OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Dallas-Fort Worth to Sacramento

1,431 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on DFW–SMF arrive on time 65% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate65%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay70 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled2.2%of scheduled flights

based on 1,730 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • American Airlines
    On-time65%
    Medianon time
    p9070 min
    Cancel2.2%
    Flights1,730

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline40%
  • Weather3%
  • Air traffic (NAS)9%
  • Late aircraft48%
  • Security0%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Late aircraft.

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

When to fly

Best time to fly DFW → SMF

All airlines · rolling 36 months (2023-01 .. 2025-12).

Best time of day

Mornings are the most reliable time of day to fly this route — 82% on time.

  • Mornings82% on time · p90 30 min · 1,085 flights
  • Middays75% on time · p90 45 min · 1,098 flights
  • Afternoons66% on time · p90 95 min · 335 flights
  • Overnights56% on time · p90 85 min · 1,656 flights
  • Evenings55% on time · p90 95 min · 1,015 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 64% to 69% on time.

  • Tuesdays69% on time · p90 50 min · 699 flights
  • Wednesdays68% on time · p90 65 min · 707 flights
  • Saturdays66% on time · p90 65 min · 717 flights
  • Thursdays66% on time · p90 70 min · 778 flights
  • Fridays66% on time · p90 80 min · 753 flights
  • Mondays64% on time · p90 65 min · 745 flights
  • Sundays64% on time · p90 90 min · 790 flights
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Methodology

A flight is on time when it arrives within 15 minutes of schedule — the US DOT / BTS standard. Median and p90(the “1-in-10 bad day”) are read from the full arrival-delay distribution, never averaged across periods.

Figures cover a carrier’s own BTS-coded flights. Cells below ~200 flights are flagged as limited data. All numbers are pre-computed from public BTS On-Time Performance data.