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Route Reliability

Sacramento → Palm Springs

SMF–PSP · 439 miles · Sacramento International Airport to Palm Springs International Airport

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Nerd Approved
WanderNerd Reliability Score
86%
Arrive within 15 minutes
3 min
Average arrival delay
0.2%
Cancelled
508
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Southwest Airlines is the only airline in this data on this route, arriving on time 86% of the time across 508 flights. No comparison to make.

What the data says

Morning flights do better here.

SMF–PSP flights departing between 6–9 AM arrived on time 94% of the time, versus 70% between 6–9 PM.

Thursdays have been rough.

SMF–PSP flights arrived on time 96% of the time on Wednesdays and just 80% on Thursdays. That gap is worth planning around.

It basically never cancels.

Out of 508 scheduled flights, only 0.2% were cancelled.

Trending in the right direction.

SMF–PSP flights arrived on time 89% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 81% in the three months before that.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon87%(83 flights)
  • Tue87%(60 flights)
  • Wed96%(56 flights)
  • Thu80%(81 flights)
  • Fri86%(85 flights)
  • Sat84%(56 flights)
  • Sun83%(84 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 6–9 AM94%(220 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM93%(83 flights)
  • 12–3 PM81%(16 flights)
  • 3–6 PM77%(75 flights)
  • 6–9 PM70%(105 flights)
  • 9 PM–12 AM—(6 flights)
On-time trend by month
88%
May

Jun 69% → May 88% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202569%26
July 202576%21
August 202594%31
September 202597%30
October 202593%44
November 202580%45
December 202571%44
January 202686%55
February 202688%50
March 202690%62
April 202690%49
May 202688%48

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Based on 508 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.