Best time to fly Seattle to Anchorage

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

Best month

September

88.4% on time · 624 flights

Worst month

December

54.6% on time · 478 flights

Month Flights On time Cancelled When late, by
January 478 75.5% 2.51% 51 min
February 414 79.7% 0.24% 42 min
March 478 66.8% 1.05% 61 min
April 452 84.1% 0% 42 min
May 587 79.2% 0.17% 44 min
June 665 76% 0.45% 42 min
July 745 65.7% 2.15% 47 min
August 724 72.3% 1.1% 46 min
September 624 88.4% 0.16% 69 min
October 553 76.7% 1.63% 51 min
November 483 84.9% 1.24% 49 min
December 478 54.6% 1.05% 60 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.