calm · 37 Strait · Persian Gulf ↔ Gulf of Oman

Strait of Hormuz

Persian Gulf

Why it matters: Roughly a fifth of global oil passes here; recurrent tanker seizures and GPS jamming.

Local map · live AIS

under way slow stationary

Fused signal timeline · 21 days

💨 4.6kt · calm-smooth transit favourable

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

Daily satellite snapshot of Strait of Hormuz — 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

Strait of Hormuz is showing conditions near its structural baseline; open-source coverage is holding steady. No recent open-source reporting was retrieved for the box. Metocean: 4.6 kt wind, 0.28 m seas — transit favourable.

What changed

›Conditions: 4.6 kt / Bft 2, seas calm-smooth — favourable for transit.
›No other material change in monitored feeds.
›No other material change in monitored feeds.

Metocean conditions

Wind4.6 kt

Gusts13.6 kt

Beaufort2

Wave ht0.28 m

Swell0.16 m

Visibility25.5 km

Sea statecalm-smooth

Transit favourable

Open-Meteo, box centroid, at build time.

Updated 7 Sept 2026, 10:21 UTC · narrator: rule-based · bbox [55.4, 25.4, 57.6, 27.1]