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Nice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)

Nice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE, LFMN) serves Nice, France. Flights leaving NCE left an average of 19.8 min late in the twelve months to July 2026, the 77th least delayed of 88 busy European airports. 15.2 million passengers used it in the twelve months to February 2026, most often flying to or from Paris.

Delays at NCE

Average departure delay per flight: 19.8 min over the twelve months to July 2026. Delays were worst in August (28.8 min) and lightest in November (9.6 min).

Average departure delay per flight from NCE, all causes, by month. Green is the least delayed month, orange the most.
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MonthAverage departure delayDepartures
August 202528.8 min8,729
September 202526.8 min7,648
October 202518.8 min6,468
November 20259.6 min4,374
December 202512.4 min4,660
January 202616.5 min4,056
February 202611.7 min3,944
March 202610.2 min5,122
April 202611.3 min6,309
May 202615.0 min7,671
June 202626.6 min8,811
July 202628.5 min9,392

Air traffic flow restrictions held 7.7% of arrivals at NCE for more than 15 minutes in the twelve months to August 2026, most often because of air traffic control (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 NCE

15,221,220 passengers used NCE in the twelve months to February 2026, on 142,643 commercial flights.

Passengers by month at NCE, arrivals and departures together.
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MonthPassengersFlights
March 2025975,8169,444
April 20251,303,06911,861
May 20251,495,74814,913
June 20251,636,38315,026
July 20251,772,98516,934
August 20251,797,60716,471
September 20251,530,01114,504
October 20251,371,25912,121
November 2025844,8018,093
December 2025920,8968,632
January 2026754,5537,351
February 2026818,0927,293

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

Busiest routes from NCE

  1. Paris (CDG)1,106,876 passengers
  2. London Heathrow (LHR)684,043 passengers
  3. London Gatwick (LGW)516,896 passengers
  4. Rome (FCO)482,632 passengers
  5. Geneva Cointrin (GVA)452,124 passengers
  6. Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS)451,951 passengers
  7. Barcelona (BCN)372,128 passengers
  8. Lille-Lesquin (LIL)335,113 passengers
  9. Copenhagen Kastrup (CPH)316,642 passengers
  10. Brussels (BRU)286,469 passengers

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

Questions and answers

How delayed are flights at Nice (NCE)?
Flights leaving NCE left an average of 19.8 min late in the twelve months to July 2026, the 77th least delayed of 88 busy European airports.
Which month has the most delays at NCE?
August 2025, when flights left an average of 28.8 minutes late; the lightest month was November 2025 (9.6 minutes).
Why are flights delayed at NCE?
EUROCONTROL records why air traffic flow restrictions delay arrivals. At NCE in the last year the biggest cause was air traffic control (88% of those minutes), then weather (10%).

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