We crunched the wait time data across all 152 airports we track for July 2026 to see which were quickest to get through — and which to brace yourself for. Rankings are based on the average wait during the busy daytime hours.
The standout was Munich (MUC), with the shortest average wait of 0 minutes. At the other end, MCO Customs was the most testing, averaging 29 minutes.
The Full Ranking
- #1 Munich — 0 min average, peaking at 120 min
- #2 Palma de Mallorca — 1 min average, peaking at 120 min
- #3 Jacksonville Airport — 2 min average, peaking at 31 min
- #4 Rome Fiumicino — 2 min average, peaking at 120 min
- #5 Istanbul — 2 min average, peaking at 9 min
- #6 Catania Fontanarossa — 2 min average, peaking at 15 min
- #7 San Antonio — 2 min average, peaking at 48 min
- #8 Gran Canaria — 2 min average, peaking at 120 min
- #9 Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG) — 2 min average, peaking at 120 min
- #10 Munich Passport Control — 2 min average, peaking at 120 min
- #11 Kempegowda — 2 min average, peaking at 26 min
- #12 Budapest — 3 min average, peaking at 20 min
- #13 Cologne/Bonn — 3 min average, peaking at 120 min
- #14 Sydney Airport — 3 min average, peaking at 90 min
- #15 Narita International Airport — 3 min average, peaking at 15 min
- #16 Jeju — 3 min average, peaking at 28 min
- #17 London Heathrow — 3 min average, peaking at 120 min
- #18 Toulouse Blagnac — 3 min average, peaking at 120 min
- #19 Indira Gandhi International Airport — 3 min average, peaking at 10 min
- #20 Paris Orly Airport — 3 min average, peaking at 120 min
- #21 Orly Passport Control — 3 min average, peaking at 70 min
- #22 Las Vegas — 3 min average, peaking at 37 min
- #23 Ottawa — 3 min average, peaking at 25 min
- #24 BWI Airport — 3 min average, peaking at 51 min
- #25 Miami International — 4 min average, peaking at 177 min
- #26 Manchester (MAN) — 4 min average, peaking at 120 min
- #27 Gimpo — 4 min average, peaking at 12 min
- #28 London City — 4 min average, peaking at 5 min
- #29 Edmonton — 4 min average, peaking at 120 min
- #30 Vancouver — 4 min average, peaking at 35 min
- #31 Calgary — 4 min average, peaking at 50 min
- #32 Madrid Barajas — 4 min average, peaking at 120 min
- #33 Los Angeles — 4 min average, peaking at 25 min
- #34 New York LaGuardia Airport — 4 min average, peaking at 70 min
- #35 Toronto Pearson — 4 min average, peaking at 35 min
- #36 Düsseldorf — 4 min average, peaking at 40 min
- #37 Dallas Forth Worth — 4 min average, peaking at 61 min
- #38 Kansas City — 4 min average, peaking at 17 min
- #39 Stockholm — 4 min average, peaking at 120 min
- #40 St. Louis Lambert International Airport — 5 min average, peaking at 28 min
- #41 Cleveland — 5 min average, peaking at 20 min
- #42 Zurich — 5 min average, peaking at 120 min
- #43 Reagan National Airport — 5 min average, peaking at 24 min
- #44 Montréal–Trudeau — 5 min average, peaking at 45 min
- #45 Orlando Airport — 5 min average, peaking at 43 min
- #46 Houston Hobby Airport — 5 min average, peaking at 60 min
- #47 Philadelphia — 5 min average, peaking at 29 min
- #48 Copenhagen — 6 min average, peaking at 31 min
- #49 Frankfurt — 6 min average, peaking at 120 min
- #50 Amsterdam Schiphol — 6 min average, peaking at 90 min
- #51 Barcelona Airport — 6 min average, peaking at 120 min
- #52 Zurich Passport Control — 6 min average, peaking at 60 min
- #53 Detroit Metropolitan — 6 min average, peaking at 31 min
- #54 Eindhoven Airport — 6 min average, peaking at 19 min
- #55 Charlotte Douglas — 6 min average, peaking at 44 min
- #56 Washington Dulles — 6 min average, peaking at 25 min
- #57 Lyon Airport — 6 min average, peaking at 30 min
- #58 Denver Airport — 6 min average, peaking at 35 min
- #59 Brussels — 6 min average, peaking at 90 min
- #60 Berlin Brandenburg — 6 min average, peaking at 60 min
- #61 Göteborg Landvetter — 6 min average, peaking at 60 min
- #62 Marseille Provence — 6 min average, peaking at 120 min
- #63 Chicago Midway — 6 min average, peaking at 20 min
- #64 Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport — 7 min average, peaking at 31 min
- #65 Hamburg — 7 min average, peaking at 60 min
- #66 Stuttgart Airport — 7 min average, peaking at 30 min
- #67 Auckland Airport — 7 min average, peaking at 30 min
- #68 Portland — 7 min average, peaking at 41 min
- #69 Edinburgh — 7 min average, peaking at 120 min
- #70 Frankfurt Passport Control — 7 min average, peaking at 90 min
- #71 Atlanta Airport (ATL) — 7 min average, peaking at 90 min
- #72 San Jose International Airport — 7 min average, peaking at 18 min
- #73 Chicago ORD — 7 min average, peaking at 7071 min
- #74 Southwest Florida — 7 min average, peaking at 30 min
- #75 Houston George Bush (IAH) — 7 min average, peaking at 32 min
- #76 Alicante — 8 min average, peaking at 120 min
- #77 Minneapolis-Saint Paul — 8 min average, peaking at 40 min
- #78 Phoenix Sky Harbor — 8 min average, peaking at 28 min
- #79 Bordeaux Airport — 8 min average, peaking at 19 min
- #80 Helsinki Airport — 8 min average, peaking at 30 min
- #81 Oakland International Airport — 8 min average, peaking at 90 min
- #82 Rotterdam The Hague Airport — 8 min average, peaking at 25 min
- #83 Seattle-Tacoma — 9 min average, peaking at 60 min
- #84 ATL Customs — 9 min average, peaking at 120 min
- #85 San Francisco — 9 min average, peaking at 19 min
- #86 John Wayne — 9 min average, peaking at 18 min
- #87 Singapore Changi Airport — 9 min average, peaking at 20 min
- #88 New York Newark — 9 min average, peaking at 151 min
- #89 Suvarnabhumi Airport — 10 min average, peaking at 90 min
- #90 Raleigh-Durham — 10 min average, peaking at 50 min
- #91 Dublin — 10 min average, peaking at 31 min
- #92 Boston Logan — 10 min average, peaking at 15 min
- #93 Malaga — 10 min average, peaking at 120 min
- #94 Nashville — 10 min average, peaking at 20 min
- #95 Gdansk Lech Walesa Airport — 11 min average, peaking at 28 min
- #96 Riga Airport — 11 min average, peaking at 28 min
- #97 CDG Passport Control — 11 min average, peaking at 120 min
- #98 El Dorado — 11 min average, peaking at 75 min
- #99 Denver Customs — 11 min average, peaking at 49 min
- #100 Auckland Customs — 11 min average, peaking at 120 min
- #101 Glasgow Airport — 12 min average, peaking at 120 min
- #102 Kraków — 12 min average, peaking at 120 min
- #103 Heathrow Passport Control — 12 min average, peaking at 120 min
- #104 Bologna — 12 min average, peaking at 50 min
- #105 Austin Customs — 12 min average, peaking at 41 min
- #106 CLT Customs — 12 min average, peaking at 61 min
- #107 Dubai International Airport — 13 min average, peaking at 15 min
- #108 New York JFK — 13 min average, peaking at 85 min
- #109 Dallas Love Field Airport — 13 min average, peaking at 35 min
- #110 Salt Lake City — 13 min average, peaking at 33 min
- #111 Austin–Bergstrom International Airport — 13 min average, peaking at 34 min
- #112 Sacramento — 13 min average, peaking at 56 min
- #113 Indianapolis — 13 min average, peaking at 39 min
- #114 Birmingham Airport (BHX) — 14 min average, peaking at 120 min
- #115 Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood — 15 min average, peaking at 60 min
- #116 Tokyo International Airport — 15 min average, peaking at 20 min
- #117 Incheon International Airport — 15 min average, peaking at 20 min
- #118 Malta International Airport — 15 min average, peaking at 20 min
- #119 Warsaw Chopin Airport — 15 min average, peaking at 60 min
- #120 Nice Côte d’Azur Airport — 15 min average, peaking at 30 min
- #121 Naples International Airport — 15 min average, peaking at 60 min
- #122 Prague Airport — 15 min average, peaking at 90 min
- #123 Milan Bergamo Airport — 15 min average, peaking at 90 min
- #124 London Gatwick — 15 min average, peaking at 120 min
- #125 Vilnius — 15 min average, peaking at 120 min
- #126 Milan Malpensa Airport — 15 min average, peaking at 120 min
- #127 Porto Airport — 15 min average, peaking at 120 min
- #128 London Luton Airport — 15 min average, peaking at 90 min
- #129 ORD Immigration — 16 min average, peaking at 68 min
- #130 Bristol Airport — 16 min average, peaking at 120 min
- #131 EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg — 16 min average, peaking at 40 min
- #132 Daniel K. Inouye International Airport — 16 min average, peaking at 90 min
- #133 DFW Customs — 16 min average, peaking at 73 min
- #134 Amsterdam Passport — 16 min average, peaking at 110 min
- #135 Tampa — 17 min average, peaking at 34 min
- #136 LAX Customs — 17 min average, peaking at 83 min
- #137 Istanbul Immigration — 18 min average, peaking at 136 min
- #138 Boston Customs — 19 min average, peaking at 58 min
- #139 Vienna International Airport — 20 min average, peaking at 60 min
- #140 Keflavik — 20 min average, peaking at 25 min
- #141 Melbourne Airport — 20 min average, peaking at 25 min
- #142 Brisbane Airport — 20 min average, peaking at 30 min
- #143 Milan Linate Airport — 20 min average, peaking at 60 min
- #144 Venice Marco Polo Airport — 20 min average, peaking at 120 min
- #145 Athens International Airport — 20 min average, peaking at 90 min
- #146 JFK Customs — 20 min average, peaking at 129 min
- #147 San Diego — 21 min average, peaking at 39 min
- #148 Leeds Bradford Airport — 21 min average, peaking at 120 min
- #149 Lisbon — 21 min average, peaking at 120 min
- #150 London Stansted Airport — 22 min average, peaking at 120 min
- #151 Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport — 23 min average, peaking at 60 min
- #152 MCO Customs — 29 min average, peaking at 108 min
For live wait times at any of these airports, check their pages on Qsensor before you travel.