Best time to fly out of McClellan-Palomar (CLD)
McClellan-Palomar 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.
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Not enough flights to say — fewer than 100 in this window.
The year at CLD
June was the hard month at CLD: 80% of departures left on time, across 300 flights. March was the easy one at 94%. Each month pools three years of that month, so a single bad week does not decide it.
| Month | Share departures that left on time | Flights |
|---|---|---|
| January | Not enough flights to say | 62 |
| February | Not enough flights to say | 90 |
| March | 94% | 134 |
| April | 87.9% | 240 |
| May | 80.5% | 266 |
| June | 80% | 300 |
| July | Not enough flights to say | 61 |
| 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 CLD
Every airline with at least 100 departures from CLD, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air | 89.7% | 71 min | 1% | 1,083 |
| SkyWest Airlines | 75.1% | 67 min | 0.3% | 374 |
What delays out of CLD were put down to
Airlines file a reason with every arrival running 15 minutes late or more. Across 237 flights that departed CLD and ran 15 minutes late or more, the delay minutes break down with 38.6% put down to air traffic & airport volume and 31% to airline operations.
- Late-arriving aircraft 27.1%
- Airline operations 31%
- Air traffic & airport volume 38.6%
- Severe weather 2%
- Security 1.4%
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 CLD
Of 1,460 scheduled arrivals into CLD, 81.5% reached the gate less than 15 minutes behind schedule. Of the 255 arrivals that ran late, 54.9% were no more than 45 minutes behind — which is the difference between a tight connection and a new boarding pass.
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 CLD
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.
CLD in one number
McClellan-Palomar (CLD)
Rank 312 of 363 US airports by departures. Steadiest stretch of the day: —. Hardest month: June.
Questions about CLD
- What is the worst month to fly out of CLD?
- June: 80% of the departures that flew left on time, with 300 scheduled. March was the other end of the year at 94%. Each figure pools three years of that calendar month.
- Which airline is most on time at CLD?
- Envoy Air — 89.7% of its 1,083 departures from CLD left on time. SkyWest Airlines sat at the other end at 75.1% over 374 flights. Only airlines with at least 100 departures here are ranked.
- How often are flights cancelled at CLD?
- 0.8% 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.