FLLFort Lauderdale
When is TSA security busiest at FLL?
TSA's counts over 175 days, 22 March to 24 October 2026, put FLL's busiest hour at 10 am, with the counts falling away after 6 pm. Fort Lauderdale (FLL) publishes no live wait time, so this page carries no number for right now.
How busy FLL 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.
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Tap a cell for its count.
Quiet for this checkpointIts busiest hourclosed or no count
On the counted days FLL screened passengers from 3 am to 9 pm. Across FLL the busiest hour is 10 am and the counts fall away after 6 pm. T1 Checkpoint and T3F Checkpoint screen 54 percent of the people TSA counts at FLL, T1 Checkpoint alone 33 percent. Most checkpoints peak before noon; T4 Checkpoint runs the other way at 7 pm. TSA counts people, not minutes, so this shows when a checkpoint is loaded, not how long you will stand in it.
Checkpoints and terminals at FLL
What Fort Lauderdale says on its own site, in our words, with the page each fact comes from and the day we read it. Airports move airlines and lanes, so check the linked page before you fly.
Which terminal each airline uses
Where each airline's ticket counter is. The airport's site says nothing about its checkpoints or lanes. From broward.org, read 15 October 2026.
- Terminal 1, Concourses A, B and C
- Alaska, Allegiant, Bahamasair, Breeze, Caribbean, Contour, Copa, Frontier, IBC, Southwest, United, Western Air
- Terminal 2, Concourse D
- Delta, WestJet
- Terminal 3, Concourses E and F
- American, Avelo, Azul, Flair, JetBlue, Porter, Sun Country
- Terminal 4, Concourse G
- Air Canada (since 15 September 2026), Air Transat, Avianca, Flair, JetBlue (Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic and Jamaica), Sunrise Airways
Which day FLL is busiest
Sunday is FLL's busiest day of the week, about 49,000 people screened on an average one, 53 percent more than Wednesday, the quietest.
| Rank | Day | People a day | Days counted |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sunday | 49,437 | 23 |
| 2 | Monday | 47,114 | 23 |
| 3 | Friday | 44,610 | 23 |
| 4 | Thursday | 41,784 | 23 |
| 5 | Saturday | 40,046 | 23 |
| 6 | Tuesday | 33,013 | 23 |
| 7 | Wednesday | 32,358 | 25 |
People screened at FLL 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 FLL is busiest
March was FLL's busiest month in TSA's counts, about 56,000 people a day, 68 percent more than September, the quietest. October, the latest month counted, ran 33 percent below March.
| Rank | Month | People a day | Days counted |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | March | 56,258 | 10 |
| 2 | April | 50,632 | 30 |
| 3 | July | 42,100 | 13 |
| 4 | May | 38,949 | 31 |
| 5 | August | 38,911 | 31 |
| 6 | June | 37,671 | 13 |
| 7 | October | 37,481 | 17 |
| 8 | September | 33,526 | 30 |
People screened at FLL 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 FLL 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 Monday 25 May, 45,800 people, 5 percent above the Mondays around it. Sunday 24 May was the lightest for its day of the week, 13 percent below the Sundays around it.
Labor Day 2026
Thursday 3 to Tuesday 8 September: the busiest day was Monday 7 September, 46,936 people, 18 percent above the Mondays around it. Sunday 6 September was the lightest for its day of the week, 12 percent below the Sundays around it.
Questions people ask
How busy is FLL airport today?
Fort Lauderdale publishes no live wait time, so there is no number for today. By TSA's counts 10 am is usually one of the busiest hours at FLL, about 3,500 people an hour across its checkpoints against 3,500 at the 10 am peak. On a normal day FLL screens about 41,000 people, 17th of the 432 airports TSA counts; its largest checkpoint is T1 Checkpoint, with 33 percent of them.
When is TSA security at FLL quietest?
Over the 175 counted days, 22 March to 24 October 2026, FLL checkpoints screened the most people at 10 am. Between the rushes the counts are lowest at 2 pm, and they fall away after 6 pm. 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 FLL?
Over the 175 counted days, 22 March to 24 October 2026, FLL screened passengers from 3 am to 9 pm. T3F Checkpoint opens first and T3F Checkpoint and T4 Checkpoint run latest. These are the hours TSA counted people, not FLL's published checkpoint hours. Check the airport's own page before an early flight.
What is the busiest day of the week at FLL?
Sunday is FLL's busiest day of the week, about 49,000 people screened on an average one, 53 percent more than Wednesday, 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 FLL?
March was FLL's busiest month in TSA's counts, about 56,000 people a day, 68 percent more than September, the quietest. October, the latest month counted, ran 33 percent below March. 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 FLL get on a holiday weekend?
Memorial Day 2026, Thursday 21 to Tuesday 26 May: the busiest day was Monday 25 May, 45,800 people, 5 percent above the Mondays around it. Sunday 24 May was the lightest for its day of the week, 13 percent below the Sundays around it. Labor Day 2026, Thursday 3 to Tuesday 8 September: the busiest day was Monday 7 September, 46,936 people, 18 percent above the Mondays around it. Sunday 6 September was the lightest for its day of the week, 12 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 FLL publish a live TSA wait time?
No. Fort Lauderdale publishes no live wait time, 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 FLL?
FLL publishes no lane-by-lane wait time, 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
- Fort Lauderdale publishes none.
- 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.
- Checkpoints and airlines
- Read once on Fort Lauderdale's own site and linked beside each fact, with the day it was read. Never from another site.
- 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.