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Valencia Airport (VLC)

Valencia Airport (VLC, LEVC) serves Valencia, Spain. Flights leaving VLC left an average of 16.8 min late in the twelve months to July 2026, the 56th least delayed of 88 busy European airports. 11.9 million passengers used it in the twelve months to March 2026, most often flying to or from Palma de Mallorca.

Delays at VLC

Average departure delay per flight: 16.8 min over the twelve months to July 2026. Delays were worst in July (23.7 min) and lightest in March (10.2 min).

Average departure delay per flight from VLC, all causes, by month. Green is the least delayed month, orange the most.
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MonthAverage departure delayDepartures
August 202519.4 min4,080
September 202521.1 min3,873
October 202518.7 min3,969
November 202511.9 min3,355
December 202515.1 min3,375
January 202615.8 min2,923
February 202613.5 min2,928
March 202610.2 min3,615
April 202612.6 min4,068
May 202615.7 min4,160
June 202620.1 min4,134
July 202623.7 min4,410

Air traffic flow restrictions held 0.0% of arrivals at VLC for more than 15 minutes in the twelve months to August 2026, most often because of other causes (63% 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 VLC

11,934,998 passengers used VLC in the twelve months to March 2026, on 80,570 commercial flights.

Passengers by month at VLC, arrivals and departures together.
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MonthPassengersFlights
April 20251,037,2137,061
May 20251,052,5157,224
June 20251,078,1117,119
July 20251,129,4497,420
August 20251,177,8737,465
September 20251,068,2297,103
October 20251,088,9827,343
November 2025869,2416,169
December 2025892,0706,285
January 2026753,4345,328
February 2026782,8245,361
March 20261,005,0576,692

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

Busiest routes from VLC

  1. Palma De Mallorca (PMI)718,467 passengers
  2. Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS)482,039 passengers
  3. Rome (FCO)435,708 passengers
  4. Paris-Orly (ORY)406,819 passengers
  5. Madrid (MAD)379,247 passengers
  6. Ibiza (IBZ)348,973 passengers
  7. Sevilla (SVQ)292,949 passengers
  8. London Gatwick (LGW)290,217 passengers
  9. Zurich (ZRH)259,911 passengers
  10. Eindhoven (EIN)253,353 passengers

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

Questions and answers

How delayed are flights at Valencia (VLC)?
Flights leaving VLC left an average of 16.8 min late in the twelve months to July 2026, the 56th least delayed of 88 busy European airports.
Which month has the most delays at VLC?
July 2026, when flights left an average of 23.7 minutes late; the lightest month was March 2026 (10.2 minutes).
Why are flights delayed at VLC?
EUROCONTROL records why air traffic flow restrictions delay arrivals. At VLC in the last year the biggest cause was other causes (63% of those minutes), then weather (37%).

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