TripStow
🇩🇪 Hamburg, Germany

Hamburg Airport (HAM)

Hamburg Airport (HAM, EDDH) serves Hamburg, Germany. Flights leaving HAM left an average of 14.9 min late in the twelve months to July 2026, the 41st least delayed of 88 busy European airports. 14.9 million passengers used it in the twelve months to May 2026, most often flying to or from Munich.

Delays at HAM

Average departure delay per flight: 14.9 min over the twelve months to July 2026. Delays were worst in January (28.3 min) and lightest in March (8.9 min).

Average departure delay per flight from HAM, all causes, by month. Green is the least delayed month, orange the most.
See the figures
MonthAverage departure delayDepartures
August 202516.1 min5,552
September 202516.9 min5,689
October 202517.3 min5,953
November 202511.0 min4,567
December 202514.0 min4,333
January 202628.3 min3,787
February 202615.2 min3,904
March 20268.9 min4,810
April 202610.4 min4,883
May 202611.3 min5,470
June 202616.2 min5,259
July 202615.2 min5,604

Air traffic flow restrictions held 0.2% of arrivals at HAM for more than 15 minutes in the twelve months to August 2026, most often because of airport capacity (78% 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 HAM

14,882,758 passengers used HAM in the twelve months to May 2026, on 110,709 commercial flights.

Passengers by month at HAM, arrivals and departures together.
See the figures
MonthPassengersFlights
June 20251,345,00310,170
July 20251,453,11210,484
August 20251,482,74110,416
September 20251,458,56910,424
October 20251,561,40910,888
November 20251,071,8198,291
December 20251,049,7887,990
January 2026853,6137,039
February 2026902,2687,149
March 20261,150,4408,782
April 20261,187,7418,965
May 20261,366,25510,111

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

Busiest routes from HAM

  1. Munich (MUC)1,281,439 passengers
  2. Frankfurt am Main (FRA)1,083,271 passengers
  3. Palma De Mallorca (PMI)967,394 passengers
  4. Zurich (ZRH)585,980 passengers
  5. London Heathrow (LHR)581,731 passengers
  6. Antalya (AYT)559,360 passengers
  7. Vienna (VIE)559,287 passengers
  8. Dubai (DXB)444,412 passengers
  9. Istanbul (IST)443,119 passengers
  10. Paris (CDG)394,705 passengers

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

Questions and answers

How delayed are flights at Hamburg (HAM)?
Flights leaving HAM left an average of 14.9 min late in the twelve months to July 2026, the 41st least delayed of 88 busy European airports.
Which month has the most delays at HAM?
January 2026, when flights left an average of 28.3 minutes late; the lightest month was March 2026 (8.9 minutes).
Why are flights delayed at HAM?
EUROCONTROL records why air traffic flow restrictions delay arrivals. At HAM in the last year the biggest cause was airport capacity (78% of those minutes), then weather (14%).

Flying from HAM soon?

Forward your booking and TripStow builds your trip, reminds you when check-in opens and shows how your flight usually runs. Free.

Start free