What's flying overhead?

This page shows every aircraft currently within about 40 nautical miles, roughly 46 miles or 74 kilometers, of a point you choose. It is a live snapshot of the traffic in the sky around you.

To center the view on you, the page asks your browser for your location. That lookup happens in your browser, and the coordinates are used only to query for nearby aircraft. If you would rather not share your location, or your device cannot provide it, you can search for any place by name and browse the skies there instead.

Each aircraft appears both on the map and in a list sorted by distance, nearest first. A row shows its callsign, type, altitude and speed, alongside the straight-line distance from your point and a bearing in degrees, which is the compass direction to look, where 0 is north, 90 east, 180 south and 270 west. Aircraft that are both low and close, below about 12,000 feet and within 15 nautical miles, earn a likely visible badge, meaning that in clear skies you might actually spot them overhead. The list refreshes every 15 seconds and pauses while the tab is in the background.

Positions come from the volunteer adsb.lol network, so this is a best-effort view rather than an authoritative or complete one. Aircraft without ADS-B, or those in areas with few nearby receivers, may not appear at all.