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TSA wait times at California airports
Security queues at the 23 California airports with scheduled airline service, each figure worked out from that airport's own departure schedule.
Median wait, standard lanes
8 min
Half of these airports are quicker than this at the hour they are in now.
Longest now
20 min
San Diego (SAN)
Shortest now
4 min
Stockton (SCK)
Over 20 minutes
0
of 23 airports
- Every California airportUsual at this hour 23 airports
- San Diego (SAN) 15 to 30 20 min
- Los Angeles (LAX) 15 to 25 18 min
- San Francisco (SFO) 15 to 25 18 min
- Sacramento (SMF) 10 to 20 14 min
- Santa Ana (SNA) 10 to 20 14 min
- Burbank (BUR) 10 to 20 14 min
- San Jose (SJC) 10 to 20 12 min
- Palm Springs (PSP) 10 to 15 11 min
- Oakland (OAK) 5 to 15 10 min
- Ontario (ONT) 5 to 15 8 min
- Long Beach (LGB) 5 to 15 8 min
- Fresno (FAT) 5 to 15 8 min
- Santa Rosa (STS) 5 to 15 8 min
- Redding (RDD) 5 to 15 8 min
- Bishop (BIH) 5 to 15 8 min
- Santa Barbara (SBA) 5 to 10 7 min
- San Luis Obispo (SBP) 5 to 10 6 min
- Monterey (MRY) 5 to 10 6 min
- Arcata/Eureka (ACV) 5 to 10 6 min
- Carlsbad (CLD) 5 to 10 6 min
- Bakersfield (BFL) 5 to 10 5 min
- Stockton (SCK) 5 to 10 4 min
- Santa Maria (SMX) 5 to 10 4 min
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Every figure here is modelled from the published departure schedule, not measured: there is no national feed of checkpoint waits. See /method/.