SFOSan Francisco International
Longest standard wait 4 minutes
Live, updated 8:14 PM PT
Wait time history
SFO · Checkpoint D · Standard + PreCheck · last 12 hours · times in ET
When is it busiest?
Typical waits by day and hour, last 28 days · SFO Checkpoint D — 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 D security wait times: what to expect
From October 12 to November 9 we logged 142,356 security checkpoint readings at SFO Checkpoint D. The standard lane averaged 2 minutes, and TSA PreCheck averaged 1 minute. 100% 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 D is longest around 10 AM, when it has averaged 3 minutes, and shortest around 1 AM, at under a minute. By day of the week, Sunday has been the heaviest (2 minutes on average) and Saturday the lightest (1 minute).
| Time of day | Standard | PreCheck |
|---|---|---|
| Early morning (4–8 AM) | 2 min | 2 min |
| Morning (8 AM–noon) | 3 min | 2 min |
| Midday (noon–4 PM) | 2 min | 1 min |
| Evening (4–8 PM) |