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Boston (BOS) TSA wait times

Boston Logan International Airport schedules 396 departures on an average day, and pushes up to 35 of them in a single hour. The checkpoint feels that: expect roughly 20 to 35 minutes in the standard lanes at the Monday 6 am peak, and closer to 6 minutes at Saturday 7 pm.

Security now Modelled

17min

Up 1 min since 9 am.

Standard line. It usually runs 10 to 25 minutes at this hour on a Monday.

The worst it gets at BOS is about 26 min, Monday at 6 am. The quietest useful hour is Saturday at 7 pm, about 6 min.

Tell us your flight below and we will work out when to leave.

A typical Monday.

That 17 is the standard line

Standard 17min

the default
PreCheck 6min

saves 11
CLEAR 4min

saves 13

What each line is

When should you leave?

Worked from the wait actually running at this checkpoint at the hour you will be here, not a fixed buffer.

Example. For a 6:00 PM domestic flight today, leave home about 4:32 PM. That is 30 min driving, 14 min to park, about 17 min at security when you reach it around 5:16 PM, 12 min to walk to the gate and 15 min spare before boarding: 88 minutes door to gate. Change any of it below for your own flight.

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Which security line?

The three ways through the checkpoint at this airport, what each is running right now, and what the faster ones save you.

Standard 17min

Open to everyone. Usually 10 to 25.
PreCheck 6min

Saves 11 min. TSA pre-approved travellers. Usually 5 to 10.
CLEAR 4min

Saves 13 min. Biometric check, then to the front. Usually 5 to 10.

PreCheck and CLEAR are separate programmes. PreCheck is a lighter screening you qualify for; CLEAR verifies who you are and walks you to the front of whichever line you are already entitled to use.

Is PreCheck worth it for you? ›

Another airport nearby?

Airports within driving distance of BOS, and the worst each one gets in its own busiest hour.

Worcester (ORH) 9min peak

22 miles away. 2 flights a day.
Manchester (MHT) 9min peak

23 miles away. 18 flights a day.
Providence (PVD) 13min peak

24 miles away. 42 flights a day.
Portsmouth (PSM) 9min peak

25 miles away. 2 flights a day.
Hyannis (HYA) 9min peak

30 miles away. 4 flights a day.

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Airlines at BOS

Which airline you are flying decides your terminal and checkpoint. This is the share of BOS's departures each one runs, from the published schedule.

JetBlue 27%
Republic Airways regional 24%
Delta 19%
American 12%
United 9%
Southwest 5%
Alaska 2%
Envoy Air regional 1%

Regional carriers (SkyWest, Envoy, PSA, Republic) fly these routes under the mainline brands, so a SkyWest flight shows on your ticket as Delta, United, American or Alaska.

For the terminal your gate is in, check your airline's boarding pass or the airport's official map. We do not model terminal-by-terminal waits yet, and we will not guess at them.

Is another time better?

The checkpoint is busiest around 6 am today, at about 26 min. Fill in your flight above to see where your own trip lands.

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The dark bar is now.

Busiest hours at BOS

Every block is one hour of one weekday at BOS, shaded by how much of the airport's own peak load the checkpoint is carrying. This is the measured half of the page: it comes from the published flight schedule, not from an estimate.

Day	12a	1a	2a	3a	4a	5a	6a	7a	8a	9a	10a	11a	12p	1p	2p	3p	4p	5p	6p	7p	8p	9p	10p	11p
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Darker means a heavier checkpoint load. Built from 36,854 scheduled departures from BOS across three months of federal on-time records.

Hour by hour, Monday

Expected standard-lane wait at BOS on a typical Monday. PreCheck and CLEAR run shorter.
Hour	Departures	Standard	PreCheck
2 am	2	5–10 min	3 min
3 am	9	5–10 min	3 min
4 am	22	10–20 min	5 min
5 am	33	15–35 min	8 min
6 am	35	20–35 min	9 min
7 am	32	15–30 min	8 min
8 am	28	15–30 min	7 min
9 am	24	10–25 min	6 min
10 am	22	10–20 min	5 min
11 am	21	10–20 min	5 min
noon	21	10–20 min	5 min
1 pm	23	10–25 min	5 min
2 pm	26	10–25 min	6 min
3 pm	26	10–25 min	6 min
4 pm	26	10–25 min	6 min
5 pm	25	10–25 min	6 min
6 pm	23	10–20 min	5 min
7 pm	16	5–15 min	4 min
8 pm	6	5–10 min	3 min
9 pm	1	5–10 min	3 min

Questions people ask about BOS

How early should I get to BOS?

For a domestic flight out of Boston, plan to be inside the terminal about an hour before departure, and about an hour and a half for an international one. That covers a 20 to 35 minute checkpoint queue at the Monday peak plus the walk to the gate. Outside the peak you can safely trim it; the calculator above works it out from your actual departure time.

What is the busiest time at BOS security?

Monday around 6 am, when 35 departures' worth of passengers are converging on the checkpoint at once. The calmest hour with real traffic is Saturday at 7 pm, at roughly 6 minutes.

Is TSA PreCheck worth it at BOS?

At the Monday peak it turns a 20 to 35 minute queue into something closer to 9 minutes. Over a five year membership that is worth it if you fly more than about three round trips a year through an airport this busy. The trusted traveller calculator prices it against your own flying.

When does security open at BOS?

Boston Logan International Airport does not publish checkpoint opening hours in any national feed, so we will not invent them. What the schedule does show is that the first departures leave around 2 am, and checkpoints generally open about two hours before the first flight of the day.

Flight schedule data: U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, May 2026, July 2025 and December 2025. Wait minutes are modelled, not measured. Here is exactly how. Page rebuilt 24 August 2026.