Strait of Gibraltar
125 vessels/day
-8.09% day
8 miles between Morocco and Spain — the only Atlantic–Mediterranean link. A surveillance chokepoint for Russian submarines and sanctioned oil.
Aug 2 · 125.0 vessels/day · −7.4% vs the window’s open
the numbers83
| when | value | change |
|---|---|---|
| May 12 | 135.0 vessels/day | |
| May 13 | 112.0 vessels/day | −17.0% |
| May 14 | 133.0 vessels/day | +18.8% |
| May 15 | 117.0 vessels/day | −12.0% |
| May 16 | 157.0 vessels/day | +34.2% |
| May 17 | 126.0 vessels/day | −19.7% |
| May 18 | 135.0 vessels/day | +7.1% |
| May 19 | 160.0 vessels/day | +18.5% |
| May 20 | 147.0 vessels/day | −8.1% |
| May 21 | 120.0 vessels/day | −18.4% |
| May 22 | 143.0 vessels/day | +19.2% |
| May 23 | 134.0 vessels/day | −6.3% |
| May 24 | 134.0 vessels/day | 0.0% |
| May 25 | 143.0 vessels/day | +6.7% |
| May 26 | 144.0 vessels/day | +0.7% |
| May 27 | 125.0 vessels/day | −13.2% |
| May 28 | 146.0 vessels/day | +16.8% |
| May 29 | 133.0 vessels/day | −8.9% |
| May 30 | 138.0 vessels/day | +3.8% |
| May 31 | 151.0 vessels/day | +9.4% |
| Jun 1 | 122.0 vessels/day | −19.2% |
| Jun 2 | 136.0 vessels/day | +11.5% |
| Jun 3low | 111.0 vessels/day | −18.4% |
| Jun 4 | 134.0 vessels/day | +20.7% |
| Jun 5 | 112.0 vessels/day | −16.4% |
| Jun 6 | 142.0 vessels/day | +26.8% |
| Jun 7 | 120.0 vessels/day | −15.5% |
| Jun 8 | 141.0 vessels/day | +17.5% |
| Jun 9 | 124.0 vessels/day | −12.1% |
| Jun 10 | 131.0 vessels/day | +5.6% |
| Jun 11 | 142.0 vessels/day | +8.4% |
| Jun 12 | 122.0 vessels/day | −14.1% |
| Jun 13high | 163.0 vessels/day | +33.6% |
| Jun 14 | 114.0 vessels/day | −30.1% |
| Jun 15 | 141.0 vessels/day | +23.7% |
| Jun 16 | 137.0 vessels/day | −2.8% |
| Jun 17 | 123.0 vessels/day | −10.2% |
| Jun 18 | 140.0 vessels/day | +13.8% |
| Jun 19 | 132.0 vessels/day | −5.7% |
| Jun 20 | 163.0 vessels/day | +23.5% |
| Jun 21 | 124.0 vessels/day | −23.9% |
| Jun 22 | 148.0 vessels/day | +19.4% |
| Jun 23 | 133.0 vessels/day | −10.1% |
| Jun 24 | 125.0 vessels/day | −6.0% |
| Jun 25 | 116.0 vessels/day | −7.2% |
| Jun 26 | 136.0 vessels/day | +17.2% |
| Jun 27 | 140.0 vessels/day | +2.9% |
| Jun 28 | 129.0 vessels/day | −7.9% |
| Jun 29 | 140.0 vessels/day | +8.5% |
| Jun 30 | 133.0 vessels/day | −5.0% |
| Jul 1 | 134.0 vessels/day | +0.8% |
| Jul 2 | 127.0 vessels/day | −5.2% |
| Jul 3 | 128.0 vessels/day | +0.8% |
| Jul 4 | 132.0 vessels/day | +3.1% |
| Jul 5 | 131.0 vessels/day | −0.8% |
| Jul 6 | 126.0 vessels/day | −3.8% |
| Jul 7 | 132.0 vessels/day | +4.8% |
| Jul 8 | 129.0 vessels/day | −2.3% |
| Jul 9 | 120.0 vessels/day | −7.0% |
| Jul 10 | 134.0 vessels/day | +11.7% |
| Jul 11 | 111.0 vessels/day | −17.2% |
| Jul 12 | 144.0 vessels/day | +29.7% |
| Jul 13 | 133.0 vessels/day | −7.6% |
| Jul 14 | 126.0 vessels/day | −5.3% |
| Jul 15 | 121.0 vessels/day | −4.0% |
| Jul 16 | 125.0 vessels/day | +3.3% |
| Jul 17 | 128.0 vessels/day | +2.4% |
| Jul 18 | 120.0 vessels/day | −6.3% |
| Jul 19 | 119.0 vessels/day | −0.8% |
| Jul 20 | 129.0 vessels/day | +8.4% |
| Jul 21 | 135.0 vessels/day | +4.7% |
| Jul 22 | 135.0 vessels/day | 0.0% |
| Jul 23 | 129.0 vessels/day | −4.4% |
| Jul 24 | 116.0 vessels/day | −10.1% |
| Jul 25 | 136.0 vessels/day | +17.2% |
| Jul 26 | 131.0 vessels/day | −3.7% |
| Jul 27 | 136.0 vessels/day | +3.8% |
| Jul 28 | 134.0 vessels/day | −1.5% |
| Jul 29 | 118.0 vessels/day | −11.9% |
| Jul 30 | 122.0 vessels/day | +3.4% |
| Jul 31 | 126.0 vessels/day | +3.3% |
| Aug 1 | 136.0 vessels/day | +7.9% |
| Aug 2latest | 125.0 vessels/day | −8.1% |
Lately
Traffic has drifted rather than broken: 125 vessels a day, down from a mid-June high of 163 and within a few percent of the strait's own 90-day baseline. Seas are calm and no closure or rerouting is on the record, so the decline reads as ordinary variation.