Every ADS-B-tracked flight visualized in this print, captured over 2 days.

JFK logged 2,585 flights across July 1 and 2, 2025, averaging 53.9 movements per hour around the clock. The split between arrivals and departures was nearly even: 1,271 arrivals and 1,314 departures, with an additional 159 ground operations captured. July 2 was the busier of the two days at 1,362 total movements versus 1,223 on July 1. The single busiest hour across both days was 9 PM EDT, which produced 169 flights, 91 departures and 78 arrivals. The quietest stretch ran in the early morning, with hour 2 recording just 35 movements. Arrivals peaked in the early afternoon, with the 1 PM hour logging 99 inbound flights. Los Angeles was the top-connected airport by a wide margin, accounting for 100 total movements (54 arrivals, 46 departures). Boston and San Francisco followed at 57 and 47 movements respectively, with Orlando and Raleigh-Durham rounding out the top five. The longest individual flight tracked was an arrival from LAX covering 2,722.8 nautical miles over 433 minutes, flown by N113AN. The highest-altitude flight reached 47,200 feet on an arrival from Fort Worth Meacham, flown by N724AS. Approach traffic arrived most frequently from the ENE (222 flights), W (173), and SSW (160), while departures headed primarily toward the NE (226), W (192), and SSW (173). The 913 unique aircraft in the dataset carried tail numbers from 43 countries. US-registered aircraft accounted for 650 of those, with Great Britain second at 38, followed by Canada (14), China (13), and France (11). Cruising altitudes clustered heavily in the 35,000 to 39,000 foot band, which held the densest concentration of ADS-B position reports across the two-day window. The overall average groundspeed was 292 knots, with a peak of 677 knots recorded across all tracked legs. Combined, the 2,585 flights covered approximately 2,183,023 nautical miles.