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🇩🇪 Duesseldorf, Germany

Düsseldorf Airport (DUS)

Düsseldorf Airport (DUS, EDDL) serves Duesseldorf, Germany. Flights leaving DUS left an average of 14.3 min late in the twelve months to July 2026, the 36th least delayed of 88 busy European airports. 21.1 million passengers used it in the twelve months to May 2026, most often flying to or from Palma de Mallorca.

Delays at DUS

Average departure delay per flight: 14.3 min over the twelve months to July 2026. Delays were worst in September (18.2 min) and lightest in March (9.0 min).

Average departure delay per flight from DUS, all causes, by month. Green is the least delayed month, orange the most.
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MonthAverage departure delayDepartures
August 202516.8 min7,917
September 202518.2 min7,845
October 202517.6 min8,074
November 202510.9 min5,573
December 202513.0 min5,310
January 202616.8 min4,941
February 202610.7 min4,684
March 20269.0 min5,847
April 20269.4 min6,496
May 202613.5 min7,247
June 202614.4 min7,114
July 202616.8 min7,834

Air traffic flow restrictions held 0.1% of arrivals at DUS for more than 15 minutes in the twelve months to August 2026, most often because of weather (72% 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 DUS

21,137,591 passengers used DUS in the twelve months to May 2026, on 151,840 commercial flights.

Passengers by month at DUS, arrivals and departures together.
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MonthPassengersFlights
June 20252,003,00714,494
July 20252,203,06315,405
August 20252,271,48515,280
September 20252,152,67415,067
October 20252,253,57415,356
November 20251,422,85710,601
December 20251,354,77710,071
January 20261,183,8379,266
February 20261,177,1228,920
March 20261,416,93911,078
April 20261,746,39712,421
May 20261,951,85913,881

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

Busiest routes from DUS

  1. Palma De Mallorca (PMI)1,355,713 passengers
  2. Antalya (AYT)1,119,151 passengers
  3. Munich (MUC)912,454 passengers
  4. Istanbul (SAW)669,270 passengers
  5. London Heathrow (LHR)618,215 passengers
  6. Dubai (DXB)580,488 passengers
  7. Istanbul (IST)554,554 passengers
  8. Vienna (VIE)525,819 passengers
  9. Hurghada (HRG)466,806 passengers
  10. Zurich (ZRH)466,362 passengers

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

Questions and answers

How delayed are flights at Duesseldorf (DUS)?
Flights leaving DUS left an average of 14.3 min late in the twelve months to July 2026, the 36th least delayed of 88 busy European airports.
Which month has the most delays at DUS?
September 2025, when flights left an average of 18.2 minutes late; the lightest month was March 2026 (9.0 minutes).
Why are flights delayed at DUS?
EUROCONTROL records why air traffic flow restrictions delay arrivals. At DUS in the last year the biggest cause was weather (72% of those minutes), then airport capacity (15%).

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