calm · 22 Canal · Atlantic ↔ Pacific

Panama Canal

Central America

Why it matters: Drought-driven draft and transit restrictions periodically throttle a key global artery.

Local map · live AIS

under way slow stationary

Fused signal timeline · 21 days

💨 2.1kt · n/a transit favourable

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

Daily satellite snapshot of Panama Canal — 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

Panama Canal is showing conditions near its structural baseline; open-source coverage is holding steady. No recent open-source reporting was retrieved for the box. Metocean: 2.1 kt wind, sea state n/a — transit favourable.

What changed

›Conditions: 2.1 kt / Bft 1, seas n/a — favourable for transit.
›No other material change in monitored feeds.
›No other material change in monitored feeds.

Metocean conditions

Wind2.1 kt

Gusts4.5 kt

Beaufort1

Wave ht— m

Swell— m

Visibility13.3 km

Sea staten/a

Transit favourable

Open-Meteo, box centroid, at build time.

Updated 7 Sept 2026, 10:21 UTC · narrator: rule-based · bbox [-80.05, 8.85, -79.45, 9.45]