Live ferry map: where the ships are now
Positions of passenger ferries in France, United Kingdom, Spain and Denmark, with the sailing each ship is on and the age of every position.
Map key
- On time, measured (up to 5 min late)
- Late 6–15 min, measured
- Late more than 15 min, measured
- On a known sailing, punctuality not measured
- No sailing linked to this ship
- Under way: points along its course
- Stopped, or course unknown
- Last known position, older than 5 min (dashed, faded)
- Estimated from the timetable, no position received
- Selected ship
Ships on the map632 ships
Ada
Declared destination: HONO
No sailing linked
Agersoe 3
Declared destination: AGERSOE STIGS OMOE
No sailing linked
AIDAbella
No sailing linked
AIDAluna
No sailing linked
Älv-Snabben 4
Declared destination: FERRYSERVICE GOTPORT
No sailing linked
Amista
No sailing linked
Arcadia
Declared destination: Southampton
No sailing linked
Beda
Declared destination: HONO
No sailing linked
Bergensfjord
Declared destination: NOKRS
No sailing linked
Berlin
Declared destination: GED - ROS - GED
No sailing linked
Bloody Mary
No sailing linked
Borealis
No sailing linked
C. de Malaga
Declared destination: ALG-TGM-ALG
No sailing linked
Cap de Barbaria
Declared destination: IBIZA\FORMENTERA
No sailing linked
Capitaine Fracasse
Declared destination: PARIS BOULDGNE
No sailing linked
Celebrity Xcel
No sailing linked
Ciudad de Soller
No sailing linked
Color Hybrid
Declared destination: NO SAD>SE SMD /NO SA
No sailing linked
Color Magic
Declared destination: NOOSL<>DEKEL
No sailing linked
Copenhagen
No sailing linked
Costa Fascinosa
No sailing linked
Costa Pacifica
Declared destination: Marseille
No sailing linked
632 ships
What the colours and shapes mean
- On time, measured (up to 5 min late)
- Late 6–15 min, measured
- Late more than 15 min, measured
- On a known sailing, punctuality not measured
- No sailing linked to this ship
- Under way: points along its course
- Stopped, or course unknown
- Last known position, older than 5 min (dashed, faded)
- Estimated from the timetable, no position received
- Selected ship
Where the positions come from
Ship positions are AIS reports. Each ship shows the time of its own last report: nothing is moved beyond it.
A ship is linked to a timetabled sailing only when our matching sees it making that crossing. Base map: © OpenStreetMap contributors, OpenMapTiles, OpenFreeMap.
Questions about the map
Why are some ships grey?
Grey means no timetabled sailing is linked to the ship: AIS shows where it is, but we don’t know which crossing it is making, so we say nothing about its punctuality.
Is a green ship on time?
Only a measurement makes a ship green: a departure detected by AIS or reported by the operator, at most 5 minutes after the timetable. Without a measurement a ship on a known sailing is blue.
Why are some ships dashed and faded?
Their last AIS position is more than 5 minutes old. After 2 hours without a new position a ship disappears from the map.
How often does the map update?
While the page is open and visible it asks for new positions every 10 seconds, by itself; it stops while the tab is hidden. If no new position arrives for a while, the strip above the map says so.
What the map covers
The map covers 18 sea areas in France, the United Kingdom, Spain and Denmark. In the last 30 days we received AIS positions from 1,863 ships in the sea areas we cover. We know the operator of 115 of them, and 115 were linked to timetabled sailings.
387 of the 433 routes we list start from a port inside these areas.