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Nuremberg Airport (NUE)

Nuremberg Airport (NUE, EDDN) serves Nuernberg, Germany. Flights leaving NUE left an average of 16.6 min late in the twelve months to July 2026, the 54th least delayed of 88 busy European airports. 4.6 million passengers used it in the twelve months to May 2026, most often flying to or from Antalya.

Delays at NUE

Average departure delay per flight: 16.6 min over the twelve months to July 2026. Delays were worst in January (24.3 min) and lightest in April (10.2 min).

Average departure delay per flight from NUE, all causes, by month. Green is the least delayed month, orange the most.
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MonthAverage departure delayDepartures
August 202518.8 min2,100
September 202520.9 min2,129
October 202518.8 min2,213
November 202513.5 min1,605
December 202516.3 min1,446
January 202624.3 min1,337
February 202615.1 min1,298
March 202614.7 min1,589
April 202610.2 min1,764
May 202613.6 min1,984
June 202615.2 min1,899
July 202617.2 min1,959

Air traffic flow restrictions held 0.0% of arrivals at NUE for more than 15 minutes in the twelve months to August 2026, most often because of other causes (100% 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 NUE

4,642,670 passengers used NUE in the twelve months to May 2026, on 34,047 commercial flights.

Passengers by month at NUE, arrivals and departures together.
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MonthPassengersFlights
June 2025473,9923,432
July 2025455,9223,302
August 2025526,0143,472
September 2025498,6973,461
October 2025506,4533,552
November 2025307,3182,464
December 2025289,2152,232
January 2026227,9241,973
February 2026228,7631,876
March 2026299,1112,350
April 2026384,7422,777
May 2026444,5193,156

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

Busiest routes from NUE

  1. Antalya (AYT)552,971 passengers
  2. Palma De Mallorca (PMI)437,134 passengers
  3. Frankfurt am Main (FRA)240,577 passengers
  4. Istanbul (IST)218,966 passengers
  5. Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS)212,766 passengers
  6. Hurghada (HRG)177,285 passengers
  7. London Stansted (STN)165,158 passengers
  8. Heraklion (HER)135,323 passengers
  9. Istanbul (SAW)115,390 passengers
  10. Paris (CDG)95,782 passengers

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

Questions and answers

How delayed are flights at Nuernberg (NUE)?
Flights leaving NUE left an average of 16.6 min late in the twelve months to July 2026, the 54th least delayed of 88 busy European airports.
Which month has the most delays at NUE?
January 2026, when flights left an average of 24.3 minutes late; the lightest month was April 2026 (10.2 minutes).
Why are flights delayed at NUE?
EUROCONTROL records why air traffic flow restrictions delay arrivals. At NUE in the last year the biggest cause was other causes (100% of those minutes).

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