SBGR · GRU · São Paulo, São Paulo
Planes near GRU: live flight tracking at São Paulo/Guarulhos International
São Paulo/Guarulhos International (GRU / SBGR) serves São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. South America’s main long-haul gateway, on a plateau above the coast.
The live map
Aircraft the volunteer receiver network can currently hear around São Paulo. 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
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These are transitions the receiver network actually observed at GRU, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 02:58 UTC | Departure | PR-GKB | B738 |
| 02:57 UTC | Departure | TAM8016 | A20N · PR-XBX |
| 02:55 UTC | Departure | TAM3382 | A20N · PR-XBW |
| 02:55 UTC | Arrival | PLS9003 | E295 · PS-LMP |
| 02:53 UTC | Departure | GLO1246 | B38M · PR-XMP |
| 02:52 UTC | Arrival | LAN1142 | B788 · CC-BBF |
| 02:49 UTC | Arrival | GTI8782 | B748 · N853GT |
| 02:48 UTC | Departure | TAM3198 | A20N · PS-LHM |
| 02:47 UTC | Departure | TAM4708 | A21N · PS-LBG |
| 02:46 UTC | Arrival | CMP725 | B39M · HP-9906CMP |
| 02:45 UTC | Departure | AZU4152 | A21N · PR-YJB |
| 02:44 UTC | Departure | TAM3618 | A20N · PR-XBV |
Showing the most recent 12 of 25 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 GRU. 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 10 aircraft
| Flight | From | Altitude | Ground speed | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ETH507A359 · ET-AVE | Buenos Aires (Ezeiza)SAEZ / EZE | 41,000 ft | 570 kt | 651 nmSW of the field |
| LTG6572B763 · PR-ACO | CampinasSBKP / VCP | 34,000 ft | 488 kt | 695 nmNW of the field |
| DAL105A333 · N831NW | AtlantaKATL / ATL | 35,000 ft | 497 kt | 2,369 nmNW of the field |
| AFR454B77W · F-GSQG | Paris (Roissy-en-France,LFPG / CDG | 32,000 ft | 491 kt | 2,681 nmNNE of the field |
| UAL62B789 · N19986 | HoustonKIAH / IAH | 36,975 ft | 510 kt | 3,200 nmNNW of the field |
| TAM8199B789 · CC-BGU | MiamiKMIA / MIA | on the ground | 8 kt | 3,550 nmNW of the field |
| UAL861B764 · N76055 | DullesKIAD / IAD | on the ground | 0 kt | 4,130 nmNNW of the field |
| DAL227A339 · N403DX | New YorkKJFK / JFK | on the ground | 0 kt | 4,138 nmNNW of the field |
| ACA90B789 · C-FVNB | TorontoCYYZ / YYZ | 34,975 ft | 519 kt | 4,247 nmNNW of the field |
| AAL963B789 · N836AA | Dallas-Fort WorthKDFW / DFW | 18,750 ft | 453 kt | 4,393 nmNW of the field |
Outbound nearest 20 of 24
| Flight | To | Altitude | Ground speed | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TAM8016A20N · PR-XBX | Ciudad de la CostaSUMU / MVD | 4,425 ft | 252 kt | 5 nmENE of the field |
| TAM3382A20N · PR-XBW | RecifeSBRF / REC | 7,375 ft | 288 kt | 11 nmENE of the field |
| TAM4708A21N · PS-LBG | CuritibaSBCT / CWB | 23,550 ft | 368 kt | 36 nmSW of the field |
| AZU4152A21N · PR-YJB | RecifeSBRF / REC | 29,800 ft | 476 kt | 79 nmNE of the field |
| GLO1680B738 · PR-GZI | SBNT | 29,925 ft | 494 kt | 95 nmNE of the field |
| TAM8180B789 · CC-BMC | New YorkKJFK / JFK | 26,175 ft | 470 kt | 101 nmN of the field |
| TAM8086B789 · CC-BGP | Los AngelesKLAX / LAX | 24,075 ft | 478 kt | 103 nmNW of the field |
| AAL906B788 · N875BD | MiamiKMIA / MIA | 36,325 ft | 501 kt | 131 nmNNW of the field |
| DAL104A333 · N813NW | AtlantaKATL / ATL | 27,200 ft | 508 kt | 147 nmNNW of the field |
| TAM3426A21N · PS-LBA | Porto AlegreSBPA / POA | 34,025 ft | 382 kt | 149 nmSW of the field |
| ETH3807B77L · ET-ARI | Buenos Aires (Ezeiza)SAEZ / EZE | 34,000 ft | 421 kt | 228 nmSW of the field |
| ACA91B789 · C-FGEO | TorontoCYYZ / YYZ | 33,975 ft | 546 kt | 407 nmNNW of the field |
| TAM8130A320 · PR-MHU | Buenos Aires (Ezeiza)SAEZ / EZE | 31,975 ft | 396 kt | 409 nmSW of the field |
| TAM3418A20N · PR-XBT | Porto AlegreSBPA / POA | 9,150 ft | 300 kt | 450 nmSW of the field |
| UAL63B789 · N17963 | HoustonKIAH / IAH | 33,975 ft | 501 kt | 751 nmNW of the field |
| TAM8076B789 · CC-BMB | MadridLEMD / MAD | 37,000 ft | 496 kt | 946 nmNNE of the field |
| DAL226A339 · N412DX | New YorkKJFK / JFK | 36,000 ft | 471 kt | 1,059 nmNNW of the field |
| TAM3252A320 · PR-MHM | FortalezaSBFZ / FOR | 34,975 ft | 464 kt | 1,126 nmNNE of the field |
| DLH505A359 · D-AIXN | MunichEDDM / MUC | 37,025 ft | 511 kt | 1,279 nmNNE of the field |
| TAM8114B789 · CC-BGZ | BarcelonaLEBL / BCN | 39,000 ft | 490 kt | 2,644 nmNE of the field |
About São Paulo/Guarulhos International
- ICAO codeSBGR
- IATA codeGRU
- ServesSão Paulo
- RegionSão Paulo, Brazil
- Coordinates23.431°S, 46.470°W
São Paulo/Guarulhos sits northeast of the city on the plateau that rises steeply behind the Brazilian coast. It is the principal long-haul doorway for South America, with services across the Atlantic to Europe and Africa and north to the United States, alongside a dense domestic network. Congonhas, the close-in city airport, sits within the same view and handles a completely different kind of traffic.
Coverage in South America is thinner than in North America or Europe, because it depends entirely on volunteers with receivers. Aircraft over the interior and over the Atlantic will drop out, and their absence says more about rooftops than about flights.
What the codes mean
Airports carry two identifiers and they are not interchangeable.
GRU 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.
SBGR is the ICAO code: four letters, used by air traffic
control, flight planning systems and trackers like this one. Its first
two letters, SB, marks
Brazil, 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 São Paulo 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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