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Albuquerque International Sunport Airport Security Wait Times (ABQ): Live Now - HonestAirport

Albuquerque International Sunport (ABQ)

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Albuquerque International Sunport security wait times

How long the lines are right now, what a normal day looks like, and how to get through faster.

Flying from ABQ?

Enter your flight for a door-to-door plan: when to leave, security, the lounge you can use and your gate. No account needed.

Right now

On a typical day

~12 min through security at ABQ, from our airport directory. Early mornings and holiday weekends run longer.

Budget that on top of check-in or bag drop and the walk to your gate. For your exact leave-home time, enter your flight above: the plan uses the live wait when there is one.

TSA’s published window is 04:00–23:45. Official checkpoint hours are 4:00 a.m. to 11:45 p.m., subject to TSA closing earlier when the last departure is gone.

How to get through faster at ABQ

One checkpoint, 04:00–23:45
Official TSA window is 4:00 a.m. to 11:45 p.m. PreCheck is here. CLEAR is not.
Empty the bottle at the single checkpoint, then refill at the restroom fountain on your concourse. Official pages do not map fillers — do not navigate to a blog’s Elkay pin.
Do not hunt The Club ABQ, an Escape Lounge, a Centurion, or a CLEAR lane. Those names belong to other airports or to aggregator SEO pages.
One building. Ticketing and the TSA checkpoint are on the upper / departures level. Bags, taxis (Door 2), rideshare (Door 7), and the Route 50 stop are on the lower / arrivals level. Aviation Department offices sit on the third level.
After security you hit the T-connector: Food Hall, Duke City Station, Los Poblanos, Museum of New Mexico Foundation, Mountain Standard Time, Yucca Outpost, and (when open) Burque Brews and Sadie’s. Concourse A is one way; Concourse B the other. You can walk between A and B without reclearing.

PreCheck, CLEAR, liquids and IDs. What the TSA lets through and which programs actually save time.