EDDM · MUC · Munich, Bavaria
Planes near MUC: live flight tracking at Munich Airport
Munich Airport (MUC / EDDM) serves Munich, Bavaria, Germany. North of the city on marshy flatland, with the Alps a short way south.
The live map
Aircraft the volunteer receiver network can currently hear around Munich. The frame is fixed on the field; tap or click an aircraft to open its full details.
Nothing here is filtered. Military aircraft, aircraft in the FAA's LADD privacy programme and aircraft using temporary addresses all appear the same way anything else does. Open the full map to pan, zoom and switch layers.
Movements we watched happen
Snapshot written . This page refreshes by itself while it is open.
These are transitions the receiver network actually observed at MUC, each with the time it was seen. Nothing here is guessed from a timetable.
Why there may be fewer departures than arrivals
A departure is only counted once a receiver has seen the aircraft on the ground here first. That guard stops us inventing takeoffs for aircraft that merely flew overhead, and it costs us real ones: hearing an aircraft sitting on an airport surface needs a receiver with line of sight to that surface, which is the hardest reception there is. An arrival only needs the aircraft to have been seen airborne, and airborne coverage is very good.
So at any airport without a clear view of the ground, this list will show fewer departures than actually happened. If you see more arrivals than departures below, read that as a fact about where the antennas are, not about the airport.
| Time | Movement | Flight | Aircraft |
|---|---|---|---|
| No movements have been watched here in the current recording window. This list fills continuously, and a short one usually means quiet hours or a thin view of the airport surface rather than an empty airport. | |||
Nothing recorded here yet in the current window.
What appears to be inbound and outbound right now
Where the aircraft in range right now are most likely heading, worked out from their callsigns rather than watched happening.
How this list is built
We take the aircraft the receiver network can currently hear, read the callsign each one is broadcasting, and look that callsign up in an index of the routes it has actually flown before. An entry means this callsign's most commonly observed route ends at MUC. That is a good guide to where a flight is going. It is not a flight plan: nobody has told us today's routing, and we would rather say that than dress an inference up as a schedule.
The consequences are worth knowing. A diversion or an unusual routing will be listed wrong. A charter, a positioning leg, or any flight the index has not seen before is missing entirely. You will occasionally see an aircraft here sitting on the ground on the far side of a continent, which is the method showing its working rather than hiding it. There are no scheduled times or arrival estimates on this page because neither can be computed honestly from what we hold.
For gates, delays and cancellations the airline and the airport are authoritative. This page is for what is actually in the air.
Inbound nearest 20 of 24
| Flight | From | Altitude | Ground speed | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DLH773A359 · D-AIXI | BangkokVTBS / BKK | 3,700 ft | 238 kt | 9 nmE of the field |
| DLH1743A20N · D-AINL | IstanbulLTFM / IST | 6,750 ft | 216 kt | 21 nmE of the field |
| DLH769A359 · D-AIXM | SingaporeWSSS / SIN | 10,000 ft | 235 kt | 34 nmE of the field |
| LHX1CFA319 · D-ASTX | TimişoaraLRTR / TSR | 950 ft | 140 kt | 420 nmESE of the field |
| ICE534A320 · TF-IAT | ReykjavíkBIKF / KEF | 37,000 ft | 489 kt | 427 nmNW of the field |
| GFA87SA21N · A9C-NC | ManamaOBBI / BAH | 30,000 ft | 432 kt | 481 nmESE of the field |
| DLH763A388 · D-AIMA | New DelhiVIDP / DEL | 36,000 ft | 434 kt | 534 nmESE of the field |
| ANA217B789 · JA873A | TokyoRJTT / HND | 39,000 ft | 497 kt | 617 nmNW of the field |
| UAL30B772 · N795UA | NewarkKEWR / EWR | 37,000 ft | 493 kt | 772 nmWNW of the field |
| DLH587A20N · D-AINT | CairoHECA / CAI | 37,975 ft | 394 kt | 793 nmSE of the field |
| DLH767A388 · D-AIML | MumbaiVABB / BOM | 38,000 ft | 468 kt | 848 nmESE of the field |
| DLH437A359 · D-AIXV | ChicagoKORD / ORD | 39,000 ft | 525 kt | 919 nmWNW of the field |
| CPA301A359 · B-LQG | Hong KongVHHH / HKG | 38,000 ft | 489 kt | 1,184 nmESE of the field |
| DLH413A359 · D-AIXX | NewarkKEWR / EWR | 39,000 ft | 586 kt | 2,907 nmWNW of the field |
| DLH495A359 · D-AIVC | TorontoCYYZ / YYZ | 39,000 ft | 570 kt | 2,938 nmWNW of the field |
| UAL102B772 · N78009 | HoustonKIAH / IAH | 37,000 ft | 598 kt | 3,089 nmWNW of the field |
| DLH4WA359 · D-AIVB | CharlotteKCLT / CLT | 39,000 ft | 568 kt | 3,721 nmWNW of the field |
| DLH4CA359 · D-AIXW | ChicagoKORD / ORD | on the ground | 3 kt | 3,925 nmNW of the field |
| DLH505A359 · D-AIXN | São PauloSBGR / GRU | 37,025 ft | 511 kt | 4,052 nmSW of the field |
| DLH2PA359 · D-AIXT | San DiegoKSAN / SAN | 39,000 ft | 554 kt | 4,129 nmNW of the field |
Outbound 4 aircraft
| Flight | To | Altitude | Ground speed | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UAE35QB77W · A6-EBR | DubaiOMDB / DXB | 35,000 ft | 504 kt | 2,458 nmESE of the field |
| ETD128B789 · A6-BLD | Abu DhabiOMAA / AUH | 13,625 ft | 317 kt | 2,501 nmESE of the field |
| DLH772A359 · D-AIXG | BangkokVTBS / BKK | 41,000 ft | 489 kt | 2,865 nmE of the field |
| DLH768A359 · D-AIXQ | SingaporeWSSS / SIN | 39,000 ft | 510 kt | 2,898 nmE of the field |
About Munich Airport
- ICAO codeEDDM
- IATA codeMUC
- ServesMunich
- RegionBavaria, Germany
- Coordinates48.354°N, 11.786°E
Munich sits northeast of the city on the Erdinger Moos, flat former marshland with room to spread. The Alps begin a relatively short distance to the south, and traffic heading that way climbs over rapidly rising ground. It is the second of Germany's two large connecting hubs and handles a broad mix of European and long-haul services.
Look south across the Alps on a wide view. Aircraft crossing the range are high, and the mountain wave that forms in strong winds over the Alps is a well known source of turbulence for exactly those flights.
What the codes mean
Airports carry two identifiers and they are not interchangeable.
MUC is the IATA code: three letters, the one printed on a
boarding pass and a baggage tag, assigned for commercial purposes and reused across
the world without any geographic logic.
EDDM is the ICAO code: four letters, used by air traffic
control, flight planning systems and trackers like this one. Its first
two letters, ED, marks
Germany, because ICAO allocates the code space by region.
The callsigns in the lists above are a third thing again. A callsign is what the crew typed into the transponder for this leg, so it changes flight by flight, while the registration and the 24-bit hex address stay with the airframe. When a callsign and a registration disagree, the registration is usually the more reliable of the two.
How to read the numbers
Altitude is pressure altitude, which is what the aircraft's air data system reads with a standard pressure setting. It is not height above the ground and it is not always the altitude the crew is flying to. Near Munich that gap is most obvious on approach, when a tracker can show a figure that does not match what is on the flight deck.
Ground speed is speed across the earth, not through the air. A strong tailwind can add a hundred knots or more to it without the aircraft flying any faster, which is why two aircraft at the same level going opposite ways can show wildly different numbers. Track is the direction of travel over the ground, which is not the direction the nose is pointing when there is any crosswind at all.
Aircraft go missing from this map for reasons that have nothing to do with the aircraft. Reception is line of sight, so terrain and distance cut it off abruptly; a good deal of light aviation in the United States broadcasts on 978 MHz rather than 1090 MHz; and plenty of aircraft, including gliders and older light types, carry no ADS-B at all and are not required to. How ADS-B works covers all of that properly.
Other airports on the map
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