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Southwest Airlines SJC to SAN on-time performance

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

On-time arrivals
69%
arrived < 15 min late
Cancelled
0.9%
34 flights
Avg arrival delay
16 min
46 min when late
Rank on route
#3 of 4
route average 71% on time

Key facts

  • Southwest Airlines flights on SJC to SAN arrived on time 69% of the time in Aug 2025 – Jul 2026.
  • 0.9% were cancelled, and 7% arrived an hour or more late.
  • That ranks #3 of 4 airlines on this route, which averaged 71% on time overall.
  • The largest source of delay minutes was late-arriving aircraft (43%).

On-time trend by month

40%70%100%July 2025: 76.1% on time, 1.2% cancelledJul ’25August 2025: 71.5% on time, 0.0% cancelledAug ’25September 2025: 77.1% on time, 1.9% cancelledSep ’25October 2025: 64.3% on time, 1.2% cancelledOct ’25November 2025: 71.5% on time, 2.3% cancelledNov ’25December 2025: 64.4% on time, 1.3% cancelledDec ’25January 2026: 82.9% on time, 1.1% cancelledJan ’26February 2026: 78.6% on time, 0.0% cancelledFeb ’26March 2026: 77.3% on time, 2.2% cancelledMar ’26April 2026: 73.5% on time, 0.0% cancelledApr ’26May 2026: 62.3% on time, 0.3% cancelledMay ’26June 2026: 52.8% on time, 0.3% cancelledJun ’26July 2026: 57.5% 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 aircraft43%
  • Air traffic control & airport congestion39%
  • Airline (crew, maintenance, cleaning, fueling)17%
  • Extreme weather0%
  • Security0%

Other airlines on SJC to SAN

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

3,740 Southwest Airlines flights tracked on this route; 34 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.