Airline delays by country, January 2025

Name: Airline delays by country, January 2025 (1–31 January 2025)
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46.1 min average departure delay (early and cancelled flights count as 0), Pakistan

January 2025 (1–31 January 2025) Source: www.airportia.com/statistics/countries/2025-01/

Period: 1–31 January 2025 (UTC). Data calculated on 3 November 2026 at 04:00 UTC. In the average departure delay, early and cancelled flights count as 0. How we calculate this

Top 15 countries by average departure delay

Only countries with at least 3,000 flights in the period (100 a day) are ranked, so a handful of flights cannot top the list. 89 smaller countries were left out. 12 countries with an average delay of exactly 0 were left out too: that almost always means no departure times were reported.

Full ranking: 71 countries

#	Country	Average departure delay	Cancelled	Flights
1	Pakistan	46.1 min	1.8%	4,607
2	Vietnam	39.7 min	0.0%	27,818
3	United Kingdom	35.1 min	1.1%	76,952
4	Kenya	34.9 min	0.4%	13,674
5	South Korea	34.6 min	0.5%	43,943
6	Israel	34.4 min	0.5%	4,553
7	Nepal	34.0 min	0.0%	7,463
8	Canada	32.6 min	2.1%	90,718
9	Singapore	31.5 min	0.0%	17,150
10	Malaysia	31.3 min	0.3%	36,706
11	Kuwait	30.9 min	0.1%	5,597
12	Netherlands	30.7 min	2.8%	24,675
12	Hong Kong	30.7 min	0.1%	16,354
14	Bangladesh	29.9 min	0.2%	5,273
15	United States	29.2 min	2.4%	773,490
15	India	29.2 min	0.2%	114,382
15	Portugal	29.2 min	0.7%	11,153
18	Thailand	28.7 min	0.0%	34,047
18	Serbia	28.7 min	0.0%	3,311
20	Kazakhstan	28.4 min	0.2%	5,318
21	Oman	27.8 min	0.0%	5,110
22	Ireland	26.9 min	0.4%	78,639
23	United Arab Emirates	26.8 min	0.2%	42,034
23	France	26.8 min	1.0%	34,337
25	Hungary	26.7 min	0.0%	10,583
26	Uzbekistan	25.7 min	0.5%	3,321
27	Belgium	25.6 min	2.8%	5,712
28	Iceland	25.4 min	3.2%	3,445
29	Latvia	25.2 min	0.2%	3,298
30	Finland	24.9 min	3.6%	9,459
31	Switzerland	24.4 min	1.7%	12,465
32	Mexico	23.7 min	0.3%	45,067
32	Egypt	23.7 min	0.2%	13,591
34	Philippines	23.1 min	0.3%	29,142
35	Poland	23.0 min	0.0%	8,245
36	Indonesia	22.7 min	1.0%	57,771
37	Taiwan	22.4 min	0.1%	19,878
38	Qatar	22.3 min	0.0%	16,911
39	Australia	22.2 min	1.2%	55,736
40	Chile	21.8 min	0.8%	60,623
40	Morocco	21.8 min	0.2%	7,244
42	Saudi Arabia	21.4 min	0.5%	30,231
43	Colombia	20.3 min	0.7%	32,028
44	China	20.2 min	0.7%	442,815
45	Russia	19.1 min	0.4%	51,439
45	Algeria	19.1 min	0.4%	6,940
47	Norway	19.0 min	0.8%	32,042
48	Bahrain	18.7 min	0.0%	4,158
49	Malta	18.4 min	0.0%	11,828
50	Italy	18.1 min	0.0%	16,753
50	Panama	18.1 min	0.0%	11,320
52	Turkey	17.7 min	0.0%	53,871
53	Spain	17.2 min	0.2%	50,680
54	New Zealand	17.1 min	1.5%	15,091
55	Japan	17.0 min	0.7%	88,900
56	Germany	16.7 min	0.9%	38,825
56	Argentina	16.7 min	0.2%	9,504
58	Brazil	16.3 min	2.0%	47,608
59	Greece	14.9 min	0.2%	11,812
60	South Africa	14.4 min	0.9%	8,889
61	Ethiopia	13.0 min	0.0%	13,287
62	Bolivia	12.6 min	0.3%	3,658
63	Curacao	12.0 min	3.1%	4,098
64	Austria	9.8 min	0.5%	13,969
65	Iran	9.4 min	0.4%	9,156
66	Nigeria	8.3 min	0.0%	8,540
67	Costa Rica	5.6 min	0.1%	4,645
67	Myanmar (Burma)	5.6 min	0.6%	3,971
69	Denmark	3.2 min	0.0%	11,859
70	Tanzania	1.7 min	0.1%	7,595
71	Belize	0.1 min	0.0%	8,716

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The country with at least 100 flights a day whose airlines had the longest average departure delay in January 2025 was Pakistan: average departure delay 46.1 min (early and cancelled flights count as 0). Source: Airportia, "Airline delays by country, January 2025" (1–31 January 2025), https://www.airportia.com/statistics/countries/2025-01/, retrieved 3 November 2026.

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How we calculate this

Which flights count: Every flight in Airportia's schedule data (from the Aviation Edge feed) that was scheduled to depart in the period, counted once: code-share listings of the same flight are left out. Days are UTC calendar days.
Departure delay: The actual departure time (or the latest reported estimate when no actual time came in) minus the scheduled departure time. A flight that left early or on time counts as 0 minutes. A flight with no reported departure time, cancelled flights included, also counts as 0, so where the feed is patchy the average is lower than the real one.
Average departure delay: The mean of those delays over all counted flights in the period. It is not the share of flights more than 15 minutes late (the usual on-time measure), and it is about departures, not arrivals.
Why there is no "most punctual" ranking: Because flights without a reported departure time count as 0 minutes, a low average can mean missing data rather than punctuality, and the stored figures do not say how many flights had a reported time. So we only rank the most delayed, and the delay rankings leave out every airport, airline or country whose average delay is exactly 0, which almost always means that no times were reported.
Cancellations: Flights with the status Cancelled, as a share of the counted flights in the period.
Countries: Flights of the airlines registered in the country, wherever they fly, not flights from the country's airports. Totals include all tracked flights, including cargo.
Period: A month combines three 10-day periods: days 1–10, 11–20 and the last ten days of the month, weighted by departures. In a 31-day month day 21 is not included; in February the second and third periods overlap by a day or two.
Minimum sample: Only countries with at least 3,000 flights in the period (100 a day) are ranked, so a handful of flights cannot top the list. 89 smaller countries were left out. 12 countries with an average delay of exactly 0 were left out too: that almost always means no departure times were reported.

Coverage follows the schedule feed: some regional airports and airlines are missing or report few actual times. These are Airportia's own figures, not official statistics from airports, airlines or regulators.