Flight Report

ADS-B radar data captured 591 total flights at Munich Airport (EDDM) on 2026-01-01, comprising 273 arrivals, 298 departures, and 20 touch-and-goes. 248 unique aircraft were tracked across the day, with the first flight logged at 01:00 CET and the last at 23:59 CET. Traffic built slowly through the early morning hours, with fewer than 12 movements recorded in any single hour before 08:00. The busiest hour was 13:00, which saw 49 flights. Hours 12, 16, 17, 19, and 22 each also exceeded 38 movements. The average across all hours was 24.6 flights. Aircraft registered in Germany made up the largest share of unique aircraft at 122, followed by those with unresolved registrations (19), Great Britain (13), Turkey (11), and Italy (9). London Heathrow was the top connected airport with 29 combined movements (14 arrivals, 15 departures), ahead of Frankfurt at 20 and Amsterdam Schiphol at 18. Hamburg, Zurich, Madrid, Dusseldorf, Rome Fiumicino, Bucharest, and Paris CDG each recorded between 10 and 16 total movements. Approach and departure directions were broadly distributed across the compass, with WNW and ESE leading both categories. The longest tracked flight was a departure to Kittila International Airport (KTT) in Finland, covering 4,150 nm in approximately 181 minutes at a peak altitude of 41,025 ft, operated by tail number CS-DLH. The shortest was an 8.4-minute arrival covering 10.6 nm, flown by D-HPBE. Altitude data across 411,450 ADS-B points shows a bimodal distribution with heavy concentration in the 1,000 to 6,000 ft range during approach and departure phases, and a second concentration between 34,000 and 38,000 ft representing cruise traffic. The single highest recorded altitude was 43,025 ft, logged on an arrival from Bucharest. Average groundspeed across all tracked legs was 315 knots, with a maximum of 620.4 knots. Total distance flown by all tracked aircraft combined was 359,342 nm, with an average leg distance of 608 nm and an average leg duration of 108.3 minutes.