MSPMinneapolis St Paul
How long is the TSA security line at MSP right now?
At 9:40 am Central every open standard lane at MSP is 10 minutes or under. The longest standard line is T1 South, 0 to 10 min.
Wait time by checkpoint
| Checkpoint | Standard | PreCheck |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal 1 | ||
| T1 North | 0 to 5min | no lane |
| T1 South | 0 to 10min | no lane |
| Terminal 2 | ||
| T2 Checkpoint 1 | 0 to 10min | no lane |
| T2 Checkpoint 2 | no lane | 0 to 5min |
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How busy MSP 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 | 9 am, now | 10a | 12p | 2p | 4p | 6p | 8p | 10p | |||||||||
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| T2 Checkpoint 2 |
Tap a cell for its count.
Quiet for this checkpointIts busiest hourclosed or no count
On the counted days MSP screened passengers from 3 am to 8 pm. Across MSP the busiest hour is 5 am and the counts fall away after 5 pm. Most checkpoints peak before noon; P-7 runs the other way at 6 pm, P-10 at 3 pm. 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 MSP airport today?
At 9:40 am Central every open standard lane at MSP is 10 minutes or under. The longest standard line is T1 South, 0 to 10 min. By TSA's counts 9 am is usually a middling hour at MSP, about 2,300 people an hour across its checkpoints against 3,600 at the 5 am peak. On a normal day MSP screens about 38,000 people, 20th of the 431 airports TSA counts; its largest checkpoint is T1 South.
Does PreCheck have a shorter line at MSP?
Right now PreCheck lanes at MSP read 0 to 5 min. Standard lanes read 0 to 10 min. PreCheck is open at T2 Checkpoint 2; check the sign above before walking to one.
Which MSP checkpoint is fastest right now?
At 9:40 am Central the shortest standard line is at T1 North, T1 South and T2 Checkpoint 1, 0 to 5 min. The sign above lists every checkpoint and lane the airport publishes, longest and shortest alike.
How long is the TSA line at each MSP terminal?
At 9:40 am Central the standard wait is 0 to 10 min at Terminal 1 and 0 to 10 min at Terminal 2. The sign above lists each terminal on its own, with every checkpoint it has and its PreCheck lane.
How current is this number?
MSP Airport publishes the MSP wait times at mspairport.com and waittimes.io reads them every 10 minutes. The time on the sign is the last read, in Central 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 MSP quietest?
Over the 133 counted days, 22 March to 5 September 2026, MSP checkpoints screened the most people at 5 am. Between the rushes the counts are lowest at 10 am, and they fall away after 5 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 MSP?
Over the 133 counted days, 22 March to 5 September 2026, MSP screened passengers from 3 am to 8 pm. T1 North and T1 South run latest. These are the hours TSA counted people, not MSP'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, MIA, PHL, PHX, PIT, SEA, SLC
Where the numbers come from
- Wait times
- Published by MSP Airport at mspairport.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.