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Gulf airspace

How busy is Gulf airspace now?

The Persian Gulf averaged 1,535 aircraft a day in September 2026, against 602 in 1 to 14 Jun before the ceasefire and 1,429 in 22 to 30 Jun after it.

Window: 1 Jun to 30 Sep 2026. Data as of 26 October 2026. Updated: refreshed by each Monday edition.

05001,0001,5001 to 14 Jun: 6026021 to 14 Jun22 to 30 Jun: 1,4291,42922 to 30 JunSeptember: 1,5351,535Septemberaircraft a day, Persian Gulf
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Aircraft counts come from crowd-sourced receivers and are an index of traffic, not a census. The Tehran area has almost no receiver coverage and is not shown.

Questions

Did Gulf air traffic recover after the June ceasefire?

Yes, in the record: the Persian Gulf zone more than doubled within two weeks of the 17 Jun ceasefire and September ran higher still.

How this figure is made

Daily aircraft counts per airspace zone from crowd-sourced ADS-B receivers, averaged over each window. Methodology.

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Conflict Gauge: Iran (MergeSeat). "How busy is Gulf airspace now?". https://conflictgauge.com/answers/gulf-airspace-traffic. Data as of 26 October 2026. Page version v1, published 2026-10-28. Accessed <date>.
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