Airline delays by country, March 2025

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

March 2025 (1–31 March 2025) Source: www.airportia.com/statistics/countries/2025-03/

Period: 1–31 March 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. 13 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	Portugal	37.7 min	2.5%	11,258
2	Pakistan	33.5 min	3.6%	4,193
3	Israel	29.9 min	0.4%	4,491
4	United States	28.5 min	1.0%	843,446
4	Argentina	28.5 min	1.1%	9,628
6	Canada	27.9 min	1.8%	92,561
7	Vietnam	26.5 min	0.0%	26,684
8	Hong Kong	25.8 min	0.2%	16,141
9	Singapore	24.6 min	0.0%	16,427
10	South Korea	24.5 min	0.2%	40,670
11	Malaysia	23.5 min	0.5%	31,646
12	Netherlands	23.3 min	1.0%	26,197
13	United Kingdom	22.7 min	0.6%	94,070
14	Mexico	22.1 min	0.3%	45,658
15	Switzerland	22.0 min	0.6%	13,775
16	Iceland	20.7 min	2.6%	3,687
17	Taiwan	20.6 min	0.7%	19,659
18	Chile	19.9 min	0.5%	57,755
19	United Arab Emirates	19.4 min	0.2%	41,901
20	Thailand	19.3 min	0.0%	32,311
21	Nepal	19.2 min	0.0%	7,385
22	France	19.0 min	0.8%	35,349
23	Belgium	18.7 min	0.5%	6,393
24	Serbia	18.3 min	0.0%	3,128
25	India	18.2 min	0.1%	116,860
26	China	18.1 min	1.1%	406,753
26	Spain	18.1 min	0.2%	55,672
26	Philippines	18.1 min	0.4%	27,085
29	Ireland	18.0 min	0.3%	91,707
30	Australia	17.9 min	4.0%	56,118
31	Japan	17.6 min	1.2%	89,024
32	Italy	17.3 min	0.0%	17,485
33	Panama	16.9 min	0.1%	11,185
34	Poland	16.7 min	0.0%	8,494
34	Kuwait	16.7 min	0.1%	4,676
36	Qatar	16.5 min	0.1%	15,927
37	Indonesia	16.3 min	1.1%	49,595
38	Hungary	16.1 min	0.0%	10,209
39	New Zealand	15.8 min	2.8%	16,086
39	Latvia	15.8 min	0.0%	3,710
41	Malta	15.5 min	0.0%	11,493
42	Morocco	15.3 min	0.0%	6,066
43	Uzbekistan	14.9 min	0.4%	3,169
44	Finland	14.8 min	3.0%	9,498
44	South Africa	14.8 min	0.6%	8,944
46	Bahrain	13.9 min	0.0%	3,679
47	Colombia	13.5 min	1.8%	30,833
48	Germany	13.0 min	0.4%	47,723
48	Brazil	13.0 min	0.7%	44,182
50	Greece	12.9 min	0.7%	13,079
51	Russia	12.0 min	0.2%	50,940
52	Bangladesh	11.8 min	0.2%	4,990
53	Oman	11.7 min	0.0%	4,655
54	Saudi Arabia	11.6 min	0.2%	29,168
55	Turkey	11.2 min	0.2%	51,924
55	Kazakhstan	11.2 min	0.1%	5,454
57	Egypt	10.0 min	0.2%	13,074
58	Norway	9.9 min	0.5%	37,773
59	Austria	8.5 min	0.4%	15,717
60	Curacao	7.2 min	3.0%	4,234
61	Kenya	7.0 min	0.3%	13,053
62	Ethiopia	6.4 min	0.0%	12,922
63	Costa Rica	5.8 min	0.1%	3,399
64	Bolivia	5.7 min	0.3%	3,562
65	Iran	4.9 min	0.4%	7,899
66	Algeria	4.8 min	0.5%	6,461
67	Nigeria	3.7 min	0.3%	7,482
68	Denmark	2.1 min	0.0%	12,209
69	Myanmar (Burma)	2.0 min	1.5%	4,158
70	Tanzania	1.3 min	1.2%	7,855
71	Belize	0.0 min	0.0%	9,065

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The country with at least 100 flights a day whose airlines had the longest average departure delay in March 2025 was Portugal: average departure delay 37.7 min (early and cancelled flights count as 0). Source: Airportia, "Airline delays by country, March 2025" (1–31 March 2025), https://www.airportia.com/statistics/countries/2025-03/, 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. 13 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.