calm · 41 Strait · Red Sea ↔ Gulf of Aden

Bab-el-Mandeb

Red Sea — southern gate

Why it matters: Chokepoint for Europe–Asia trade; sustained attacks on merchant shipping since 2023.

Local map · live AIS

under way slow stationary

Fused signal timeline · 21 days

💨 12.1kt · slight transit favourable

No dated open-source events in the last 21 days for this box.

Daily satellite snapshot of Bab-el-Mandeb — Daily satellite context NASA GIBS · VIIRS/NOAA-20 true color · 2026-09-06 Daily true-color snapshot (2026-09-06) — context only; too coarse to resolve individual vessels. Open in NASA Worldview ↗

Assessment

Bab-el-Mandeb is showing conditions near its structural baseline; open-source coverage is holding steady. No recent open-source reporting was retrieved for the box. Metocean: 12.1 kt wind, 0.58 m seas — transit favourable.

What changed

›Conditions: 12.1 kt / Bft 4, seas slight — favourable for transit.
›No other material change in monitored feeds.
›No other material change in monitored feeds.

Metocean conditions

Wind12.1 kt

Gusts22 kt

Beaufort4

Wave ht0.58 m

Swell0.14 m

Visibility27.4 km

Sea stateslight

Transit favourable

Open-Meteo, box centroid, at build time.

Updated 7 Sept 2026, 10:21 UTC · narrator: rule-based · bbox [42.4, 12, 44.6, 14.2]