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Southwest Airlines OAK to SAN on-time performance

Southwest Airlines nonstop flights from Oakland to San Diego · Aug 2025 – Jul 2026

On-time arrivals
65%
arrived < 15 min late
Cancelled
0.9%
25 flights
Avg arrival delay
19 min
49 min when late
Rank on route
#3 of 3
route average 65% on time

Key facts

  • Southwest Airlines flights on OAK to SAN arrived on time 65% of the time in Aug 2025 – Jul 2026.
  • 0.9% were cancelled, and 9% arrived an hour or more late.
  • That ranks #3 of 3 airlines on this route, which averaged 65% on time overall.
  • The largest source of delay minutes was late-arriving aircraft (43%).

On-time trend by month

40%70%100%July 2025: 75.0% on time, 1.1% cancelledJul ’25August 2025: 72.3% on time, 0.0% cancelledAug ’25September 2025: 69.9% on time, 0.8% cancelledSep ’25October 2025: 69.2% on time, 0.0% cancelledOct ’25November 2025: 62.9% on time, 4.2% cancelledNov ’25December 2025: 58.4% on time, 1.5% cancelledDec ’25January 2026: 77.2% on time, 0.9% cancelledJan ’26February 2026: 72.6% on time, 0.5% cancelledFeb ’26March 2026: 70.9% on time, 0.9% cancelledMar ’26April 2026: 57.7% on time, 0.4% cancelledApr ’26May 2026: 57.4% on time, 0.4% cancelledMay ’26June 2026: 54.5% on time, 0.4% cancelledJun ’26July 2026: 55.3% on time, 0.0% cancelledJul ’26
On-time arrival rate by month. Hover a bar for exact figures.

Why this airline's flights were late

  • Late-arriving aircraft43%
  • Air traffic control & airport congestion30%
  • Airline (crew, maintenance, cleaning, fueling)25%
  • Extreme weather1%
  • Security0%

Other airlines on OAK to SAN

2,906 Southwest Airlines flights tracked on this route; 25 cancelled, 4 diverted.

Data: U.S. DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Aug 2025 – Jul 2026 (12 months). Latest month published by BTS: July 2026. How we calculate this.