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Southwest Airlines SJC to DEN on-time performance

Southwest Airlines nonstop flights from San Jose to Denver · Aug 2025 – Jul 2026

On-time arrivals
76%
arrived < 15 min late
Cancelled
0.5%
7 flights
Avg arrival delay
13 min
49 min when late
Rank on route
#3 of 3
route average 81% on time

Key facts

  • Southwest Airlines flights on SJC to DEN arrived on time 76% of the time in Aug 2025 – Jul 2026.
  • 0.5% were cancelled, and 6% arrived an hour or more late.
  • That ranks #3 of 3 airlines on this route, which averaged 81% on time overall.
  • The largest source of delay minutes was late-arriving aircraft (35%).

On-time trend by month

40%70%100%July 2025: 66.7% on time, 0.7% cancelledJul ’25August 2025: 71.0% on time, 0.0% cancelledAug ’25September 2025: 77.4% on time, 0.0% cancelledSep ’25October 2025: 79.7% on time, 0.0% cancelledOct ’25November 2025: 82.6% on time, 0.8% cancelledNov ’25December 2025: 78.7% on time, 0.0% cancelledDec ’25January 2026: 93.5% on time, 0.8% cancelledJan ’26February 2026: 87.3% on time, 2.5% cancelledFeb ’26March 2026: 82.7% on time, 0.0% cancelledMar ’26April 2026: 80.0% on time, 0.9% cancelledApr ’26May 2026: 68.5% on time, 0.0% cancelledMay ’26June 2026: 53.2% on time, 0.0% cancelledJun ’26July 2026: 61.1% on time, 0.7% cancelledJul ’26
On-time arrival rate by month. Hover a bar for exact figures.

Why this airline's flights were late

  • Late-arriving aircraft35%
  • Air traffic control & airport congestion33%
  • Airline (crew, maintenance, cleaning, fueling)29%
  • Extreme weather2%
  • Security1%

Other airlines on SJC to DEN

1,528 Southwest Airlines flights tracked on this route; 7 cancelled, 3 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.