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Route Reliability

San Francisco → Tampa

SFO–TPA · 2,393 miles · San Francisco International Airport to Tampa International Airport

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Nerd Approved
WanderNerd Reliability Score
87%
Arrive within 15 minutes
1 min early
Average arrival delay
0.3%
Cancelled
721
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

United Airlines is the only airline in this data on this route, arriving on time 87% of the time across 721 flights. No comparison to make.

What the data says

Morning flights do better here.

SFO–TPA flights departing between 6–9 AM arrived on time 88% of the time, versus 80% between 3–6 PM.

Wednesday comes out ahead.

A small edge: 89% on time on Wednesdays against 84% on Sundays.

It basically never cancels.

Out of 721 scheduled flights, only 0.3% were cancelled.

Slipping a little lately.

SFO–TPA flights arrived on time 83% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 90% in the three months before that.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon87%(108 flights)
  • Tue87%(87 flights)
  • Wed89%(104 flights)
  • Thu84%(108 flights)
  • Fri87%(106 flights)
  • Sat88%(96 flights)
  • Sun84%(108 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 6–9 AM88%(239 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM87%(119 flights)
  • 12–3 PM83%(29 flights)
  • 3–6 PM80%(55 flights)
  • 6–9 PM—(1 flights)
  • 9 PM–12 AM87%(274 flights)
On-time trend by month
78%
May

Jun 93% → May 78% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202593%59
July 202573%62
August 202580%49
September 202593%30
October 202597%37
November 202588%60
December 202588%72
January 202688%83
February 202693%73
March 202685%82
April 202686%56
May 202678%54

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Based on 721 historical flights, because apparently we checked. Historical flight data: U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics, June 2025 – May 2026. Data through May 2026. How we calculate this.