What is WHEREPLANES?
WHEREPLANES is a free, real-time 3D flight tracker. It plots every airborne aircraft on Earth on an interactive globe — no signup, no app, straight in your browser. Click any plane to see its airline, route, aircraft type and the glowing vapour trail of the path it has actually flown.
How many planes are in the sky right now?
Right now WHEREPLANES is tracking … airborne aircraft. At any given moment there are typically 8,000–13,000 planes in the air worldwide, peaking during the overlap of the European and North American daytime.
Where does the data come from?
Live positions come from airplanes.live, a community network of ADS-B receivers, refreshed every minute. Airline, route and airframe details come from adsbdb. Between updates, each aircraft's position is extrapolated from its reported speed and heading.
What is squawk 7700?
7700 is the transponder code a crew sets to declare a general emergency. 7600 means radio failure, 7500 means unlawful interference. WHEREPLANES highlights any aircraft squawking these codes in flashing red, worldwide, as it happens.
Planes above your city
Want just your patch of sky? See live aircraft over London, New York, Tokyo, Dubai — or all cities.