calm · 35 Strait · East China Sea ↔ South China Sea

Taiwan Strait

East Asia

Why it matters: A majority of the world’s largest ships transit here; standing cross-strait military pressure.

Local map · live AIS

under way slow stationary

Fused signal timeline · 21 days

💨 11kt · slight transit favourable

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

Daily satellite snapshot of Taiwan 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

Taiwan 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: 11 kt wind, 1.24 m seas — transit favourable.

What changed

›Conditions: 11 kt / Bft 4, seas slight — favourable for transit.
›No other material change in monitored feeds.
›No other material change in monitored feeds.

Metocean conditions

Wind11 kt

Gusts14.2 kt

Beaufort4

Wave ht1.24 m

Swell1.2 m

Visibility22.6 km

Sea stateslight

Transit favourable

Open-Meteo, box centroid, at build time.

Updated 7 Sept 2026, 10:21 UTC · narrator: rule-based · bbox [118, 23, 121.2, 25.6]