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When is TSA security busiest at Las Vegas airport (LAS)?
TSA's counts over 175 days, 22 March to 24 October 2026, put Las Vegas airport's busiest hour at 11 am, with the counts falling away after 4 pm. Las Vegas Harry Reid (LAS) publishes a live wait time at harryreidairport.com; its terms do not let another site show it, so this page carries no number for right now.
How busy Las Vegas airport 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 | 7 am, now | 8a | 10a | 12p | 2p | 4p | 6p | 8p | 10p | |||||||||
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| Terminal 3 - E Lower (1) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Terminal 3 - E Upper |
Tap a cell for its count.
Quiet for this checkpointIts busiest hourclosed or no count
On the counted days the first passengers through Las Vegas airport were screened at midnight and the last at 11 pm. Across Las Vegas airport the busiest hour is 11 am and the counts fall away after 4 pm. Terminal 3 - E Upper and Term 1 - CX screen 59 percent of the people TSA counts at Las Vegas airport, Terminal 3 - E Upper alone 37 percent. Most checkpoints peak before noon; Terminal 3 - E Upper runs the other way at noon. 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 Las Vegas airport
What Las Vegas Harry Reid 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.
Where the checkpoints are
Harry Reid has five checkpoints. Terminal 1 has three: one for the A and B gates, one for the C gates used by Southwest, and one for the C and D gates. Terminal 3 has two: Level 2, for the D and E gates, and the Innovation Checkpoint on Level Zero. From harryreidairport.com, read 15 October 2026.
A traveller with no checked bags can clear security in Terminal 3 and take the tram to the D gates and Terminal 1, even when the airline is in Terminal 1. From harryreidairport.com, read 15 October 2026.
Which terminal each airline uses
From harryreidairport.com, read 15 October 2026.
- Terminal 1
- Allegiant, American, Delta, Southwest, Sun Country
- Terminal 3
- Aer Lingus, Aeromexico, Air Canada, Air France, Alaska, Avianca, Breeze, British Airways, Condor, Contour, Copa, Discover, Edelweiss, Flair, Frontier, Hawaiian, JetBlue, KLM, Korean Air, Porter, United, Virgin Atlantic, VivaAerobus, Volaris, WestJet
Which day Las Vegas airport is busiest
Sunday is Las Vegas airport's busiest day of the week, about 87,000 people screened on an average one, 65 percent more than Tuesday, the quietest.
| Rank | Day | People a day | Days counted |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sunday | 86,903 | 23 |
| 2 | Monday | 77,261 | 23 |
| 3 | Thursday | 68,785 | 23 |
| 4 | Friday | 68,172 | 23 |
| 5 | Saturday | 57,177 | 23 |
| 6 | Wednesday | 55,235 | 25 |
| 7 | Tuesday | 52,679 | 23 |
People screened at Las Vegas airport 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 Las Vegas airport is busiest
Every month at Las Vegas airport came within 12 percent of the busiest, October, at about 71,000 people a day.
| Rank | Month | People a day | Days counted |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October | 71,162 | 17 |
| 2 | March | 70,956 | 10 |
| 3 | May | 70,800 | 31 |
| 4 | April | 68,818 | 30 |
| 5 | July | 64,554 | 13 |
| 6 | September | 63,680 | 30 |
| 7 | June | 63,005 | 13 |
| 8 | August | 62,538 | 31 |
People screened at Las Vegas airport 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 Las Vegas airport 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, 90,098 people, 15 percent above the Mondays around it. Sunday 24 May was the lightest for its day of the week, 5 percent below the Sundays around it.
Labor Day 2026
Thursday 3 to Tuesday 8 September: the busiest day was Monday 7 September, 88,815 people, 21 percent above the Mondays around it. Saturday 5 September was the lightest for its day of the week, 7 percent below the Saturdays around it.
Questions people ask
How busy is Las Vegas airport today?
Las Vegas Harry Reid publishes today's live wait at harryreidairport.com; this page does not carry it. By TSA's counts 7 am is usually one of the busiest hours at Las Vegas airport, about 4,100 people an hour across its checkpoints against 5,000 at the 11 am peak. On a normal day Las Vegas airport screens about 67,000 people, 10th of the 432 airports TSA counts; its largest checkpoint is Terminal 3 - E Upper, with 37 percent of them.
When is TSA security at Las Vegas airport quietest?
Over the 175 counted days, 22 March to 24 October 2026, Las Vegas airport checkpoints screened the most people at 11 am. Between the rushes the counts are lowest at 7 am, and they fall away after 4 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 Las Vegas airport?
Over the 175 counted days, 22 March to 24 October 2026, the first passengers through Las Vegas airport were screened at midnight and the last at 11 pm. Terminal 3 - E Upper opens first and Term 1 - AB, Term 1 - D and Terminal 3 - E Upper run latest. These are the hours TSA counted people, not Las Vegas airport's published checkpoint hours. Check the airport's own page before an early flight.
What is the busiest day of the week at Las Vegas airport?
Sunday is Las Vegas airport's busiest day of the week, about 87,000 people screened on an average one, 65 percent more than Tuesday, 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 Las Vegas airport?
Every month at Las Vegas airport came within 12 percent of the busiest, October, at about 71,000 people a day. 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 Las Vegas airport get on a holiday weekend?
Memorial Day 2026, Thursday 21 to Tuesday 26 May: the busiest day was Monday 25 May, 90,098 people, 15 percent above the Mondays around it. Sunday 24 May was the lightest for its day of the week, 5 percent below the Sundays around it. Labor Day 2026, Thursday 3 to Tuesday 8 September: the busiest day was Monday 7 September, 88,815 people, 21 percent above the Mondays around it. Saturday 5 September was the lightest for its day of the week, 7 percent below the Saturdays 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 Las Vegas airport publish a live TSA wait time?
Yes, at harryreidairport.com, the airport's own site. Its terms do not let another site show it, so this page carries no number and never predicts one: harryreidairport.com is where to look before you leave.
Does PreCheck have a shorter line at Las Vegas airport?
This page has no lane-by-lane wait time for Las Vegas airport; harryreidairport.com publishes the airport's own. 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
- Las Vegas Harry Reid publishes them at harryreidairport.com. Its terms do not let another site show it, so waittimes.io does not read the page.
- 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 Las Vegas Harry Reid'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.