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🇪🇸 Tenerife, Spain

Tenerife Norte Airport (TFN)

Tenerife Norte Airport (TFN, GCXO) serves Tenerife, Spain. Flights leaving TFN left an average of 10.6 min late in the twelve months to July 2026, the 12th least delayed of 88 busy European airports. 7.2 million passengers used it in the twelve months to March 2026, most often flying to or from Madrid.

Delays at TFN

Average departure delay per flight: 10.6 min over the twelve months to July 2026. Delays were worst in December (13.1 min) and lightest in May (9.4 min).

Average departure delay per flight from TFN, all causes, by month. Green is the least delayed month, orange the most.
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MonthAverage departure delayDepartures
August 202510.9 min3,577
September 20259.9 min3,497
October 202511.4 min3,476
November 202510.2 min3,309
December 202513.1 min3,405
January 20269.9 min3,119
February 20269.9 min3,056
March 202611.2 min3,423
April 202611.0 min3,404
May 20269.4 min3,627
June 202610.2 min3,551
July 202610.3 min3,822

Air traffic flow restrictions held 0.7% of arrivals at TFN for more than 15 minutes in the twelve months to August 2026, most often because of weather (66% 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 TFN

7,203,134 passengers used TFN in the twelve months to March 2026, on 79,282 commercial flights.

Passengers by month at TFN, arrivals and departures together.
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MonthPassengersFlights
April 2025593,2776,430
May 2025613,1766,685
June 2025620,1926,501
July 2025671,9467,048
August 2025686,2237,021
September 2025632,6906,838
October 2025621,9346,815
November 2025565,7146,495
December 2025579,3956,686
January 2026528,1746,119
February 2026518,9845,952
March 2026571,4296,692

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

Busiest routes from TFN

  1. Madrid (MAD)1,785,863 passengers
  2. Gran Canaria (LPA)974,985 passengers
  3. Santa Cruz De La Palma (SPC)734,233 passengers
  4. Barcelona (BCN)627,934 passengers
  5. Arrecife (ACE)427,136 passengers
  6. Sevilla (SVQ)340,329 passengers
  7. Fuerteventura (FUE)335,517 passengers
  8. Hierro (VDE)249,797 passengers
  9. Malaga (AGP)246,006 passengers
  10. Bilbao (BIO)218,447 passengers

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

Questions and answers

How delayed are flights at Tenerife (TFN)?
Flights leaving TFN left an average of 10.6 min late in the twelve months to July 2026, the 12th least delayed of 88 busy European airports.
Which month has the most delays at TFN?
December 2025, when flights left an average of 13.1 minutes late; the lightest month was May 2026 (9.4 minutes).
Why are flights delayed at TFN?
EUROCONTROL records why air traffic flow restrictions delay arrivals. At TFN in the last year the biggest cause was weather (66% of those minutes), then air traffic control (32%).

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