KMIA · MIA · Miami, Florida

Planes near MIA: live flight tracking at Miami International

Miami International (MIA / KMIA) serves Miami, Florida, United States. The Caribbean and Latin American crossroads, with a heavy freight component.

25.796°N, 80.290°W · snapshot written 29 August 2026 at 02:58 UTC

The live map

Aircraft the volunteer receiver network can currently hear around Miami. 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 29 August 2026 at 02:58 UTC. This page refreshes by itself while it is open.

These are transitions the receiver network actually observed at MIA, 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.

Most recent first. Times are UTC. Recording is continuous, so a short list here means quiet hours or a thin view of the surface, not a quiet airport.
Time	Movement	Flight	Aircraft
02:58 UTC	Departure	IBE03LW	A333 · EC-LZJ
02:56 UTC	Departure	AEA098	B789 · EC-NFM
02:55 UTC	Arrival	AAL1779	B738 · N839NN
02:52 UTC	Arrival	AAL1159	A321 · N972UY
02:51 UTC	Departure	AAL2311	A21N · N409AA
02:48 UTC	Arrival	N99RJ	F2TH
02:48 UTC	Arrival	C-FTCA	B763
02:44 UTC	Arrival	DAL2187	B739 · N889DN
02:43 UTC	Departure	ENY3712	E75L · N288NN
02:41 UTC	Departure	N357TY	not identified
02:41 UTC	Arrival	AAL2206	A21N · N465AN
02:40 UTC	Departure	AAL3265	B38M · N326VN

Showing the most recent 12 of 21 in the current recording 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 MIA. 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 36

Aircraft whose callsign most often ends at MIA, nearest first. Distance is straight line from the field, not track miles.
Flight	From	Altitude	Ground speed	Distance
DAL1428B739 · N902DN	New YorkKJFK / JFK	825 ft	142 kt	4 nmW of the field
FFT1665A20N · N396FR	BaltimoreKBWI / BWI	9,525 ft	303 kt	16 nmNNE of the field
AAL3265B38M · N326VN	PhiladelphiaKPHL / PHL	15,075 ft	431 kt	107 nmNNW of the field
DAL1234B752 · N688DL	AtlantaKATL / ATL	37,000 ft	461 kt	172 nmNW of the field
ACA7252B763 · C-FXCA	TorontoCYYZ / YYZ	40,000 ft	470 kt	206 nmNNE of the field
DAL2382N958DZ	New YorkKLGA / LGA	36,000 ft	457 kt	316 nmNNE of the field
CSB7512B763 · N1487A	BaltimoreKBWI / BWI	40,025 ft	443 kt	512 nmNNE of the field
CSB7511B763 · N1399A	Cincinnati / CovingtonKCVG / CVG	35,025 ft	433 kt	521 nmNNW of the field
DAL2300B738 · N3762Y	New YorkKLGA / LGA	37,000 ft	498 kt	596 nmNNE of the field
AAL821A319 · N838AW	PhoenixKPHX / PHX	34,975 ft	493 kt	629 nmNW of the field
AAL873B738 · N931NN	BostonKBOS / BOS	18,025 ft	368 kt	648 nmNNE of the field
AAL2936A321 · N542UW	PhiladelphiaKPHL / PHL	35,500 ft	405 kt	668 nmNNE of the field
AAL1325A319 · N814AW	LouisvilleKSDF / SDF	31,975 ft	363 kt	700 nmN of the field
AAL815B738 · N915AN	BostonKBOS / BOS	36,000 ft	443 kt	711 nmN of the field
DAL776B738 · N3764D	BostonKBOS / BOS	37,000 ft	502 kt	734 nmNNE of the field
SWA3405B737 · N7858A	St LouisKSTL / STL	7,825 ft	286 kt	799 nmNNE of the field
AAL2092B738 · N933NN	OrlandoKMCO / MCO	24,000 ft	369 kt	876 nmNNE of the field
AAL3117A319 · N840AW	Dallas-Fort WorthKDFW / DFW	29,000 ft	530 kt	878 nmNNE of the field
AAL3124B738 · N822NN	Los AngelesKLAX / LAX	36,000 ft	441 kt	928 nmWNW of the field
BWA792B763 · N663GT	Port of SpainTTPP / POS	40,025 ft	449 kt	963 nmESE of the field

Outbound nearest 20 of 59

Aircraft whose callsign most often begins at MIA, nearest first. Distance is straight line from the field, not track miles.
Flight	To	Altitude	Ground speed	Distance
TAM8199B789 · CC-BGU	São PauloSBGR / GRU	on the ground	8 kt	0 nmN of the field
BAW34NB78X · G-ZBLJ	LondonEGLL / LHR	on the ground	2 kt	0 nmWNW of the field
IBE03LWA333 · EC-LZJ	MadridLEMD / MAD	1,375 ft	171 kt	3 nmE of the field
FDX115B763 · N131FE	MemphisKMEM / MEM	15,900 ft	407 kt	17 nmNNW of the field
ABX902B763 · N362CM	Cincinnati / CovingtonKCVG / CVG	36,000 ft	443 kt	66 nmSW of the field
DAL2500B739 · N927DZ	New YorkKJFK / JFK	18,775 ft	444 kt	79 nmNE of the field
AAL944N357TY	New YorkKJFK / JFK	27,275 ft	480 kt	98 nmNE of the field
CSB926B763 · C-GVIJ	Cincinnati / CovingtonKCVG / CVG	2,825 ft	239 kt	172 nmNNW of the field
THY6040B77L · TC-LJR	MaastrichtEHBK / MST	36,000 ft	483 kt	226 nmSSW of the field
ENY3893E75L · N219NN	JacksonvilleKJAX / JAX	4,225 ft	276 kt	286 nmNNW of the field
AAL1427B738 · N821NN	AustinKAUS / AUS	36,000 ft	462 kt	324 nmWNW of the field
ENY3897E75L · N240NN	WilmingtonKILM / ILM	36,975 ft	465 kt	378 nmNNE of the field
AAL670B738 · N946NN	Kansas CityKMCI / MCI	38,000 ft	446 kt	416 nmNW of the field
AAL2090A21N · N404AN	OrlandoKMCO / MCO	34,975 ft	460 kt	424 nmWNW of the field
AAL1054A321 · N931AM	BostonKBOS / BOS	33,000 ft	474 kt	428 nmNNE of the field
AAL2008B738 · N316PF	NewarkKEWR / EWR	37,000 ft	461 kt	455 nmNNE of the field
AAL1551B38M · N302UD	MemphisKMEM / MEM	36,000 ft	437 kt	459 nmNW of the field
AAL2716A319 · N724UW	Knoxville/MaryvilleKTYS / TYS	33,400 ft	487 kt	520 nmNNW of the field
AAL1286B738 · N878NN	Raleigh/DurhamKRDU / RDU	29,000 ft	486 kt	521 nmNNE of the field
AAL3252A21N · N401AN	SeattleKSEA / SEA	32,025 ft	470 kt	552 nmWNW of the field

About Miami International

ICAO codeKMIA
IATA codeMIA
ServesMiami
RegionFlorida, United States
Coordinates25.796°N, 80.290°W

Miami International sits just west of downtown Miami, hemmed in by the city on most sides and with the Everglades beginning not far beyond. Its traffic leans hard toward the Caribbean, Central America and South America, and a substantial share of it is freight rather than passengers. Fort Lauderdale is close enough north that the two fields' patterns overlap on any reasonably wide view.

Look at the aircraft types rather than the callsigns. Older widebody freighters that have largely disappeared from other American airports still work this part of the map routinely.

What the codes mean

Airports carry two identifiers and they are not interchangeable. MIA 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. KMIA is the ICAO code: four letters, used by air traffic control, flight planning systems and trackers like this one. Its first letter, K, marks the contiguous United States, 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 Miami 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

The nearest fields with their own live page: