Flyers at Xfinity Mobile Arena: What time do doors open?

NHL game night at Xfinity Mobile Arena, home of the Philadelphia Flyers. For a concert here, start from the concert night plan instead: a support act sets the deadline rather than the anthem.

Travel time to Xfinity Mobile Arena

The 30-minute drive is a typical run from Philadelphia without game-day traffic (the optimistic number). In the app, set Xfinity Mobile Arena as the destination and Apple Maps fills in the time from where you’re leaving.

Then add for game day: thousands aiming at the same exit and lots (real drive to Xfinity Mobile Arena). Change the row and every step before it moves.

Puck drop is later than you think

The time on your ticket is when the puck drops. The teams warm up well before that and the anthem and the opening ceremony run right up to it. Aim for ten to fifteen minutes earlier if you want to be in your seat for any of it.

Screening at the doors usually decides it. Every NHL arena runs walk-through detectors, and the queue is the gap between arriving and being inside. People who miss the start rarely misjudge the drive; they misjudge the lot walk and the line.

Getting to Xfinity Mobile Arena

Almost everything arrives on Broad Street: the Broad Street or Sports Complex exit off I-95 in either direction and off the Walt Whitman Bridge, or 76 east and then south on Broad from the Turnpike. The train is the honest alternative on a weeknight, because the Broad Street Line runs to NRG Station at Pattison Avenue, the last stop, and the arena is the first of the three venues you reach from it.

From the Market-Frankford Line, change to the Broad Street Line southbound in Center City. Bus routes 4 and 17 come down here too. When something at a neighboring stadium overlaps, the complex fills from the outside in.

The arena stands in the middle of the South Philadelphia sports complex with its own ring of lettered lots, shared with the stadiums either side when both are busy. It is self-park and no longer cash: cards, prepaid cards, Apple Pay and Google Pay, and booking ahead through SpotHero is usually cheaper than the gate.

You can drop passengers at any building entrance before going to find a space, and accessible parking sits next to the entrances on the east, west and south sides. Lyft has a pick-up lot of its own in Lot D, at the southeast corner. The lots on the 11th Street side put you at that entrance in a few minutes and the outer ones are a longer walk in and a longer crawl out.

Common questions

How early should I get to Xfinity Mobile Arena?

Doors open about an hour before puck drop here; that is when the crowd starts arriving, not when you have to. Being through the doors about half an hour before puck drop covers screening, the walk to your section, and a stop on the concourse.

When should I leave for Xfinity Mobile Arena?

Work backward from puck drop: minutes in your seat beforehand, walk to your section, security screening, walk from the lot, parking, then the drive (30 minutes in the default plan). That puts leave-by at 5:44 PM for a 7:00 PM puck drop. Change the puck drop time and every row moves.

What time is puck drop at Xfinity Mobile Arena?

It is whatever the team has scheduled, and these are local times rather than a converted national window. On this arena's clock: a weekend matinee drops the puck at 1:00 PM, a night game at 7:00 PM, a later start at 7:30 PM. This example uses the night game window. Holiday games, nationally televised nights and playoff rounds run their own times; the puck drop row is editable for those.

How long does the security line take?

The plan allows 10 minutes for a normal walk-through queue. It runs longer in the twenty minutes before puck drop. Arriving fifteen minutes off that peak is usually enough.

What time do the doors open at Xfinity Mobile Arena?

About an hour before puck drop here. It moves for a date the arena opens ninety minutes out instead. The official Xfinity Mobile Arena guest guide publishes the real time for your game.

Can I tailgate at Xfinity Mobile Arena?

Not in the lots here. If you are meeting people somewhere else, add that as a step and everything before it moves earlier.

What can I bring in?

Assume a small bag at most. Check the arena's own page for current sizes. The timing risk is being turned around at the door and walking back to the car: the walk twice and a second trip through the queue.

Flying in? The airport pages. Taking Amtrak? The station pages. No stadium listed? The tailgate timeline is the same plan without a particular lot.

Build it once, then use it every home game

Ready Time keeps the plan and subtracts again when the puck drop changes. Put in next week's game and the same steps land on new times, with an alert on each one.