OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Miami to Houston

955 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on MIA–HOU arrive on time 75% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate75%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay55 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled1.1%of scheduled flights

based on 178 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • Southwest Airlines
    On-time75%
    Medianon time
    p9055 min
    Cancel1.1%
    Flights178

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline10%
  • Weather3%
  • Air traffic (NAS)23%
  • Late aircraft63%
  • 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 MIA → HOU

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 — 90% on time.

  • Mornings90% on time · p90 10 min · 638 flights
  • Afternoons76% on time · p90 50 min · 98 flights · limited
  • Middays69% on time · p90 55 min · 460 flights
  • Evenings61% on time · p90 90 min · 749 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 70% to 77% on time.

  • Tuesdays77% on time · p90 45 min · 267 flights
  • Wednesdays76% on time · p90 55 min · 265 flights
  • Mondays73% on time · p90 50 min · 302 flights
  • Sundays72% on time · p90 55 min · 275 flights
  • Saturdays72% on time · p90 55 min · 265 flights
  • Fridays71% on time · p90 45 min · 305 flights
  • Thursdays70% on time · p90 65 min · 294 flights
Advertisement

Keep exploring

Related pages

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.