Best time to fly Atlanta to San Francisco

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

Best month

March

86.6% on time · 282 flights

Worst month

June

56% on time · 304 flights

Month Flights On time Cancelled When late, by
January 217 73.7% 1.84% 55 min
February 220 74.4% 0% 46 min
March 282 86.6% 2.13% 76 min
April 283 69.9% 0% 57 min
May 285 58% 0.35% 56 min
June 304 56% 0.33% 53 min
July 319 71.1% 0.31% 66 min
August 305 69.1% 0.33% 57 min
September 277 80.9% 0% 43 min
October 306 72.1% 0.33% 49 min
November 287 76.3% 0.7% 64 min
December 269 71.3% 1.49% 85 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.