GPS jamming map of the Middle East
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The map above is framed on the Middle East: the Persian Gulf and its airports, Iraq and Iran, the Levant and the Red Sea, every hexagon where aircraft reported poor satellite position accuracy during the last UTC day.
The Middle East today
From flights on 7 November 2026, 49.1% of the monitored areas in the Middle East showed interference (199 of 405), 49 of them high. The region page has the day's detail.
The Middle East region page carries the full picture, and the Persian Gulf sub-area the Gulf alone. The country pages give each its own count and its reported background with sources: Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Jordan and Syria; the Levant coast is on the Eastern Mediterranean page with Israel, Lebanon and Cyprus.
Where it concentrates
Northern Iraq and the corridor between Baghdad and the Turkish border, which has been red on most days the map has recorded. The head of the Persian Gulf and the approaches to the Gulf airports, where the share rises and falls with events in the region. The Red Sea coast and the Levant, where spoofing of airliners was first widely reported in 2023. The region page's "By altitude" table shows how much of the loss sits in the cruise layers, which is where most of it is.
Reading the Middle East picture
The Middle East is where this map's two limits matter most. The count is of aircraft at altitude, which see a transmitter from far away, so a red hexagon marks where the aircraft were and not where the source is. And the data reports accuracy, not cause, so it cannot say whether a loss was jamming or spoofing, or which constellation was affected; regulators and governments in the region and outside it have attributed specific incidents, and the region and country pages quote them with their sources. The map itself attributes nothing. The jamming versus spoofing page sets out the difference.
Over a year
The Middle East's count has moved more sharply than any other region's, rising and falling with events over days rather than months. The "Over time" chart on the region page draws its share of monitored areas affected for every saved day, with the last 30 and 90 days, the last year and all days, and the worst day on record links to that day's page, where the world's table for the day can be read and cited. The country pages give the same for Iraq, Iran and the Gulf states, each with its worst day. The days index lists every saved day with the world's share, and the API serves each region's series as JSON.
Other public maps
| Map | Data | What it draws | Updated | Past days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPSInterference.com | Open ADS-B track history from adsb.lol, every receiver feeding it | Share of aircraft per hexagon reporting NACp of 7 or less: green under 3%, yellow 3–10%, red over 10%, purple over 50% | Once a day, about 04:40 UTC, for the previous UTC day | Every saved day, each with its own page and JSON; open data (ODbL) |
| gpsjam.org | ADS-B from airplanes.live and ADS-B Exchange, by its FAQ | Share of aircraft per hexagon reporting low accuracy: green under 2%, yellow 2–10%, red over 10% | Once a day, soon after midnight UTC | Daily maps back to February 2022 |
| Flightradar24 | ADS-B from Flightradar24's own receivers, by its support page | Areas where a significant number of flights report lowered NIC | Every 6 hours | Not stated |
| GPSwise | ADS-B relayed by the OpenSky Network, by its site | Anomalies in reported positions, flagged as jamming or spoofing | Live, as it describes it | Not stated |
The same map framed on Europe is the GPS jamming map of Europe, and on the Baltic the Baltic Sea map. The live map can be embedded on any of these views.