Best time to fly San Francisco to Denver

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

Best month

January

87.3% on time · 435 flights

Worst month

June

63.7% on time · 494 flights

Month Flights On time Cancelled When late, by
January 435 87.3% 0.23% 69 min
February 398 82.6% 0.25% 76 min
March 448 83.3% 0.89% 64 min
April 426 74.9% 0.7% 51 min
May 483 71.5% 0% 54 min
June 494 63.7% 0.2% 60 min
July 463 66.5% 1.73% 68 min
August 460 71.1% 0.22% 54 min
September 450 74% 0% 52 min
October 460 81.1% 0% 42 min
November 437 77.5% 0.92% 56 min
December 456 74.6% 0.44% 63 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.