WSSS · SIN · Singapore, Singapore
Planes near SIN: live flight tracking at Singapore Changi
Singapore Changi (SIN / WSSS) serves Singapore, Singapore, Singapore. Almost exactly on the equator, with monsoon convection rather than seasons.
The live map
Aircraft the volunteer receiver network can currently hear around Singapore. 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 SIN, 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 SIN. 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 33
| Flight | From | Altitude | Ground speed | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GIA828B738 · PK-GNH | JakartaWIII / CGK | 9,025 ft | 297 kt | 18 nmSSE of the field |
| SIA103B38M · 9V-MBR | SepangWMKK / KUL | 10,150 ft | 270 kt | 23 nmWNW of the field |
| SIA224B78X · 9V-SCN | PerthYPPH / PER | 16,525 ft | 281 kt | 42 nmSSW of the field |
| MAS611B738 · 9M-MXF | SepangWMKK / KUL | 16,475 ft | 331 kt | 45 nmW of the field |
| THA403A333 · HS-TEP | BangkokVTBS / BKK | 19,225 ft | 382 kt | 78 nmN of the field |
| MAS627B738 · 9M-MLR | SepangWMKK / KUL | 4,650 ft | 265 kt | 152 nmWNW of the field |
| SIA131B38M · 9V-MBG | PenangWMKP / PEN | 25,225 ft | 465 kt | 218 nmNW of the field |
| AIC2115A20N · VT-TQF | New DelhiVIDP / DEL | 37,000 ft | 443 kt | 278 nmNW of the field |
| SIA955A359 · 9V-SMF | JakartaWIII / CGK | 14,100 ft | 376 kt | 437 nmSSE of the field |
| TGW275A320 · 9V-TRU | JakartaWIII / CGK | 7,125 ft | 337 kt | 453 nmSSE of the field |
| SIA935B78X · 9V-SCD | Kuta, BadungWADD / DPS | 40,000 ft | 502 kt | 576 nmSE of the field |
| SIA705B78X · 9V-SCM | BangkokVTBS / BKK | 27,125 ft | 463 kt | 645 nmNNW of the field |
| TNU553A320 · PK-TLA | Kuta, BadungWADD / DPS | 36,000 ft | 440 kt | 674 nmSE of the field |
| EVA215B77W · B-16706 | TaoyuanRCTP / TPE | 28,000 ft | 498 kt | 1,402 nmNE of the field |
| SIA607B78X · 9V-SCR | SeoulRKSI / ICN | 31,975 ft | 509 kt | 1,460 nmNE of the field |
| BBC584B738 · S2-AHV | DhakaVGHS / DAC | 14,475 ft | 376 kt | 1,524 nmNNW of the field |
| SIA238B77W · 9V-SWG | MelbourneYMML / MEL | 34,000 ft | 456 kt | 1,740 nmSE of the field |
| SIA655B78X · 9V-SCZ | FukuokaRJFF / FUK | 37,975 ft | 507 kt | 1,810 nmNE of the field |
| SIA21A359 · 9V-SGG | NewarkKEWR / EWR | 41,000 ft | 475 kt | 2,227 nmNW of the field |
| SIA619B78X · 9V-SDC | OsakaRJBB / KIX | 36,000 ft | 514 kt | 2,350 nmNE of the field |
Outbound nearest 20 of 27
| Flight | To | Altitude | Ground speed | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MYU935 | WARS | 1,900 ft | 202 kt | 4 nmSSW of the field |
| UAE315B77W · A6-ENN | DubaiOMDB / DXB | 20,000 ft | 440 kt | 38 nmNW of the field |
| MXD802B738 · 9M-LCW | SepangWMKK / KUL | 10,750 ft | 288 kt | 158 nmNW of the field |
| SIA223A359 · 9V-SHY | PerthYPPH / PER | 39,000 ft | 496 kt | 491 nmSSE of the field |
| TGW490A21N · 9V-NCB | Kota KinabaluWBKK / BKI | 6,150 ft | 306 kt | 765 nmENE of the field |
| CPA2074B744 · B-LIE | Hong KongVHHH / HKG | 29,000 ft | 460 kt | 821 nmN of the field |
| SIA914A359 · 9V-SHG | Manila (Pasay)RPLL / MNL | 21,875 ft | 414 kt | 1,230 nmNE of the field |
| CPA710A359 · B-LQE | Hong KongVHHH / HKG | 4,850 ft | 197 kt | 1,397 nmNNE of the field |
| SIA874A359 · 9V-SHN | Hong KongVHHH / HKG | 5,200 ft | 238 kt | 1,398 nmNNE of the field |
| AJX802B789 · JA895A | NaritaRJAA / NRT | 39,000 ft | 457 kt | 1,973 nmNE of the field |
| TGW60B788 · 9V-OFL | ViennaLOWW / VIE | 39,975 ft | 445 kt | 3,770 nmNW of the field |
| SIA392A359 · 9V-SMI | IstanbulLTFM / IST | 40,000 ft | 430 kt | 3,878 nmNW of the field |
| SIA302A359 · 9V-SMD | Manchester, Greater MancEGCC / MAN | 40,000 ft | 441 kt | 4,017 nmNW of the field |
| SIA312A359 · 9V-SJB | LondonEGKK / LGW | 40,000 ft | 429 kt | 4,865 nmNW of the field |
| SIA304A359 · 9V-SMS | ZaventemEBBR / BRU | 40,000 ft | 437 kt | 5,019 nmNW of the field |
| SIA324B77W · 9V-SWJ | AmsterdamEHAM / AMS | 36,000 ft | 470 kt | 5,024 nmNW of the field |
| QFA1A388 · VH-OQK | LondonEGLL / LHR | 38,000 ft | 459 kt | 5,041 nmNW of the field |
| SIA356A359 · 9V-SMB | Ferno (VA)LIMC / MXP | 40,000 ft | 434 kt | 5,151 nmNW of the field |
| BAW12B77W · G-STBL | LondonEGLL / LHR | 36,000 ft | 481 kt | 5,201 nmNW of the field |
| SIA322A388 · 9V-SKP | LondonEGLL / LHR | 38,000 ft | 451 kt | 5,327 nmNW of the field |
About Singapore Changi
- ICAO codeWSSS
- IATA codeSIN
- ServesSingapore
- RegionSingapore, Singapore
- Coordinates1.350°N, 103.994°E
Changi sits on the eastern end of Singapore island, on reclaimed coastal land. Being within a degree or so of the equator, it has no meaningful seasons in the temperate sense: day length barely changes through the year, and the weather is organised around monsoon cycles and afternoon convection instead. It is the main connecting point for Southeast Asia.
The Strait of Malacca to the west is one of the busiest shipping and flying corridors anywhere. On a wide view the traffic between the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea forms a clear line across the map.
What the codes mean
Airports carry two identifiers and they are not interchangeable.
SIN 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.
WSSS is the ICAO code: four letters, used by air traffic
control, flight planning systems and trackers like this one. Its first
two letters, WS, marks
Singapore, 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 Singapore 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:
