Every ADS-B-tracked flight visualized in this print, captured over 5 days.

Toronto Pearson logged 5,574 flights across five days from August 29 to September 2, 2025, averaging 1,115 movements per day and 46.5 per hour around the clock. Arrivals and departures split almost evenly: 2,795 arrivals and 2,779 departures across the window. The busiest single day was August 29 at 1,181 total movements. Traffic ran continuously from midnight to 23:59, though the overnight hours were sparse. The 2:00 hour recorded just 20 movements across all five days combined, while activity built sharply through the morning and peaked in the 15:00 hour at 362 total flights, 191 arrivals and 171 departures. A secondary departure surge appeared at 21:00, which produced the highest departure count of any hour at 228. The top domestic pairing was Montreal at 246 total movements, followed closely by Calgary at 243 and Vancouver at 225. LaGuardia came in third overall at 230, making it the busiest single international route in the dataset. Chicago O'Hare and Halifax rounded out the top six. ENE was the dominant approach and departure direction, accounting for 502 arrivals and 655 departures. WNW ranked second in both categories. The 1,125 unique aircraft observed carried registrations from 30 countries. Canadian-registered aircraft accounted for 548 and US-registered aircraft for 389. The highest-altitude flight reached 48,950 feet, a departure tracked to Las Vegas under US registration N971JS. Cruise altitudes concentrated heavily in the 37,000 to 39,000 foot band, which held the largest share of ADS-B position reports above 10,000 feet. The longest tracked flight covered 3,511 nautical miles over 7 hours 37 minutes. Total distance across all flights came to roughly 4.46 million nautical miles.