Strait of Hormuz traffic in October 2026
From 19 to 31 October 2026, the part of the month our data covers, hormuz.now recorded 98 AIS-visible commercial ship crossings of the Strait of Hormuz: 47 inbound (westbound, into the Gulf) and 51 outbound (eastbound, to the Gulf of Oman), 29 of them by tankers. That is an average of 7.5 a day over 13 days, about 9% of the pre-crisis baseline of 84.8 a day. IMF PortWatch recorded 53 transits over the same days.
Not a full month. Our crossing data starts on 19 October 2026, so this page covers 19 to 31 October 2026 only: 13 of the month's 31 days. The totals are for those days, not for all of October 2026.
Crossings in October 2026
Live traffic →- Days covered
- 19 to 31 October 2026 (13 of 31 days)
- Daily average
- 7.5 a day
- Busiest day
- 30 Oct: 13 crossings
- Days with no crossings
- 1 of 13
- IMF PortWatch
- 53 transits on 13 days (4.1 a day)
- Pre-crisis baseline
- 84.8 a day
On the 13 days with an IMF PortWatch figure, PortWatch recorded 53 transits and hormuz.now 98 crossings. The two count different things: why counts differ between sources.
October 2026, day by day
All days as CSV →Commercial ships crossing the Strait of Hormuz on each UTC day. Select a date for that day's page, which lists every crossing ship by ship.
| Date (UTC) | Total | IMF PortWatch |
|---|---|---|
| Mon 19 Oct0 in · 0 out | 0 | 4 |
| Tue 20 Oct2 in · 5 out | 7 | 3 |
| Wed 21 Oct7 in · 4 out | 11 | 3 |
| Thu 22 Oct5 in · 1 out | 6 | 4 |
| Fri 23 Oct7 in · 2 out | 9 | 5 |
| Sat 24 Oct3 in · 3 out | 6 | 2 |
| Sun 25 Oct2 in · 2 out | 4 | 2 |
| Mon 26 Oct4 in · 4 out | 8 | 5 |
| Tue 27 Oct2 in · 3 out | 5 | 4 |
| Wed 28 Oct0 in · 6 out | 6 | 3 |
| Thu 29 Oct3 in · 8 out | 11 | 3 |
| Fri 30 Oct8 in · 5 out | 13 | 7 |
| Sat 31 Oct4 in · 8 out | 12 | 8 |
| Total47 in · 51 out | 98 | 53 |
Days run 00:00–24:00 UTC. We count commercial ships (cargo ships and tankers of 80 m or more) with AIS switched on, at most once per direction per day, so a ship that crosses on two days is counted on each. Ships that switch off AIS are not counted. The IMF PortWatch total covers only the days it has published. How we count.
Back to Strait of Hormuz traffic today for live counts, charts and the daily archive, or download every day as CSV (CC BY 4.0). See also the live ship map and the crisis timeline.
Live AIS data as of · 1,428 vessels visible in the region. Counts are AIS-visible only and miss ships running dark. How we count.