SFOSan Francisco International
Longest standard wait 4 minutes
Live, updated 8:14 PM PT
Wait time history
SFO · Checkpoint A · Standard + PreCheck · last 12 hours · times in ET
When is it busiest?
Typical waits by day and hour, last 28 days · SFO Checkpoint A — Standard lane · times in ET
Lined up with the chart above — the last 12 hours, then the next 12. The marked line marks now.
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SFO Checkpoint A security wait times: what to expect
From October 12 to November 9 we logged 142,415 security checkpoint readings at SFO Checkpoint A. The standard lane averaged 3 minutes, and TSA PreCheck averaged under a minute. 93% of standard-lane readings were 10 minutes or less, and none were over half an hour.
That is in line with SFO as a whole.
When the line is longest
The standard line at Checkpoint A is longest around 9 PM, when it has averaged 7 minutes, and shortest around 3 AM, at under a minute. By day of the week, Friday has been the heaviest (4 minutes on average) and Monday the lightest (2 minutes).
| Time of day | Standard | PreCheck |
|---|---|---|
| Early morning (4–8 AM) | <1 min | <1 min |
| Morning (8 AM–noon) | 6 min | 1 min |
| Midday (noon–4 PM) | 5 min | 1 min |
| Evening (4–8 PM) |