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Stuttgart Airport (STR)

Stuttgart Airport (STR, EDDS) serves Stuttgart, Germany. Flights leaving STR left an average of 12.7 min late in the twelve months to July 2026, the 21st least delayed of 88 busy European airports. 9.6 million passengers used it in the twelve months to May 2026, most often flying to or from Palma de Mallorca.

Delays at STR

Average departure delay per flight: 12.7 min over the twelve months to July 2026. Delays were worst in August (16.1 min) and lightest in April (8.6 min).

Average departure delay per flight from STR, all causes, by month. Green is the least delayed month, orange the most.
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MonthAverage departure delayDepartures
August 202516.1 min4,398
September 202516.0 min4,463
October 202515.7 min4,347
November 20259.7 min3,194
December 202511.7 min3,064
January 202615.4 min2,690
February 202610.1 min2,643
March 20269.2 min3,247
April 20268.6 min3,413
May 202610.5 min4,089
June 202612.5 min4,025
July 202614.3 min3,990

Air traffic flow restrictions held 0.2% of arrivals at STR for more than 15 minutes in the twelve months to August 2026, most often because of air traffic control (50% 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 STR

9,649,579 passengers used STR in the twelve months to May 2026, on 76,270 commercial flights.

Passengers by month at STR, arrivals and departures together.
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MonthPassengersFlights
June 2025993,8277,827
July 2025965,6927,776
August 20251,114,3837,927
September 20251,038,1677,919
October 20251,000,5617,652
November 2025629,7135,418
December 2025615,3515,153
January 2026497,7594,430
February 2026483,5884,199
March 2026629,7205,310
April 2026758,2305,762
May 2026922,5886,897

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

Busiest routes from STR

  1. Palma De Mallorca (PMI)622,453 passengers
  2. Antalya (AYT)599,344 passengers
  3. Istanbul (SAW)447,013 passengers
  4. Istanbul (IST)373,088 passengers
  5. London Heathrow (LHR)366,846 passengers
  6. Barcelona (BCN)364,088 passengers
  7. Berlin Brandenburg (BER)337,920 passengers
  8. Hamburg (HAM)331,609 passengers
  9. Pristina (PRN)325,740 passengers
  10. Vienna (VIE)288,133 passengers

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

Questions and answers

How delayed are flights at Stuttgart (STR)?
Flights leaving STR left an average of 12.7 min late in the twelve months to July 2026, the 21st least delayed of 88 busy European airports.
Which month has the most delays at STR?
August 2025, when flights left an average of 16.1 minutes late; the lightest month was April 2026 (8.6 minutes).
Why are flights delayed at STR?
EUROCONTROL records why air traffic flow restrictions delay arrivals. At STR in the last year the biggest cause was air traffic control (50% of those minutes), then other causes (27%).

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