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Frankfurt am Main Airport (FRA)

Frankfurt am Main Airport (FRA, EDDF) serves Frankfurt, Germany. Flights leaving FRA left an average of 18.8 min late in the twelve months to July 2026, the 73rd least delayed of 88 busy European airports. 63.0 million passengers used it in the twelve months to May 2026, most often flying to or from London.

Delays at FRA

Average departure delay per flight: 18.8 min over the twelve months to July 2026. Delays were worst in January (22.7 min) and lightest in April (13.4 min).

Average departure delay per flight from FRA, all causes, by month. Green is the least delayed month, orange the most.
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MonthAverage departure delayDepartures
August 202522.0 min21,462
September 202521.9 min21,001
October 202518.1 min21,237
November 202517.5 min18,120
December 202518.9 min17,321
January 202622.7 min15,665
February 202618.5 min14,649
March 202617.6 min17,448
April 202613.4 min17,303
May 202616.6 min20,686
June 202619.8 min19,694
July 202618.1 min20,648

Air traffic flow restrictions held 1.6% of arrivals at FRA for more than 15 minutes in the twelve months to August 2026, most often because of weather (88% 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 FRA

62,961,131 passengers used FRA in the twelve months to May 2026, on 422,125 commercial flights.

Passengers by month at FRA, arrivals and departures together.
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MonthPassengersFlights
June 20255,783,13538,687
July 20256,126,79639,876
August 20256,322,26240,277
September 20255,963,84639,310
October 20256,016,01839,655
November 20254,819,32033,484
December 20254,758,90032,186
January 20264,123,40528,869
February 20263,847,08726,836
March 20264,716,25132,045
April 20264,749,64932,064
May 20265,734,46238,836

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

Busiest routes from FRA

  1. London Heathrow (LHR)1,410,787 passengers
  2. Berlin Brandenburg (BER)1,167,085 passengers
  3. Hamburg (HAM)1,083,271 passengers
  4. Vienna (VIE)1,033,819 passengers
  5. Munich (MUC)1,012,212 passengers
  6. Palma De Mallorca (PMI)950,350 passengers
  7. Dubai (DXB)940,081 passengers
  8. Madrid (MAD)905,304 passengers
  9. Istanbul (IST)842,741 passengers
  10. Barcelona (BCN)804,747 passengers

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

Questions and answers

How delayed are flights at Frankfurt (FRA)?
Flights leaving FRA left an average of 18.8 min late in the twelve months to July 2026, the 73rd least delayed of 88 busy European airports.
Which month has the most delays at FRA?
January 2026, when flights left an average of 22.7 minutes late; the lightest month was April 2026 (13.4 minutes).
Why are flights delayed at FRA?
EUROCONTROL records why air traffic flow restrictions delay arrivals. At FRA in the last year the biggest cause was weather (88% of those minutes), then air traffic control (7%).

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