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FACTS VERIFIED JULY 26, 2026 · ALL 20 AIRPORTS

Detroit (DTW) TSA wait times — the real source.

OFFICIAL LIVE FEED

Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport publishes official live security wait times. The button below opens the airport's own live board — the only measured source for DTW. DTW publishes live average waits per terminal (McNamara and Evans) on its homepage.

OPEN DTW'S OFFICIAL LIVE WAIT TIMES ↗

Checkpoints: McNamara Terminal + Evans (North) TerminalPreCheck: available

How early should you arrive at DTW?

DTW officially recommends arriving two hours before a domestic flight and three hours before an international flight.

The honest truth about "live TSA wait times." The TSA shut down its public wait-time API years ago and publishes no live checkpoint feed for any airport. Every website showing "live" TSA waits for hundreds of airports is showing you a model or a guess. The only real live numbers come from the airports themselves — so we verified all 20 major airports by hand (July 26, 2026) and link you straight to the official source. 17 of 20 publish a live feed; Chicago Midway and Milwaukee Mitchell publish none.

🍁 Crossing from Ontario to fly from DTW? Check live Ambassador Bridge border waits before you leave — the border is the longer queue.

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Source: Transit Barometer — Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport security wait-time sources, hand-verified July 26, 2026. https://transitbarometer.com/tsa-wait-times/dtw/
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