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Zagreb Airport (ZAG)

Zagreb Airport (ZAG, LDZA) serves Zagreb, Croatia. Flights leaving ZAG left an average of 12.1 min late in the twelve months to July 2026, the 16th least delayed of 88 busy European airports. 4.8 million passengers used it in the twelve months to July 2026, most often flying to or from Frankfurt.

Delays at ZAG

Average departure delay per flight: 12.1 min over the twelve months to July 2026. Delays were worst in January (16.9 min) and lightest in April (6.8 min).

Average departure delay per flight from ZAG, all causes, by month. Green is the least delayed month, orange the most.
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MonthAverage departure delayDepartures
August 202516.1 min2,415
September 202513.8 min2,403
October 202511.9 min2,388
November 20259.7 min1,890
December 202512.6 min1,883
January 202616.9 min1,787
February 20268.7 min1,625
March 20268.4 min1,939
April 20266.8 min2,155
May 202612.7 min2,280
June 202612.4 min2,236
July 202613.8 min2,340

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

4,751,458 passengers used ZAG in the twelve months to July 2026, on 43,827 commercial flights, up 6% on the twelve months before.

Passengers by month at ZAG, arrivals and departures together.
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MonthPassengersFlights
August 2025487,7254,346
September 2025466,3904,157
October 2025457,1484,179
November 2025337,8513,259
December 2025332,7603,266
January 2026294,6853,082
February 2026279,8602,761
March 2026336,2323,202
April 2026412,2773,694
May 2026445,9993,928
June 2026435,6483,857
July 2026464,8834,096

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

Busiest routes from ZAG

  1. Frankfurt am Main (FRA)295,469 passengers
  2. Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS)232,553 passengers
  3. Istanbul (IST)219,818 passengers
  4. Dubrovnik (DBV)216,579 passengers
  5. Munich (MUC)215,113 passengers
  6. Split (SPU)159,963 passengers
  7. Paris (CDG)154,428 passengers
  8. London Stansted (STN)148,863 passengers
  9. Doha (DOH)120,456 passengers
  10. Vienna (VIE)119,395 passengers

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

Questions and answers

How delayed are flights at Zagreb (ZAG)?
Flights leaving ZAG left an average of 12.1 min late in the twelve months to July 2026, the 16th least delayed of 88 busy European airports.
Which month has the most delays at ZAG?
January 2026, when flights left an average of 16.9 minutes late; the lightest month was April 2026 (6.8 minutes).
Why are flights delayed at ZAG?
EUROCONTROL records why air traffic flow restrictions delay arrivals. At ZAG in the last year the biggest cause was weather (100% of those minutes).

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