Best time to fly Waterloo to Chicago

Every month pooled across the years on record, so "July" means July generally rather than one particular July. Full ALO to ORD record →

Best month

May

86.4% on time · 59 flights

Worst month

December

58.8% on time · 56 flights

Month Flights On time Cancelled When late, by
January 54 61.1% 0% 118 min
February 48 77.1% 0% 147 min
March 53 69.4% 5.66% 175 min
April 59 80.4% 5.08% 150 min
May 59 86.4% 0% 139 min
June 51 68.9% 11.76% 149 min
July 61 60% 1.64% 84 min
August 55 70.4% 0% 39 min
September 52 80.8% 0% 67 min
October 61 70.5% 0% 53 min
November 54 78.4% 5.56% 131 min
December 56 58.8% 8.93% 77 min

What a seasonal pattern can and cannot tell you

Months differ for reasons that repeat — summer thunderstorms in the American interior, winter fog and de-icing in northern Europe, school holidays filling every seat and leaving no slack in the schedule. Those are real and they come back each year.

What the pattern cannot do is forecast a particular flight. A quiet month has late days and a bad month has punctual ones. Treat this as a way to choose between two dates you are indifferent about, not as a promise.