calm · 24 Strait · Indian Ocean ↔ South China Sea

Strait of Malacca

Singapore · Indonesia

Why it matters: The busiest strait on earth; chronic armed-robbery hotspot for anchored and transiting ships.

Local map · live AIS

under way slow stationary

Fused signal timeline · 21 days

💨 4.6kt · n/a transit favourable

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

Daily satellite snapshot of Strait of Malacca — 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 Malacca 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, sea state n/a — transit favourable.

What changed

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

Metocean conditions

Wind4.6 kt

Gusts10.5 kt

Beaufort2

Wave ht— m

Swell— m

Visibility11.2 km

Sea staten/a

Transit favourable

Open-Meteo, box centroid, at build time.

Updated 7 Sept 2026, 10:21 UTC · narrator: rule-based · bbox [100, 1, 104.2, 4.2]