calm · 39 Strait · Black Sea ↔ Sea of Azov

Kerch Strait

Black Sea · Crimea

Why it matters: Contested crossing to the Sea of Azov; bridge strikes and vessel interdiction.

Local map · live AIS

under way slow stationary

Fused signal timeline · 21 days

💨 14.3kt · slight transit favourable

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

Daily satellite snapshot of Kerch 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

Kerch 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: 14.3 kt wind, 0.5 m seas — transit favourable.

What changed

›Conditions: 14.3 kt / Bft 4, seas slight — favourable for transit.
›No other material change in monitored feeds.
›No other material change in monitored feeds.

Metocean conditions

Wind14.3 kt

Gusts25.1 kt

Beaufort4

Wave ht0.5 m

Swell0.06 m

Visibility40.8 km

Sea stateslight

Transit favourable

Open-Meteo, box centroid, at build time.

Updated 7 Sept 2026, 10:21 UTC · narrator: rule-based · bbox [36.3, 45, 36.9, 45.55]