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🇮🇸 Keflavik, Iceland

Keflavik International Airport (KEF)

Keflavik International Airport (KEF, BIKF) serves Keflavik, Iceland. Flights leaving KEF left an average of 15.8 min late in the twelve months to July 2026, the 48th least delayed of 88 busy European airports.

Delays at KEF

Average departure delay per flight: 15.8 min over the twelve months to July 2026. Delays were worst in March (26.7 min) and lightest in September (11.0 min).

Average departure delay per flight from KEF, all causes, by month. Green is the least delayed month, orange the most.
See the figures
MonthAverage departure delayDepartures
August 202515.5 min3,560
September 202511.0 min2,942
October 202520.1 min2,378
November 202511.8 min1,993
December 202511.3 min1,929
January 202617.2 min1,851
February 202614.6 min1,767
March 202626.7 min2,060
April 202614.7 min2,272
May 202614.8 min2,532
June 202613.3 min3,058
July 202619.5 min3,367

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.

Busiest routes from KEF

  1. Copenhagen Kastrup (CPH)556,908 passengers
  2. Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS)370,666 passengers
  3. Paris (CDG)353,520 passengers
  4. Frankfurt am Main (FRA)247,091 passengers
  5. Helsinki Vantaa (HEL)196,514 passengers
  6. Dublin (DUB)195,010 passengers
  7. Milano (MXP)170,979 passengers
  8. Stockholm-Arlanda (ARN)169,153 passengers
  9. Berlin Brandenburg (BER)164,911 passengers
  10. Tenerife South (TFS)148,427 passengers

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

Questions and answers

How delayed are flights at Keflavik (KEF)?
Flights leaving KEF left an average of 15.8 min late in the twelve months to July 2026, the 48th least delayed of 88 busy European airports.
Which month has the most delays at KEF?
March 2026, when flights left an average of 26.7 minutes late; the lightest month was September 2025 (11.0 minutes).

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