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SFO vs HNL - Airport Comparison

Select two airports to compare on-time performance, delays, cancellations, and top routes using U.S. Department of Transportation Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) data (2020–2025) across all 50 states. See our methodology for how metrics are computed.

Airport A
SFO

San Francisco, CA

San Francisco, California

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Airport B
HNL

Honolulu, HI

Honolulu, Hawaii

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Key Performance Metrics

BTS on-time performance data, 2020–2025 cumulative.

Metric SFO HNL
On-Time Rate (higher is better) 81.0% 84.6%
Avg Delay (lower is better) 72.5 min 62.1 min
Delay Rate (lower is better) 19.0% 15.4%
Cancellation Rate (lower is better) 0.85% 0.63%
Total Flights 1,466,784 631,778
Delayed Flights 278,538 97,030
Cancelled Flights 12,405 4,006
Top Delay Cause Late Aircraft Carrier

✓ / ▲ indicates the more favorable value. Data: BTS On-Time Performance, 2020–2025.

Delay Cause Breakdown

SFO - San Francisco, CA

Late Aircraft 42.0%
Carrier 36.9%
NAS 17.9%
Weather 3.2%
Security 0.1%

HNL - Honolulu, HI

Carrier 53.5%
Late Aircraft 37.3%
NAS 7.0%
Weather 1.6%
Security 0.5%

Top Routes

Top routes from SFO

Route Flights On-Time
LAX → SFO
San Francisco
63,553 78.7%
SFO → LAX
Los Angeles
63,540 82.9%
SFO → SEA
Seattle
37,671 82.1%
SEA → SFO
San Francisco
37,651 79.1%
JFK → SFO
San Francisco
35,481 81.9%
SFO → JFK
New York
35,481 83.2%

Top routes from HNL

Route Flights On-Time
HNL → OGG
Kahului
60,102 86.7%
OGG → HNL
Honolulu
60,101 84.7%
HNL → LIH
Lihue
42,503 87.2%
LIH → HNL
Honolulu
42,502 86%
KOA → HNL
Honolulu
41,340 86.9%
HNL → KOA
Kona
41,330 87.8%

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), On-Time Performance Data (2020–2025) Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), On-Time Performance Data (2020–2025) On-time rates exclude cancelled and diverted flights. PlainFlights is not affiliated with BTS or the DOT

Every figure on PlainFlights is rendered directly from BTS On-Time Performance data, no number is typed in by an editor. This tool queries live on-time, delay, and cancellation figures for the two selected airports from the dataset. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.