🇬🇧 United Kingdom in Skydex
The UK fits 7 mapped cities onto one rainy island. London is the busiest sky in Western Europe; Edinburgh and Manchester are quieter, and the weather page is worth reading first.
Seen on the water around United Kingdom last 30 days, AIS via the Skydex feed
1,938 vessels on 31 days · 9,702 sightings (one vessel on one day) · type known for 1,464 of them.
📡 205 of them were heard by a Skydex volunteer receiver rather than by the upstream feed. Run one here
772× cargo ships223× tankers197× tugs144× passenger ships80× high-speed craft48× fishing vessels806× 🇬🇧 United Kingdom171× 🇳🇱 Netherlands109× 🇵🇹 Portugal97× 🇲🇹 Malta89× 🇱🇷 Liberia78× 🇦🇬 Antigua and Barbuda74× 🇨🇾 Cyprus62× 🇲🇭 Marshall Islands
Counted from the AIS positions the Skydex feed received here — sampled once a day in local daytime, plus whenever pilots fly here — not a port register. Ship tracking
Activity in United Kingdom
Busiest cities this week
- 1London23 flights · 4 pilots
- 2Belfast2 flights · 1 pilot
- 3Birmingham1 flights
- 4Manchester1 flights · 1 pilot
- 5Cardiff1 flights · 1 pilot
Today10 flights2 pilots10 visits
This week33 flights7 pilots35 visits
This month158 flights20 pilots166 visits
Visitors came from 13 countries this month.
“Pilots” counts signed-in players; “visits” counts sessions, not unique people.
Recent activity across United Kingdom
Flying spots in United Kingdom
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