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Recorded crossings
A free Strait of Hormuz ship tracker and traffic monitor
Today's crossings →What the tracker follows
This page is a free live ship tracker for the Strait of Hormuz, with no login needed. It follows every vessel broadcasting AIS between the Gulf coast of the UAE and the Gulf of Oman, 1,438 of them right now, and shows each ship's position, name, flag, type, speed and declared destination. Use it to watch tankers, cargo ships and LNG carriers approach the strait, wait at anchor or cross it. The tracker is built on AIS, not radar or satellite imagery.
What it monitors, and how often it updates
Ship positions refresh about every 20 seconds. From them, hormuz.now also works as a traffic monitor for the strait: every commercial ship that crosses our counting line is logged, and the crossing counts, the open, restricted or closed status and the number of ships waiting at anchorages are recomputed every minute. To see the same ships from the water, open the 3D map of the Strait of Hormuz.
How the Strait of Hormuz live map works
Methodology →The map plots every vessel that is broadcasting AIS, the Automatic Identification System, in and around the Strait of Hormuz. Positions refresh about every 20 seconds. Arrows point in the direction of travel and dots are ships that are stationary; select a ship to see its speed, declared destination, crossings and track over the last 48 hours.
The dashed line across the eastern mouth of the strait is our counting line, from the tip of Oman's Musandam Peninsula to the Iranian coast near Kuhestak. Every commercial ship that crosses it is logged on the Strait of Hormuz traffic page and feeds the open or closed status. The shaded boxes are the anchorage areas we use to measure where ships are waiting.
What an AIS map cannot show
This is AIS data, not satellite imagery. IMO rules require AIS on ships of 300 gross tonnes and above on international voyages, but a master may switch it off if broadcasting would compromise safety or security (IMO). Ships running dark and most warships therefore do not appear, and the real number of ships in the strait can be higher than the map shows.
Positions can also be wrong. JMIC reported that navigation interference persists in the Strait of Hormuz, with the strongest GNSS interference near the Tunbs and in the Musandam and Khasab approaches, and that electronic interference remains a concern in the Gulf of Oman (JMIC Update 113, 12 Nov 2026). A ship that appears far inland, or jumps across the map between updates, is probably reporting a false GPS position; our crossing counts filter out such jumps.
More live Strait of Hormuz data
Traffic today
3 commercial ships have crossed since 00:00 UTC; the 7-day average is 6.3 a day. Every crossing, by direction and ship type.
Ships waiting
Where ships are anchored on both sides of the strait, how long they have been waiting, and what their crews are broadcasting.
Gulf ports
Port calls and exports at 25 Gulf ports against the year before the crisis, from IMF PortWatch.
Live AIS data as of · 1,438 vessels visible in the region. Counts are AIS-visible only and miss ships running dark. How we count.