GPS jamming in the Americas today

Last updated: 5 November 2026, 10:18 UTC

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Background

Most published reports of GPS interference in the Americas come from the Caribbean and northern South America. In January 2026 ICAO's Pan American regional aviation safety group said airlines and air navigation providers had reported a growing number of jamming and spoofing events in the Maiquetía, Piarco, San Juan, Curaçao, Georgetown and Paramaribo flight information regions, and noted FAA notices covering overwater parts of Mexico, Central America, Panama, Bogotá and Guayaquil. It said no incidents or accidents had been attributed to the events (ICAO RASG-PA, January 2026).

A New York Times analysis of Stanford data found that at least one in five Caribbean flights had had GPS problems since early September 2025, and reported that US warships deployed to the region and Venezuela's armed forces had both jammed GPS (The New York Times, December 2025). In North America the interference best documented in public notices comes from scheduled military tests, which the FAA announces in flight advisories, such as those for White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico (FAA, March 2025).

Most affected areas

Place	Share affected	Aircraft affected
Los Angeles	55.2%	958 of 1,734
Western United States	53.8%	7 of 13
Anchorage	47.3%	53 of 112
Alaska	47.1%	48 of 102
Boston	42.2%	338 of 800

The Americas: with few aircraft, one report can give a hexagon a high share; see the limitations.

By altitude

The Americas: Mostly low altitude: points to local, low-power jammers. How this is read.

Aircraft observations by barometric altitude, latest update
Altitude	Aircraft	Share affected
Below 5,000 ft	143,370	10.4%
5,000 to 15,000 ft	204,192	2.0%
15,000 to 30,000 ft	297,101	0.3%
Above 30,000 ft	788,921	0.1%

The Americas: an aircraft is counted in each layer it crosses, so the rows do not add up.

Nearby

Pages near the Americas: United States, Canada, Mexico, Cuba, Venezuela.

Regions. Methodology.

By country: United States, Canada, Mexico, Cuba, Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina and Chile.

The Americas. Low reported accuracy points to interference but does not prove it, and the map cannot locate a transmitter or say who is responsible. How the map is made.