TUSTucson
How long is the TSA security line at TUS?
Tucson (TUS) publishes no live wait time, so this page carries no number for right now. TSA's counts over 133 days, 22 March to 5 September 2026, put TUS's busiest hour at 5 am, with the counts falling away after 11 am.
How busy TUS 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 | 7 am, now | 8a | 10a | 12p | 2p | 4p | 6p | 8p | 10p | |||||||||
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| ACP | ||||||||||||||||||||
| BCP |
Tap a cell for its count.
Quiet for this checkpointIts busiest hourclosed or no count
On the counted days TUS screened passengers from 3 am to 6 pm. Across TUS the busiest hour is 5 am and the counts fall away after 11 am. Every checkpoint peaks before noon. 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 TUS airport today?
Tucson publishes no live wait time, so there is no number for today. By TSA's counts 7 am is usually a quiet hour at TUS, about 250 people an hour across its checkpoints against 830 at the 5 am peak. On a normal day TUS screens about 5,700 people, 78th of the 431 airports TSA counts; its largest checkpoint is BCP.
When is TSA security at TUS quietest?
Over the 133 counted days, 22 March to 5 September 2026, TUS checkpoints screened the most people at 5 am. Between the rushes the counts are lowest at 9 am, and they fall away after 11 am. 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 TUS?
Over the 133 counted days, 22 March to 5 September 2026, TUS screened passengers from 3 am to 6 pm. ACP runs latest. These are the hours TSA counted people, not TUS's published checkpoint hours. Check the airport's own page before an early flight.
Does TUS publish a live TSA wait time?
No. Tucson publishes no wait time waittimes.io can read, so this page carries no number for right now and never predicts one. The national page ranks the 21 airports that publish a live number.
Does PreCheck have a shorter line at TUS?
TUS 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 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, MSP, PHL, PHX, PIT, SEA, SLC
Where the numbers come from
- Wait times
- Tucson publishes no wait time waittimes.io can read yet.
- 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.