LFPG · CDG · Paris, Île-de-France
Planes near CDG: live flight tracking at Paris Charles de Gaulle
Paris Charles de Gaulle (CDG / LFPG) serves Paris, Île-de-France, France. A very large field northeast of Paris, with heavy freight alongside the passenger flow.
The live map
Aircraft the volunteer receiver network can currently hear around Paris. 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 CDG, 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 CDG. 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 53
| Flight | From | Altitude | Ground speed | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AFR841B77W · F-GSQR | Fort-de-FranceTFFF / FDF | 20,950 ft | 423 kt | 71 nmWSW of the field |
| AFR279B77W · F-GSQY | TokyoRJTT / HND | 28,675 ft | 426 kt | 97 nmNE of the field |
| UPS22B748 · N620UP | Köln (Cologne)EDDK / CGN | 24,000 ft | 392 kt | 112 nmNE of the field |
| AFR343B77W · F-GZNN | MontréalCYUL / YUL | 32,400 ft | 499 kt | 112 nmWNW of the field |
| QFA255B789 · VH-ZNG | SingaporeWSSS / SIN | 33,975 ft | 424 kt | 147 nmE of the field |
| AFR185A359 · F-HUVX | Hong KongVHHH / HKG | 39,275 ft | 438 kt | 160 nmE of the field |
| AFR407A359 · F-HTYI | SantiagoSCEL / SCL | 37,225 ft | 548 kt | 170 nmWSW of the field |
| AFR333FA359 · F-HUVJ | BostonKBOS / BOS | 41,000 ft | 528 kt | 176 nmWNW of the field |
| AFR257B77W · F-GZNR | SingaporeWSSS / SIN | 36,000 ft | 445 kt | 205 nmE of the field |
| AFR327B772 · F-GSPL | OttawaCYOW / YOW | 39,000 ft | 499 kt | 283 nmNW of the field |
| AFR1UB77W · F-GSQC | New YorkKJFK / JFK | 37,000 ft | 529 kt | 288 nmWNW of the field |
| AFR283B772 · F-GSPA | New DelhiVIDP / DEL | 38,025 ft | 450 kt | 362 nmE of the field |
| BCS2EVB763 · OE-LYD | SchkeuditzEDDP / LEJ | on the ground | 0 kt | 399 nmENE of the field |
| AFR3TB77W · F-GSQE | New YorkKJFK / JFK | 37,000 ft | 522 kt | 547 nmWNW of the field |
| AFR719B77W · F-GZNU | DakarGOBD / DSS | 36,000 ft | 505 kt | 582 nmSW of the field |
| MAS20A359 · 9M-MAG | SepangWMKK / KUL | 40,000 ft | 435 kt | 584 nmE of the field |
| DAL96A339 · N427DX | DetroitKDTW / DTW | 38,000 ft | 500 kt | 590 nmWNW of the field |
| MNB9398A321 · TC-MYA | Nottingham, LeicestershiEGNX / EMA | 35,000 ft | 482 kt | 598 nmESE of the field |
| AFR453B77W · F-GSQA | São PauloSBGR / GRU | 36,000 ft | 496 kt | 654 nmSW of the field |
| AFR829B772 · F-GSPJ | NairobiHKJK / NBO | 36,000 ft | 457 kt | 698 nmSE of the field |
Outbound 5 aircraft
| Flight | To | Altitude | Ground speed | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AFR454B77W · F-GSQG | São PauloSBGR / GRU | 32,000 ft | 491 kt | 2,400 nmSW of the field |
| UAE93PA388 · A6-EOJ | DubaiOMDB / DXB | 22,050 ft | 426 kt | 2,886 nmE of the field |
| AIC142B788 · VT-ANM | New DelhiVIDP / DEL | 41,000 ft | 472 kt | 3,191 nmE of the field |
| DAL291A359 · N514DN | Los AngelesKLAX / LAX | on the ground | 0 kt | 4,915 nmNW of the field |
| AFR292B789 · F-HRBC | OsakaRJBB / KIX | 13,750 ft | 311 kt | 5,161 nmNE of the field |
About Paris Charles de Gaulle
- ICAO codeLFPG
- IATA codeCDG
- ServesParis
- RegionÎle-de-France, France
- Coordinates49.009°N, 2.554°E
Charles de Gaulle sits northeast of Paris on flat farmland, with plenty of room around it. It combines a major long-haul passenger operation with a large overnight freight one, so the traffic pattern here has two distinct daily peaks rather than one. Orly, on the other side of the city, handles a different mix and appears in the same wide view.
The freight peak in the small hours is easy to miss and worth catching. It looks structurally different from the daytime flow: fewer aircraft, larger ones, arriving and leaving within a compressed window.
What the codes mean
Airports carry two identifiers and they are not interchangeable.
CDG 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.
LFPG is the ICAO code: four letters, used by air traffic
control, flight planning systems and trackers like this one. Its first
two letters, LF, marks
France, 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 Paris 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:
