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Zürich Airport (ZRH)

Zürich Airport (ZRH, LSZH) serves Zurich, Switzerland. Flights leaving ZRH left an average of 16.9 min late in the twelve months to July 2026, the 58th least delayed of 88 busy European airports.

Delays at ZRH

Average departure delay per flight: 16.9 min over the twelve months to July 2026. Delays were worst in July (21.2 min) and lightest in March (12.1 min).

Average departure delay per flight from ZRH, all causes, by month. Green is the least delayed month, orange the most.
See the figures
MonthAverage departure delayDepartures
August 202519.1 min12,488
September 202519.7 min12,099
October 202518.6 min12,246
November 202513.0 min10,015
December 202515.0 min10,536
January 202620.4 min9,906
February 202613.8 min9,293
March 202612.1 min10,655
April 202612.9 min11,654
May 202614.7 min12,536
June 202619.7 min12,307
July 202621.2 min13,057

Air traffic flow restrictions held 5.5% of arrivals at ZRH for more than 15 minutes in the twelve months to August 2026, most often because of other causes (41% 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.

Busiest routes from ZRH

  1. Berlin Brandenburg (BER)861,501 passengers
  2. Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS)816,734 passengers
  3. Madrid (MAD)760,806 passengers
  4. Vienna (VIE)750,117 passengers
  5. Barcelona (BCN)729,601 passengers
  6. Palma De Mallorca (PMI)725,871 passengers
  7. Lisbon (LIS)652,212 passengers
  8. Frankfurt am Main (FRA)610,719 passengers
  9. Hamburg (HAM)585,980 passengers
  10. Paris (CDG)559,861 passengers

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

Questions and answers

How delayed are flights at Zurich (ZRH)?
Flights leaving ZRH left an average of 16.9 min late in the twelve months to July 2026, the 58th least delayed of 88 busy European airports.
Which month has the most delays at ZRH?
July 2026, when flights left an average of 21.2 minutes late; the lightest month was March 2026 (12.1 minutes).
Why are flights delayed at ZRH?
EUROCONTROL records why air traffic flow restrictions delay arrivals. At ZRH in the last year the biggest cause was other causes (41% of those minutes), then weather (35%).

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