OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Santa Rosa to San Diego

508 miData through May 2026Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on STS–SAN arrive on time 74% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate74%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay45 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled2.5%of scheduled flights

based on 902 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

Not enough comparable data to name a most-on-time carrier — low-data carriers aren't ranked.

  • Southwest Airlines
    On-time85%
    Medianon time
    p9025 min
    Cancel0.0%
    Flights85
  • SkyWest Airlines
    On-time73%
    Medianon time
    p9045 min
    Cancel2.8%
    Flights817

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline28%
  • Weather6%
  • Air traffic (NAS)26%
  • Late aircraft39%
  • Security0%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Late aircraft.

When flights don't go

Why flights were cancelled

  • Airline4%
  • Weather65%
  • Air traffic (NAS)30%
  • Security0%

Most cancellations here are attributed to Weather. Shares are among 23 cancellations with a reported cause (BTS reports causes from June 2003).

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

When to fly

Best time to fly STS → SAN

All airlines · rolling 36 months (2023-06 .. 2026-05).

Best time of day

Mornings are the most reliable time of day to fly this route — 83% on time.

  • Mornings83% on time · p90 20 min · 903 flights
  • Middays76% on time · p90 40 min · 332 flights
  • Afternoons75% on time · p90 50 min · 310 flights
  • Evenings57% on time · p90 55 min · 651 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 68% to 80% on time.

  • Wednesdays80% on time · p90 30 min · 283 flights
  • Saturdays79% on time · p90 30 min · 287 flights
  • Tuesdays76% on time · p90 30 min · 272 flights
  • Sundays73% on time · p90 45 min · 351 flights
  • Thursdays72% on time · p90 45 min · 354 flights
  • Mondays70% on time · p90 45 min · 356 flights
  • Fridays68% on time · p90 50 min · 361 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.