Panama Canal
27 vessels/day
-18.18% day
50-mile shortcut between the Atlantic and Pacific. Drought in 2023–24 cut daily transits by half — a live example of climate binding to trade.
Aug 2 · 27.00 vessels/day · −15.6% vs the window’s open
the numbers83
| when | value | change |
|---|---|---|
| May 12 | 32.00 vessels/day | |
| May 13 | 34.00 vessels/day | +6.3% |
| May 14 | 33.00 vessels/day | −2.9% |
| May 15 | 34.00 vessels/day | +3.0% |
| May 16 | 35.00 vessels/day | +2.9% |
| May 17 | 35.00 vessels/day | 0.0% |
| May 18 | 33.00 vessels/day | −5.7% |
| May 19 | 34.00 vessels/day | +3.0% |
| May 20 | 40.00 vessels/day | +17.6% |
| May 21 | 37.00 vessels/day | −7.5% |
| May 22 | 32.00 vessels/day | −13.5% |
| May 23 | 36.00 vessels/day | +12.5% |
| May 24 | 34.00 vessels/day | −5.6% |
| May 25 | 31.00 vessels/day | −8.8% |
| May 26 | 34.00 vessels/day | +9.7% |
| May 27 | 35.00 vessels/day | +2.9% |
| May 28 | 32.00 vessels/day | −8.6% |
| May 29 | 33.00 vessels/day | +3.1% |
| May 30 | 34.00 vessels/day | +3.0% |
| May 31 | 29.00 vessels/day | −14.7% |
| Jun 1 | 32.00 vessels/day | +10.3% |
| Jun 2 | 29.00 vessels/day | −9.4% |
| Jun 3 | 32.00 vessels/day | +10.3% |
| Jun 4 | 26.00 vessels/day | −18.8% |
| Jun 5 | 33.00 vessels/day | +26.9% |
| Jun 6 | 31.00 vessels/day | −6.1% |
| Jun 7 | 32.00 vessels/day | +3.2% |
| Jun 8 | 30.00 vessels/day | −6.3% |
| Jun 9 | 25.00 vessels/day | −16.7% |
| Jun 10 | 25.00 vessels/day | 0.0% |
| Jun 11 | 25.00 vessels/day | 0.0% |
| Jun 12 | 24.00 vessels/day | −4.0% |
| Jun 13 | 23.00 vessels/day | −4.2% |
| Jun 14 | 25.00 vessels/day | +8.7% |
| Jun 15 | 24.00 vessels/day | −4.0% |
| Jun 16 | 24.00 vessels/day | 0.0% |
| Jun 17 | 23.00 vessels/day | −4.2% |
| Jun 18 | 35.00 vessels/day | +52.2% |
| Jun 19 | 32.00 vessels/day | −8.6% |
| Jun 20 | 33.00 vessels/day | +3.1% |
| Jun 21 | 36.00 vessels/day | +9.1% |
| Jun 22 | 32.00 vessels/day | −11.1% |
| Jun 23 | 34.00 vessels/day | +6.3% |
| Jun 24 | 27.00 vessels/day | −20.6% |
| Jun 25 | 33.00 vessels/day | +22.2% |
| Jun 26 | 36.00 vessels/day | +9.1% |
| Jun 27 | 33.00 vessels/day | −8.3% |
| Jun 28 | 33.00 vessels/day | 0.0% |
| Jun 29 | 29.00 vessels/day | −12.1% |
| Jun 30 | 31.00 vessels/day | +6.9% |
| Jul 1 | 36.00 vessels/day | +16.1% |
| Jul 2 | 31.00 vessels/day | −13.9% |
| Jul 3 | 34.00 vessels/day | +9.7% |
| Jul 4 | 30.00 vessels/day | −11.8% |
| Jul 5 | 36.00 vessels/day | +20.0% |
| Jul 6 | 29.00 vessels/day | −19.4% |
| Jul 7 | 27.00 vessels/day | −6.9% |
| Jul 8 | 32.00 vessels/day | +18.5% |
| Jul 9 | 32.00 vessels/day | 0.0% |
| Jul 10 | 31.00 vessels/day | −3.1% |
| Jul 11 | 29.00 vessels/day | −6.5% |
| Jul 12 | 33.00 vessels/day | +13.8% |
| Jul 13high | 83.00 vessels/day | +151.5% |
| Jul 14 | 29.00 vessels/day | −65.1% |
| Jul 15 | 28.00 vessels/day | −3.4% |
| Jul 16 | 29.00 vessels/day | +3.6% |
| Jul 17 | 32.00 vessels/day | +10.3% |
| Jul 18 | 31.00 vessels/day | −3.1% |
| Jul 19 | 34.00 vessels/day | +9.7% |
| Jul 20 | 28.00 vessels/day | −17.6% |
| Jul 21 | 30.00 vessels/day | +7.1% |
| Jul 22low | 22.00 vessels/day | −26.7% |
| Jul 23 | 30.00 vessels/day | +36.4% |
| Jul 24 | 31.00 vessels/day | +3.3% |
| Jul 25 | 30.00 vessels/day | −3.2% |
| Jul 26 | 25.00 vessels/day | −16.7% |
| Jul 27 | 30.00 vessels/day | +20.0% |
| Jul 28 | 31.00 vessels/day | +3.3% |
| Jul 29 | 30.00 vessels/day | −3.2% |
| Jul 30 | 33.00 vessels/day | +10.0% |
| Jul 31 | 29.00 vessels/day | −12.1% |
| Aug 1 | 33.00 vessels/day | +13.8% |
| Aug 2latest | 27.00 vessels/day | −18.2% |
Lately
Traffic sits at 27 vessels a day, down about 16 percent across the window, with a peak of 83 on Jul 13 and a trough of 22 on Jul 22 — a swing the last week has barely closed, running 3.9 percent under its own 90-day baseline. Nothing in the record explains the July collapse.