Airport month record

OGGJAN

Kahului Airport in January 2026

Departures: 2,169
Month: January 2026
National, same month: 79.2%
Carriers: 5

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

OGG in January lands a B+, level with the national rate of 79.2%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by roughly 50 minutes on average. That rests on 2,169 flights, of which Southwest Airlines flew 409 at 90.2% on time.

On time

78.6%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 2,144 completed departures

Avg delay

52 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.88%

Nationally in January: 4.71%

Whole year

83.0%

OGG across all twelve months

These figures cover 2,169 departures from Kahului Airport in January 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

January next to OGG's other months

Against OGG's own year, January ran 4 points worse than the twelve-month rate of 83.0%, which makes it number ten of twelve months, best first. Either side of it, December ran 77.0% on time and February 79.2%, so this month sits in line with its neighbours.

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	2,217	77.0%	49 min	0.77%	B+
January 2026 (this page)	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 January

Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 24 points, against 17 points between the best and worst carrier.

5am–8am141 flights94.3%
8am–11am242 flights87.1%
11am–2pm471 flights79.6%
2pm–5pm627 flights70.6%
5pm–8pm258 flights73.6%
8pm–5am430 flights82.1%

Scale runs 60% to 100%.

Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 94.3% of the time, against 70.6% for the afternoon window. That is 24 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 627 flights scheduled in it.

Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 82.3% on time and Monday the weakest at 73.8%, a spread of 9 points.

Carrier by carrier

Which airlines ran best at OGG in January

The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Southwest Airlines arrives on time 90.2% of the time; Alaska Airlines manages 73.5%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 1,335 flights means less than a ten-point one.

Carriers at OGG in January 2026
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Alaska Airlines	1,335	73.5%	49 min	0.82%	C+
Southwest Airlines	409	90.2%	50 min	0.24%	A+
United Airlinesthin sample	170	87.6%	92 min	0.00%	A+
American Airlinesthin sample	129	79.0%	52 min	3.10%	B−
Delta Air Linesthin sample	126	82.1%	61 min	2.38%	B

The spread between Southwest and Alaska is 17 points, wide enough that it should decide the booking. On a hundred trips that is 17 more arrivals inside the on-time window.

Route by route

Busiest routes out of OGG in January

Routes from OGG in January 2026
Route	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
OGG to HNL · Honolulu	898	77.1%	45 min	1.00%	B
OGG to SEA · Seattlethin sample	154	80.1%	45 min	1.30%	B
OGG to LAX · Los Angelesthin sample	139	72.5%	48 min	0.00%	C+
OGG to LIH · Lihuethin sample	124	68.3%	43 min	0.00%	C+
OGG to KOA · Kailua-Konathin sample	124	75.0%	45 min	0.00%	B+
OGG to SFO · San Franciscothin sample	109	87.2%	131 min	0.00%	A+
OGG to DFW · Dallas-Fort Worththin sample	62	71.9%	63 min	6.45%	C−
OGG to OAK · Oaklandthin sample	62	88.7%	114 min	0.00%	A+
OGG to PDX · Portlandthin sample	62	88.7%	52 min	0.00%	A+
OGG to PHX · Phoenixthin sample	62	91.9%	35 min	0.00%	A+
OGG to SAN · San Diegothin sample	62	80.0%	64 min	1.61%	B
OGG to LAS · Las Vegasthin sample	62	93.5%	78 min	0.00%	A+
OGG to SJC · San Josethin sample	38	68.4%	64 min	0.00%	C+
OGG to SLC · Salt Lake Citythin sample	36	82.9%	55 min	2.78%	B
OGG to SMF · Sacramentothin sample	34	73.5%	42 min	0.00%	C+
OGG to DEN · Denverthin sample	32	90.6%	44 min	0.00%	A+
OGG to LGB · Long Beachthin sample	31	87.1%	54 min	0.00%	A+

Delay causes

What held OGG up in January

Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 45% of the 24,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

Late-arriving aircraft
45%
Carrier
42%
National Airspace System
11%
Extreme weather
3%
Security
0%

45% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 24,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 15 to one. The split is drawn from 23,658 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations are rare at 0.88%, below the national 4.71% 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.

5.9% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 7.6%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last roughly 50 minutes, which a normal layover absorbs.

What to do with this

Flying from OGG in January

For a January trip through OGG: plan on this being one of the airport's harder months. The 5am–8am departures held up best at 94.3% on time, and with 5.9% 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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