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SFO vs PSP - 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
PSP

Palm Springs, CA

Palm Springs, California

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Key Performance Metrics

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

Metric SFO PSP
On-Time Rate (higher is better) 81.0% 83.7%
Avg Delay (lower is better) 72.5 min 70.8 min
Delay Rate (lower is better) 19.0% 16.3%
Cancellation Rate (lower is better) 0.85% 0.87%
Total Flights 1,466,784 159,999
Delayed Flights 278,538 26,083
Cancelled Flights 12,405 1,395
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%

PSP - Palm Springs, CA

Carrier 40.0%
Late Aircraft 34.7%
NAS 20.6%
Weather 4.4%
Security 0.3%

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 PSP

Route Flights On-Time
PSP → SFO
San Francisco
14,385 79.5%
SFO → PSP
Palm Springs
14,352 83.5%
PSP → PHX
Phoenix
10,035 84.5%
PHX → PSP
Palm Springs
10,033 83.9%
DEN → PSP
Palm Springs
9,569 78.3%
PSP → DEN
Denver
9,565 84%

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.