VHHH · HKG · Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Planes near HKG: live flight tracking at Hong Kong International
Hong Kong International (HKG / VHHH) serves Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong. A reclaimed island field with mountains close by and an enormous freight operation.
The live map
Aircraft the volunteer receiver network can currently hear around Hong Kong. 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 HKG, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 02:57 UTC | Arrival | BLVB | CL60 · B-LVB |
| 02:57 UTC | Departure | SIA7980 | B744 · 9V-SFK |
| 02:55 UTC | Departure | CPA506 | B773 · B-HNI |
| 02:55 UTC | Arrival | CPA361 | B773 · B-HNN |
| 02:51 UTC | Departure | CRK082 | A333 · B-LHR |
| 02:48 UTC | Arrival | HGB383 | B738 · B-KJA |
| 02:48 UTC | Departure | CAL602 | A21N · B-18109 |
| 02:47 UTC | Departure | CPA986 | A333 · B-LBE |
| 02:47 UTC | Arrival | CPA786 | A21N · B-HPK |
| 02:46 UTC | Departure | CES724 | A332 · B-5968 |
| 02:45 UTC | Departure | HKE870 | A21N · B-KKL |
| 02:41 UTC | Departure | CCA108 | B38M · B-224T |
Showing the most recent 12 of 34 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 HKG. 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 22
| Flight | From | Altitude | Ground speed | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPA624A359 · B-LRE | BengaluruVOBL / BLR | on the ground | 6 kt | 0 nmSSE of the field |
| HKE857A21N · B-KKC | NaritaRJAA / NRT | 900 ft | 134 kt | 2 nmNE of the field |
| CPA710A359 · B-LQE | SingaporeWSSS / SIN | 4,850 ft | 197 kt | 18 nmENE of the field |
| SIA874A359 · 9V-SHN | SingaporeWSSS / SIN | 5,200 ft | 238 kt | 24 nmE of the field |
| TWB643B738 · HL8069 | SeoulRKSI / ICN | 6,350 ft | 251 kt | 31 nmE of the field |
| AAR721A21N · HL8511 | SeoulRKSI / ICN | 31,000 ft | 470 kt | 125 nmE of the field |
| ANA859B763 · JA625A | TokyoRJTT / HND | 38,000 ft | 460 kt | 207 nmE of the field |
| CPA503A333 · B-LBC | OsakaRJBB / KIX | 40,000 ft | 484 kt | 486 nmENE of the field |
| CEB142A21N · RP-C4146 | Manila (Pasay)RPLL / MNL | 17,200 ft | 378 kt | 588 nmSE of the field |
| PAL318A321 · RP-C9912 | Manila (Pasay)RPLL / MNL | on the ground | 0 kt | 619 nmSE of the field |
| CPA2074B744 · B-LIE | SingaporeWSSS / SIN | 29,000 ft | 460 kt | 622 nmSW of the field |
| CPA563A21N · B-HPJ | TokonameRJGG / NGO | 35,975 ft | 490 kt | 744 nmENE of the field |
| CPA543B773 · B-HNQ | TokyoRJTT / HND | 38,000 ft | 489 kt | 1,106 nmNE of the field |
| JAL29B789 · JA869J | TokyoRJTT / HND | 32,000 ft | 509 kt | 1,191 nmNE of the field |
| QTR818B77W · A7-BOH | DohaOTHH / DOH | 35,000 ft | 472 kt | 2,026 nmW of the field |
| QFA29A333 · VH-QPJ | MelbourneYMML / MEL | 38,400 ft | 456 kt | 2,956 nmSSE of the field |
| CPA162A359 · B-LQF | Sydney (Mascot)YSSY / SYD | 39,000 ft | 493 kt | 3,023 nmSE of the field |
| UAE384A388 · A6-EEY | BangkokVTBS / BKK | 5,425 ft | 284 kt | 3,194 nmWNW of the field |
| CPA150A359 · B-LRR | BrisbaneYBBN / BNE | 35,925 ft | 449 kt | 3,631 nmSE of the field |
| BOX738B77L · D-AALO | ManamaOBBI / BAH | 35,000 ft | 506 kt | 4,445 nmNW of the field |
Outbound nearest 20 of 46
| Flight | To | Altitude | Ground speed | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HKE668A21N · B-KKO | FukuokaRJFF / FUK | on the ground | 9 kt | 0 nmNW of the field |
| CRK618A321 · B-LPX | OsakaRJBB / KIX | on the ground | 3 kt | 0 nmENE of the field |
| HKE690A21N · B-KKF | TokonameRJGG / NGO | on the ground | 11 kt | 0 nmNE of the field |
| CPA506B773 · B-HNI | OsakaRJBB / KIX | 7,650 ft | 321 kt | 14 nmSW of the field |
| CAL602A21N · B-18109 | TaoyuanRCTP / TPE | 20,450 ft | 422 kt | 35 nmSE of the field |
| HKE870A21N · B-KKL | NaritaRJAA / NRT | 25,575 ft | 438 kt | 52 nmESE of the field |
| CRK640A321 · B-LPW | FukuokaRJFF / FUK | 28,575 ft | 430 kt | 92 nmESE of the field |
| MDA984B738 · B-18653 | Kaohsiung (Xiaogang)RCKH / KHH | 33,000 ft | 464 kt | 188 nmE of the field |
| CPA494A21N · B-HPH | TaoyuanRCTP / TPE | 32,975 ft | 468 kt | 213 nmE of the field |
| CPA410B773 · B-HNU | SeoulRKSI / ICN | 35,000 ft | 489 kt | 242 nmE of the field |
| HKE630A321 · B-LEI | SeoulRKSI / ICN | 33,000 ft | 457 kt | 279 nmENE of the field |
| GTI648B744 · N416MC | AnchoragePANC / ANC | 29,000 ft | 514 kt | 318 nmENE of the field |
| CPA432B77W · B-KPZ | Kaohsiung (Xiaogang)RCKH / KHH | 3,750 ft | 0 kt | 346 nmE of the field |
| HKE848A21N · B-KKP | NaritaRJAA / NRT | 34,975 ft | 455 kt | 358 nmENE of the field |
| ANA812B788 · JA835A | NaritaRJAA / NRT | 41,000 ft | 472 kt | 409 nmENE of the field |
| CRK608A333 · B-LHL | NaritaRJAA / NRT | 37,000 ft | 471 kt | 426 nmENE of the field |
| CPA466A35K · B-LXA | TaoyuanRCTP / TPE | on the ground | 4 kt | 435 nmENE of the field |
| CPA580B77W · B-KPE | SapporoRJCC / CTS | 35,000 ft | 480 kt | 492 nmENE of the field |
| CPA830B77W · B-KPD | New YorkKJFK / JFK | 31,000 ft | 490 kt | 497 nmENE of the field |
| HKE674A21N · B-KKD | RKPE | 34,975 ft | 446 kt | 501 nmENE of the field |
About Hong Kong International
- ICAO codeVHHH
- IATA codeHKG
- ServesHong Kong
- RegionHong Kong, Hong Kong
- Coordinates22.312°N, 113.915°E
Hong Kong International sits at Chek Lap Kok, on land reclaimed around a small island west of the city, with steep terrain nearby on Lantau and the mainland. It runs one of the largest air freight operations in the world alongside its passenger traffic, so the aircraft mix skews toward large types at all hours. The Pearl River delta around it is thick with other busy airports.
Typhoon season is the dramatic period. When a storm approaches, traffic clears out over a day or so and returns in a compressed rush, and the before-and-after difference on the map is stark.
What the codes mean
Airports carry two identifiers and they are not interchangeable.
HKG 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.
VHHH is the ICAO code: four letters, used by air traffic
control, flight planning systems and trackers like this one. Its first
two letters, VH, marks
Hong Kong, 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 Hong Kong 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:
