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FACTS VERIFIED JULY 26, 2026 · ALL 20 AIRPORTS

San Francisco (SFO) TSA wait times — the real source.

OFFICIAL LIVE FEED

San Francisco International Airport publishes official live security wait times. The button below opens the airport's own live board — the only measured source for SFO. SFO maintains an official security wait-times page at flysfo.com/security-wait-times.

OPEN SFO'S OFFICIAL LIVE WAIT TIMES ↗

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How early should you arrive at SFO?

No airport-specific arrival guidance is published — the TSA standard applies: 2 hours before domestic flights, 3 hours before international.

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.

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Source: Transit Barometer — San Francisco International Airport security wait-time sources, hand-verified July 26, 2026. https://transitbarometer.com/tsa-wait-times/sfo/
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