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🇩🇪 Cologne, Germany

Cologne Bonn Airport (CGN)

Cologne Bonn Airport (CGN, EDDK) serves Cologne, Germany. Flights leaving CGN left an average of 17.1 min late in the twelve months to July 2026, the 62nd least delayed of 88 busy European airports. 10.1 million passengers used it in the twelve months to May 2026, most often flying to or from Antalya.

Delays at CGN

Average departure delay per flight: 17.1 min over the twelve months to July 2026. Delays were worst in January (22.0 min) and lightest in April (11.1 min).

Average departure delay per flight from CGN, all causes, by month. Green is the least delayed month, orange the most.
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MonthAverage departure delayDepartures
August 202519.1 min5,605
September 202519.6 min5,344
October 202521.6 min5,740
November 202515.0 min3,930
December 202517.4 min3,963
January 202622.0 min3,512
February 202617.0 min3,431
March 202612.2 min4,120
April 202611.1 min4,479
May 202613.2 min4,752
June 202616.7 min4,931
July 202618.7 min5,619

Air traffic flow restrictions held 1.2% of arrivals at CGN for more than 15 minutes in the twelve months to August 2026, most often because of airport capacity (62% of those delay minutes).

Departure delay counts every cause, from the airline to air traffic control, and is measured against the scheduled time. Source: EUROCONTROL Aviation Intelligence Portal, summarised by TripStow. EUROCONTROL does not endorse TripStow.

Passengers at CGN

10,057,625 passengers used CGN in the twelve months to May 2026, on 69,780 commercial flights.

Passengers by month at CGN, arrivals and departures together.
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MonthPassengersFlights
June 2025982,1777,005
July 20251,084,4687,617
August 20251,143,1457,660
September 20251,052,5897,170
October 20251,133,0687,640
November 2025623,8784,474
December 2025634,1924,414
January 2026500,5313,713
February 2026507,7653,655
March 2026656,9734,713
April 2026815,8445,486
May 2026922,9956,233

Eurostat publishes airport figures a few months behind. Source: Eurostat (CC BY 4.0), summarised by TripStow.

Busiest routes from CGN

  1. Antalya (AYT)1,022,489 passengers
  2. Palma De Mallorca (PMI)970,977 passengers
  3. Istanbul (SAW)675,452 passengers
  4. Munich (MUC)495,021 passengers
  5. Vienna (VIE)392,438 passengers
  6. London Stansted (STN)330,032 passengers
  7. London Heathrow (LHR)313,521 passengers
  8. Barcelona (BCN)292,292 passengers
  9. Berlin Brandenburg (BER)252,037 passengers
  10. Istanbul (IST)236,426 passengers

Passengers in 2024, both directions together. Source: Eurostat (CC BY 4.0), summarised by TripStow.

Questions and answers

How delayed are flights at Cologne (CGN)?
Flights leaving CGN left an average of 17.1 min late in the twelve months to July 2026, the 62nd least delayed of 88 busy European airports.
Which month has the most delays at CGN?
January 2026, when flights left an average of 22.0 minutes late; the lightest month was April 2026 (11.1 minutes).
Why are flights delayed at CGN?
EUROCONTROL records why air traffic flow restrictions delay arrivals. At CGN in the last year the biggest cause was airport capacity (62% of those minutes), then weather (34%).

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