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Southwest Airlines PHX to SAN on-time performance

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

On-time arrivals
70%
arrived < 15 min late
Cancelled
1.0%
31 flights
Avg arrival delay
16 min
49 min when late
Rank on route
#4 of 5
route average 72% on time

Key facts

  • Southwest Airlines flights on PHX to SAN arrived on time 70% of the time in Aug 2025 – Jul 2026.
  • 1% were cancelled, and 7% arrived an hour or more late.
  • That ranks #4 of 5 airlines on this route, which averaged 72% on time overall.
  • The largest source of delay minutes was late-arriving aircraft (45%).

On-time trend by month

40%70%100%July 2025: 76.9% on time, 1.1% cancelledJul ’25August 2025: 82.2% on time, 0.0% cancelledAug ’25September 2025: 76.4% on time, 2.4% cancelledSep ’25October 2025: 70.4% on time, 0.3% cancelledOct ’25November 2025: 72.6% on time, 4.9% cancelledNov ’25December 2025: 67.3% on time, 0.8% cancelledDec ’25January 2026: 82.3% on time, 2.0% cancelledJan ’26February 2026: 79.0% on time, 0.0% cancelledFeb ’26March 2026: 75.5% on time, 0.0% cancelledMar ’26April 2026: 66.1% on time, 0.4% cancelledApr ’26May 2026: 59.5% on time, 0.0% cancelledMay ’26June 2026: 55.4% on time, 0.7% cancelledJun ’26July 2026: 61.1% on time, 0.3% cancelledJul ’26
On-time arrival rate by month. Hover a bar for exact figures.

Why this airline's flights were late

  • Late-arriving aircraft45%
  • Airline (crew, maintenance, cleaning, fueling)29%
  • Air traffic control & airport congestion24%
  • Extreme weather1%
  • Security1%

Other airlines on PHX to SAN

Full PHX to SAN comparison →
Southwest Airlines on-time record across all routes →

3,219 Southwest Airlines flights tracked on this route; 31 cancelled, 7 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.