Best time to fly Washington to Nashville

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

Best month

October

84.3% on time · 743 flights

Worst month

February

67.4% on time · 680 flights

Month Flights On time Cancelled When late, by
January 710 79.8% 10% 66 min
February 680 67.4% 5.74% 75 min
March 770 75.3% 3.25% 81 min
April 738 79% 0.68% 59 min
May 755 69.6% 1.46% 63 min
June 707 70.8% 4.53% 82 min
July 703 72.6% 5.97% 88 min
August 700 82.6% 1.43% 70 min
September 681 83.5% 0.15% 51 min
October 743 84.3% 0% 52 min
November 694 82.8% 1.01% 60 min
December 668 73.1% 0.3% 61 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.