ABQAlbuquerque Sunport
When is TSA security busiest at ABQ?
TSA's counts over 175 days, 22 March to 24 October 2026, put ABQ's busiest hour at 5 am, with the counts falling away after noon. Albuquerque Sunport (ABQ) has no live wait time on waittimes.io, so this page carries no number for right now.
How busy ABQ security usually is
People screened per hour at each checkpoint, averaged over 175 days of TSA counts, 22 March to 24 October 2026. Green is that checkpoint's quiet hours, red its peak. Find your checkpoint and look along the row for green.
| Checkpoint | 4a | 6a | 8 am, now | 10a | 12p | 2p | 4p | 6p | 8p | 10p | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Checkpoint for A/B Gates |
Tap a cell for its count.
Quiet for this checkpointIts busiest hourclosed or no count
On the counted days ABQ screened passengers from 3 am to 6 pm. Across ABQ the busiest hour is 5 am and the counts fall away after noon. Checkpoint for A/B Gates peaks at 5 am. TSA counts people, not minutes, so this shows when a checkpoint is loaded, not how long you will stand in it.
Which day ABQ is busiest
Thursday is ABQ's busiest day of the week, about 9,100 people screened on an average one, 33 percent more than Saturday, the quietest.
| Rank | Day | People a day | Days counted |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thursday | 9,075 | 23 |
| 2 | Friday | 8,909 | 23 |
| 3 | Sunday | 8,560 | 23 |
| 4 | Monday | 8,065 | 23 |
| 5 | Wednesday | 7,702 | 25 |
| 6 | Tuesday | 6,910 | 23 |
| 7 | Saturday | 6,803 | 23 |
People screened at ABQ on an average day of each kind, from TSA's counts, 22 March to 24 October 2026, with the days around each holiday left out.
Which month ABQ is busiest
October was ABQ's busiest month in TSA's counts, about 9,800 people a day, 35 percent more than April, the quietest. It is also the latest month counted.
| Rank | Month | People a day | Days counted |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October | 9,801 | 17 |
| 2 | June | 8,497 | 13 |
| 3 | July | 8,286 | 13 |
| 4 | May | 8,235 | 31 |
| 5 | September | 8,112 | 30 |
| 6 | March | 7,711 | 10 |
| 7 | August | 7,377 | 31 |
| 8 | April | 7,277 | 30 |
People screened at ABQ on an average day of each month, holidays included, from TSA's counts, 22 March to 24 October 2026. March, June, July, and October rest on 10, 13, 13, and 17 counted days.
How ABQ ran over the holidays
Each day around a holiday against the same day of the week in the three weeks either side, so the season does not read as the holiday. Thanksgiving and Christmas 2026 are not in TSA's counts yet; they run to 24 October 2026.
Memorial Day 2026
Thursday 21 to Tuesday 26 May: the busiest day was Thursday 21 May, 10,058 people, 10 percent above the Thursdays around it.
Labor Day 2026
Thursday 3 to Tuesday 8 September: the busiest day was Monday 7 September, 9,436 people, 19 percent above the Mondays around it. Sunday 6 September was the lightest for its day of the week, 23 percent below the Sundays around it.
Questions people ask
How busy is ABQ airport today?
Albuquerque Sunport has no live wait time on waittimes.io, so there is no number for today. By TSA's counts 8 am is usually a middling hour at ABQ, about 400 people an hour across its checkpoints against 990 at the 5 am peak. On a normal day ABQ screens about 8,000 people, 62nd of the 432 airports TSA counts; its largest checkpoint is Checkpoint for A/B Gates.
When is TSA security at ABQ quietest?
Over the 175 counted days, 22 March to 24 October 2026, ABQ checkpoints screened the most people at 5 am. The counts fall away after noon. Each row of the map above is one checkpoint scaled to its own peak, so its green hours are the ones to aim for. Counts say when a checkpoint is loaded, not how long the line is.
What time does TSA open at ABQ?
Over the 175 counted days, 22 March to 24 October 2026, ABQ screened passengers from 3 am to 6 pm. These are the hours TSA counted people, not ABQ's published checkpoint hours. Check the airport's own page before an early flight.
What is the busiest day of the week at ABQ?
Thursday is ABQ's busiest day of the week, about 9,100 people screened on an average one, 33 percent more than Saturday, the quietest. Averaged over 163 days of TSA counts, 22 March to 24 October 2026, with the days around each holiday left out.
Which month is busiest at ABQ?
October was ABQ's busiest month in TSA's counts, about 9,800 people a day, 35 percent more than April, the quietest. It is also the latest month counted. Averaged over 175 days of TSA counts, 22 March to 24 October 2026. March, June, July, and October rest on 10, 13, 13, and 17 counted days.
How busy does ABQ get on a holiday weekend?
Memorial Day 2026, Thursday 21 to Tuesday 26 May: the busiest day was Thursday 21 May, 10,058 people, 10 percent above the Thursdays around it. Labor Day 2026, Thursday 3 to Tuesday 8 September: the busiest day was Monday 7 September, 9,436 people, 19 percent above the Mondays around it. Sunday 6 September was the lightest for its day of the week, 23 percent below the Sundays around it. Each day is set against the same day of the week in the three weeks either side. Thanksgiving and Christmas 2026 are not in TSA's counts yet; they run to 24 October 2026.
Does ABQ publish a live TSA wait time?
Not one waittimes.io reads, so this page carries no number for right now and never predicts one. The national page ranks the 23 airports whose live number waittimes.io reads.
Does PreCheck have a shorter line at ABQ?
This page has no lane-by-lane wait time for ABQ, so there is no PreCheck number to compare. TSA's counts are per checkpoint and do not separate PreCheck from standard lanes; the map above shows when each checkpoint is loaded, whichever lane you join.
Other airports
Every covered airport, ranked by its line right now, is on the national page, with the airports that have no live number here under it. The busiest airports by people screened lists every code TSA counts.
ATL, BOS, BWI, CLE, CLT, DAL, DCA, DFW, DTW, EWR, IAH, JAX, JFK, LGA, MCO, MIA, MSP, PHL, PHX, PIT, SEA, SFO, SLC
Where the numbers come from
- Wait times
- There is none for Albuquerque Sunport on waittimes.io.
- Usual busyness
- TSA's own hourly passenger counts per checkpoint, published weekly in its FOIA reading room. This page uses 175 days of counts, 22 March to 24 October 2026. Public domain.
- Who reads them
- Arcane Digital, which runs waittimes.io, reads every feed every 10 minutes with its own collector and stores the time of each read. The day's reads are checked every night for a feed that has stopped or thinned, and one person reads that report the next morning. Nobody types a number in.
- What we never do
- Predict a wait in minutes, or show an old number as if it were current.
- Every feed
- How each one is read, the TSA counts and who to write to: the sources page.