Flight paths
Dubai flight noise map
How many planes pass low over each part of the city on an average day, counted from 22,853 real flights around DXB and Al Maktoum on 15 days between 3 Sept 2026 and 31 Oct 2026. Move over the map for any street, or pick a community to find it.
By community
Planes a day below 3,000 ft at the centre. Pick one to find it on the map.
What is counted
Each plane is counted once per flight for every spot its track passes within 750 m of while below the chosen altitude, averaged across the sampled days. A plane at 1,000 ft overhead is far louder than one at 2,900 ft a few streets away, so read the figure as how often, not how loud.
Why a spread of days
DXB lands and takes off in whichever direction the wind allows. On any one day, one end of the runway takes the low arrivals and the other the departures, which climb fast. Sampling every fourth day over two months averages both patterns.
Where it falls short
The flight path is only about 1.5 km wide, so a community’s centre can miss it while its edge sits underneath; look at the map for a particular building. Planes on the runway itself are not counted, which understates places beside the airport such as Al Garhoud. Tracking relies on volunteer receivers, so a few low flights are missed.
Flight tracks from adsb.lol open data (ODbL). Street map © OpenStreetMap contributors, served by OpenFreeMap. Community centres are the middle of the buildings we list there; those marked approx. are placed by hand.