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How long is the TSA security line at MCO right now?
At 10:40 am Eastern most MCO checkpoints are under 10 minutes. The longest standard line is Gates 1 - 59, 10 to 14 min. Gates 70 - 129 and Gates C230 - C254 are moving at 3 to 6 min.
Wait time by checkpoint
| Checkpoint | Standard | PreCheck |
|---|---|---|
| Gates 1 - 59 | 10 to 14min | 1 to 5min |
| Gates 70 - 129 | 3 to 6min | 4 to 8min |
| Gates C230 - C254 | 3 to 6min | 1 to 5min |
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How busy MCO security usually is
People screened per hour at each checkpoint, averaged over 133 days of TSA counts, 22 March to 5 September 2026. Green is that checkpoint's quiet hours, red its peak. Find your checkpoint and look along the row for green.
| Checkpoint | 4a | 6a | 8a | 10 am, now | 12p | 2p | 4p | 6p | 8p | 10p | ||||||||||
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| Gates 1 - 59 (West) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Gates 70 - 129 (East) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Gates C230 - C254 (Terminal C) |
Tap a cell for its count.
Quiet for this checkpointIts busiest hourclosed or no count
On the counted days MCO screened passengers from 2 am to 9 pm. Across MCO the busiest hour is 5 am and the counts fall away after 7 pm. Half the checkpoints peak before noon and half after. TSA counts people, not minutes, so this shows when a checkpoint is loaded, not how long you will stand in it.
Questions people ask
How busy is MCO airport today?
At 10:40 am Eastern most MCO checkpoints are under 10 minutes. The longest standard line is Gates 1 - 59, 10 to 14 min. By TSA's counts 10 am is usually one of the busiest hours at MCO, about 4,600 people an hour across its checkpoints against 5,300 at the 5 am peak. On a normal day MCO screens about 76,000 people, 5th of the 431 airports TSA counts; its largest checkpoint is Gates 1 - 59 (West).
Does PreCheck have a shorter line at MCO?
Right now PreCheck lanes at MCO read 1 to 8 min. Standard lanes read 3 to 14 min. PreCheck is open at Gates 1 - 59, Gates 70 - 129 and Gates C230 - C254; check the sign above before walking to one.
Which MCO checkpoint is fastest right now?
At 10:40 am Eastern the shortest standard line is at Gates 70 - 129 and Gates C230 - C254, 3 to 6 min. The sign above lists every checkpoint and lane the airport publishes, longest and shortest alike.
How current is this number?
Orlando International Airport publishes the MCO wait times at flymco.com and waittimes.io reads them every 10 minutes. The time on the sign is the last read, in Eastern time. A number older than 30 minutes says so, and a feed silent for 2 hours shows when it last published instead of a number. Nothing here is predicted.
When is TSA security at MCO quietest?
Over the 133 counted days, 22 March to 5 September 2026, MCO checkpoints screened the most people at 5 am. Between the rushes the counts are lowest at 11 am, and they fall away after 7 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 MCO?
Over the 133 counted days, 22 March to 5 September 2026, MCO screened passengers from 2 am to 9 pm. Gates C230 - C254 (Terminal C) opens first and Gates 1 - 59 (West) and Gates C230 - C254 (Terminal C) run latest. These are the hours TSA counted people, not MCO's published checkpoint hours. Check the airport's own page before an early flight.
Other airports
Every covered airport, ranked by its line right now, is on the national page, with the airports that publish no live number under it. The busiest airports by people screened lists every code TSA counts.
ATL, BOS, BWI, CLE, CLT, DAL, DCA, DFW, DTW, EWR, IAH, JFK, LGA, MIA, MSP, PHL, PHX, PIT, SEA, SLC
Where the numbers come from
- Wait times
- Published by Orlando International Airport at flymco.com. We read the page every 10 minutes and show the time of the last read. A reading older than 30 minutes is marked as such.
- Usual busyness
- TSA's own hourly passenger counts per checkpoint, published weekly in its FOIA reading room. This page uses 133 days of counts, 22 March to 5 September 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.