Best time to fly out of Watertown (ATY)

Watertown did not fly enough departures in this window to split the day into time bands. Not enough flights to say. A percentage needs at least 100 flights behind it before it is worth printing; anything thinner is noise wearing a decimal point. These are historical odds, not forecasts. The records say what happened on this schedule over three years; they know nothing about tomorrow’s thunderstorm.

Data through June 2026 · Bureau of Transportation Statistics

On-time rate by hour and day

On this page, “on time” means a departure that pushed back less than 15 minutes behind its scheduled time — the Bureau of Transportation Statistics definition, and the one airlines are held to.

Share of departures that left on time, by hour band and day of week.
Departure time MonTueWedThuFriSatSun
Before 6am
6–8am
8–10am
10am–12pm
12–2pm
2–4pm
4–6pm
6–8pm
8–10pm
10pm–12am
fewer left on time more left on time

Not enough flights to say — fewer than 100 in this window.

The year at ATY

Month by month, Watertown is too thin to read. Not enough flights to say — fewer than 100 in this window.

Share of departures that left on time, by calendar month. Best month in green, worst in amber. The hairline sits at the overall rate, 86.8%.
Departure on-time share at ATY by calendar month
Month Share departures that left on time Flights
January Not enough flights to say 61
February Not enough flights to say 56
March Not enough flights to say 62
April Not enough flights to say 60
May Not enough flights to say 62
June Not enough flights to say 60
July Not enough flights to say 0
August Not enough flights to say 61
September Not enough flights to say 60
October Not enough flights to say 62
November Not enough flights to say 60
December Not enough flights to say 61

Airlines at ATY

Every airline with at least 100 departures from ATY, busiest first. These are that airline’s departures from this airport only — its record across the country sits on its own page.

Airline Left on time Typical delay Cancelled Departures
SkyWest Airlines 86.8% 148 min 1.1% 665

What delays out of ATY were put down to

Airlines file a reason with every arrival running 15 minutes late or more. Across 105 flights that departed ATY and ran 15 minutes late or more, the delay minutes break down with 56.2% put down to airline operations and 17.4% to severe weather.

Late-arriving aircraft 12.2% Airline operations 56.2% Air traffic & airport volume 14.1% Severe weather 17.4% Security 0%
  • Late-arriving aircraft 12.2%
  • Airline operations 56.2%
  • Air traffic & airport volume 14.1%
  • Severe weather 17.4%
  • Security 0%

Late-arriving aircraft is the knock-on category: the plane came in late, so it went out late again. It is why a 7am problem in Newark is still a problem in Denver at dinnertime, and why it is usually the biggest slice on the bar.

If you are connecting through ATY

Of 666 scheduled arrivals into ATY, 85.1% reached the gate less than 15 minutes behind schedule.

Work out a specific layover — pick the airport and the minutes you have, and the tool reads the same arrival records back as a share.

Busiest routes out of ATY

Ranked by flights, with the share that arrived on time at the far end. Where a route carries enough flights for a page of its own the chip goes there; otherwise it goes to the destination airport.

ATY in one number

Watertown (ATY)

Rank 342 of 363 US airports by departures. Steadiest stretch of the day: —. Hardest month: —.

July 2023–June 2026 · 658 departures flown

86.8% of departures left on time

Questions about ATY

How often are flights cancelled at ATY?
1.1% of scheduled departures were cancelled over July 2023 through June 2026. Cancellations are counted against everything scheduled, not against everything that flew — a rate that looks small still adds up to real people in a rebooking line.