 84.6% on time and January 78.6%, so a trip moved by a few weeks would have landed in a better stretch.

OGG month by month
Month	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
September 2025	1,956	91.1%	46 min	0.10%	A+
October 2025	2,054	85.4%	54 min	0.97%	A+
November 2025	2,037	84.6%	50 min	1.28%	B
December 2025 (this page)	2,217	77.0%	49 min	0.77%	B+
January 2026	2,169	78.6%	52 min	0.88%	B+
February 2026	1,966	79.2%	49 min	0.76%	B+
March 2026	2,287	73.3%	65 min	3.24%	C−
April 2026	2,155	81.9%	46 min	0.37%	B+
May 2026	2,178	86.7%	47 min	0.78%	A+
June 2026	2,204	87.1%	58 min	0.36%	A+
July 2026	2,326	86.4%	73 min	0.56%	A+
August 2026	2,165	85.6%	60 min	2.63%	A

Departure window

The best time of day to leave OGG in December

Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 27 points, against 19 points between the best and worst carrier.

5am–8am140 flights93.6%
8am–11am279 flights85.6%
11am–2pm458 flights77.0%
2pm–5pm646 flights67.1%
5pm–8pm258 flights75.9%
8pm–5am436 flights81.7%

Scale runs 60% to 100%.

Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 93.6% of the time, against 67.1% for the afternoon window. That is 27 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 646 flights scheduled in it.

Across the week, Monday is the strongest day at 80.8% on time and Saturday the weakest at 67.7%, a spread of 13 points.

Carrier by carrier

Which airlines ran best at OGG in December

The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Southwest Airlines arrives on time 88.6% of the time; Hawaiian Airlines manages 69.8%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 1,088 flights means less than a ten-point one.

Carriers at OGG in December 2025
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Hawaiian Airlines	1,088	69.8%	45 min	0.46%	C+
Southwest Airlines	421	88.6%	51 min	0.24%	A+
Alaska Airlinesthin sample	221	72.2%	50 min	3.62%	C−
United Airlinesthin sample	219	87.2%	34 min	0.00%	A+
Delta Air Linesthin sample	145	86.6%	124 min	2.07%	A
American Airlinesthin sample	123	79.7%	46 min	0.00%	B+

The spread between Southwest and Hawaiian is 19 points, wide enough that it should decide the booking. On a hundred trips that is 19 more arrivals inside the on-time window.

Route by route

Busiest routes out of OGG in December

Routes from OGG in December 2025
Route	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
OGG to HNL · Honolulu	870	76.6%	42 min	0.34%	B+
OGG to LAX · Los Angelesthin sample	166	77.6%	49 min	0.60%	B+
OGG to SEA · Seattlethin sample	155	81.1%	74 min	3.23%	B−
OGG to SFO · San Franciscothin sample	154	86.4%	33 min	0.00%	A+
OGG to KOA · Kailua-Konathin sample	124	71.8%	43 min	0.00%	C+
OGG to LIH · Lihuethin sample	124	69.1%	39 min	0.00%	C+
OGG to SAN · San Diegothin sample	62	52.6%	54 min	6.45%	F−
OGG to PHX · Phoenixthin sample	62	88.7%	40 min	0.00%	A+
OGG to LAS · Las Vegasthin sample	62	77.0%	36 min	1.61%	B
OGG to PDX · Portlandthin sample	62	75.8%	53 min	0.00%	B+
OGG to OAK · Oaklandthin sample	62	77.4%	51 min	0.00%	B+
OGG to DFW · Dallas-Fort Worththin sample	47	83.0%	65 min	0.00%	B+
OGG to SLC · Salt Lake Citythin sample	44	83.3%	103 min	4.55%	B−
OGG to SJC · San Josethin sample	43	71.4%	156 min	2.33%	C
OGG to SMF · Sacramentothin sample	42	70.7%	54 min	0.00%	C+
OGG to DEN · Denverthin sample	33	93.8%	22 min	0.00%	A+
OGG to LGB · Long Beachthin sample	31	80.6%	34 min	0.00%	B+

Delay causes

What held OGG up in December

Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 46% of the 25,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

Late-arriving aircraft
46%
Carrier
35%
National Airspace System
14%
Extreme weather
5%
Security
0%

46% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 25,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 10 to one. The split is drawn from 24,612 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations are rare at 0.77%, below the national 1.55% 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 4.6% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 10.0% 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 OGG in December

For a December trip through OGG: plan on this being one of the airport's harder months. The 5am–8am departures held up best at 93.6% on time, and with 4.6% of arrivals an hour or more late, a connection here deserves more slack than the same trip in September would.

Where to go next

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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