Live on the globe now: 76 tracked
This layer plots live aircraft on the globe using ADS-B position reports from adsb.fi, a community feeder network whose data is open and free to use without an account. Each aircraft is a point flown to its real reported coordinates, with barometric altitude mapped to height above the surface, so a busy approach corridor or a transatlantic crossing reads as actual geometry rather than a flat dot. Click any aircraft to inspect its callsign, registration, ICAO hex, type, ground speed, track and squawk code where the feeder network reports them. The data comes from volunteers running ADS-B receivers that pick up the signals aircraft broadcast continuously; we sequence regional queries across major air-traffic regions plus a global military feed and rebuild a fresh deduplicated snapshot roughly every 30 seconds, within adsb.fi's shared rate limit. Coverage is densest where receivers are dense, so North America, Europe, the Gulf and East Asia show the most traffic, and remote ocean tracks can thin out. Unlike commercial trackers, adsb.fi adds no paywall and no delay tier. This is one of about 29 live layers on the overwatch.earth globe, which you can spin, zoom and solo to focus on flights alone.
Data source: adsb.fi
From adsb.fi, a crowdsourced network of volunteer-run ADS-B receivers. Their open data feed is free and requires no key, which is why this layer carries no paywall or delayed tier the way some commercial trackers do.
Aircraft broadcast ADS-B continuously, and we pull a fresh deduplicated snapshot from adsb.fi roughly every 30 seconds across major air-traffic regions plus a global military feed, staying within the source's shared rate limit.
Click any aircraft to inspect its callsign, registration, ICAO hex code, type, barometric altitude, ground speed, heading and squawk, wherever the feeder network reports those fields. Altitude is also shown visually as the point's height above the globe.
ADS-B coverage depends on where volunteers run receivers. Dense areas like North America, Europe, the Gulf and East Asia show heavy traffic, while remote oceans and sparsely-covered regions can have gaps.