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How long is the TSA security line at Miami airport (MIA) right now?
At 10:40 am Eastern most MIA checkpoints are under 10 minutes. The longest standard line is Checkpoint 2, 12 to 16 min. Checkpoint 3 and Checkpoint 4 are moving at under 1 min.
Wait time by checkpoint
| Checkpoint | Standard | PreCheck |
|---|---|---|
| Checkpoint 1 | no lane | 1 to 3min |
| Checkpoint 2 | 12 to 16min | closed |
| Checkpoint 3 | under 1min | no lane |
| Checkpoint 4 | under 1min | no lane |
| Checkpoint 5 | 1 to 3min | 1 to 3min |
| Checkpoint 6 | 1 to 3min | no lane |
| Checkpoint 7 | 2 to 6min | no lane |
| Checkpoint 8 | 6 to 10min | 1 to 4min |
| Checkpoint 9 | 1 to 4min | no lane |
| Checkpoint 10 | 5 to 9min | no lane |
| Checkpoint FIS | 1 to 3min | closed |
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How busy MIA 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.
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Tap a cell for its count.
Quiet for this checkpointIts busiest hourclosed or no count
On the counted days MIA screened passengers in every hour of the day. Across MIA the busiest hour is 6 pm and the counts fall away after 8 pm. Most checkpoints peak from noon on; Checkpoint 6 runs the other way at 4 am, Checkpoint 7 at 5 am, Checkpoint 1 and Checkpoint 3 at 7 am and Checkpoint 8 at 10 am. 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 MIA airport today?
At 10:40 am Eastern most MIA checkpoints are under 10 minutes. The longest standard line is Checkpoint 2, 12 to 16 min. By TSA's counts 10 am is usually one of the busiest hours at MIA, about 3,600 people an hour across its checkpoints against 4,800 at the 6 pm peak. On a normal day MIA screens about 70,000 people, 8th of the 431 airports TSA counts; its largest checkpoint is Checkpoint 3.
Does PreCheck have a shorter line at MIA?
Right now PreCheck lanes at MIA read 1 to 4 min. Standard lanes read 0 to 16 min. PreCheck is open at Checkpoint 1, Checkpoint 5 and Checkpoint 8; check the sign above before walking to one.
Which MIA checkpoint is fastest right now?
At 10:40 am Eastern the shortest standard line is at Checkpoint 3 and Checkpoint 4, under 1 min. The sign above lists every checkpoint and lane the airport publishes, longest and shortest alike.
How current is this number?
Miami International Airport publishes the MIA wait times at miami-airport.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 MIA quietest?
Over the 133 counted days, 22 March to 5 September 2026, MIA checkpoints screened the most people at 6 pm. Between the rushes the counts are lowest at 9 am, and they fall away after 8 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 MIA?
Over the 133 counted days, 22 March to 5 September 2026, MIA screened passengers in every hour of the day. Checkpoint 9 opens first and Checkpoint 9 and RSSP run latest. These are the hours TSA counted people, not MIA'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, MCO, MSP, PHL, PHX, PIT, SEA, SLC
Where the numbers come from
- Wait times
- Published by Miami International Airport at miami-airport.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.