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Route Reliability

San Francisco → Tucson

SFOTUS · 751 miles · San Francisco International Airport to Tucson International Airport

88
Pretty Reliable
WanderNerd Reliability Score
82%
Arrive within 15 minutes
4 min
Average arrival delay
0.3%
Cancelled
992
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

United Airlines is the only airline in this data on this route, arriving on time 82% of the time across 992 flights. No comparison to make.

What the data says

Morning-you made the right choice.

SFO–TUS flights departing between 6–9 AM arrived on time 86% of the time, versus 70% between 12–3 PM.

Saturday has been the better bet.

A small edge: 85% on time on Saturdays against 78% on Thursdays.

It basically never cancels.

Out of 992 scheduled flights, only 0.3% were cancelled.

Ticking up lately.

SFO–TUS flights arrived on time 83% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 77% in the three months before that.

Best historical flights

Ranked by on-time arrivals, minimum 100 flights. Past performance, not a promise.

Top flights by on-time rate

More flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon83%(151 flights)
  • Tue84%(122 flights)
  • Wed84%(145 flights)
  • Thu78%(146 flights)
  • Fri79%(144 flights)
  • Sat85%(126 flights)
  • Sun81%(154 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 6–9 AM86%(323 flights)
  • 12–3 PM70%(79 flights)
  • 3–6 PM79%(233 flights)
  • 6–9 PM83%(352 flights)
  • 9 PM–12 AM(1 flights)
On-time trend by month
77%
May

Jun 90% → May 77% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202590%86
July 202587%83
August 202584%75
September 202585%60
October 202582%74
November 202579%120
December 202575%87
January 202676%80
February 202679%75
March 202689%79
April 202683%86
May 202677%83

Based on 992 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.