calm · 29 Strait · Black Sea ↔ Marmara

Bosphorus Strait

Türkiye · Istanbul

Why it matters: The only maritime exit from the Black Sea; grain corridor and sanctioned-oil flashpoint.

Local map · live AIS

under way slow stationary

Fused signal timeline · 21 days

💨 9.3kt · calm-smooth transit favourable

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

Daily satellite snapshot of Bosphorus Strait — 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

Bosphorus Strait is showing conditions near its structural baseline; open-source coverage is holding steady. No recent open-source reporting was retrieved for the box. Metocean: 9.3 kt wind, 0.24 m seas — transit favourable.

What changed

›Conditions: 9.3 kt / Bft 3, seas calm-smooth — favourable for transit.
›No other material change in monitored feeds.
›No other material change in monitored feeds.

Metocean conditions

Wind9.3 kt

Gusts24.3 kt

Beaufort3

Wave ht0.24 m

Swell0.08 m

Visibility41.3 km

Sea statecalm-smooth

Transit favourable

Open-Meteo, box centroid, at build time.

Updated 7 Sept 2026, 10:21 UTC · narrator: rule-based · bbox [28.9, 40.9, 29.3, 41.35]