Every ADS-B-tracked flight visualized in this print, captured over 3 days.

DEN handled 5,524 flights across three days from February 28 to March 2, 2025, averaging about 1,841 movements per day and 76.7 flights per hour around the clock. Arrivals edged out departures, 2,788 to 2,736, with 78 ground operations also captured. February 28 was the busiest single day at 1,923 movements. The 4 p.m. hour (MST) was the peak of the window, logging 409 total flights with 259 arrivals and 150 departures. Early morning hours between 2 and 5 a.m. were the quietest, dipping as low as 7 flights in a single hour, while the airport never went fully dark across any of the three days. Phoenix led all routes with 165 combined movements, followed by Salt Lake City at 137 and Las Vegas at 125. Los Angeles, Dallas-Fort Worth, Chicago O'Hare, Minneapolis, Seattle, San Francisco, and Colorado Springs rounded out the top ten. Approach and departure traffic spread across all 16 compass directions, with WSW and ENE each accounting for roughly 370 movements in both directions, reflecting the airport's east-west runway orientation. The 1,396 unique aircraft observed were predominantly U.S.-registered (1,349), with smaller numbers from Canada (15), Mexico (11), Germany (4), and the United Kingdom (4). Altitude data across more than 3.3 million ADS-B position points shows a strong concentration between 34,000 and 37,000 feet, the most populated band in the dataset. The average tracked altitude was 22,189 feet, pulled down by the volume of climb and descent traffic near the airport. The longest flight in the capture was an arrival from San Juan (SJU) spanning 2,482.5 nautical miles and roughly six and a half hours. The highest-altitude flight, a departure bound for Monterrey (NTR), reached 46,625 feet.