Panama Canal
27 vessels/day
-3.57% 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.
Sep 20 · 27.00 vessels/day · −25.0% vs the window’s open
the numbers87
| when | value | change |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 26 | 36.00 vessels/day | |
| Jun 27 | 33.00 vessels/day | −8.3% |
| Jun 28 | 33.00 vessels/day | 0.0% |
| Jun 29 | 30.00 vessels/day | −9.1% |
| Jun 30 | 32.00 vessels/day | +6.7% |
| Jul 1 | 36.00 vessels/day | +12.5% |
| 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 | 37.00 vessels/day | +23.3% |
| Jul 6 | 29.00 vessels/day | −21.6% |
| 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 | 34.00 vessels/day | +17.2% |
| Jul 13high | 83.00 vessels/day | +144.1% |
| 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 | 23.00 vessels/day | −23.3% |
| Jul 23 | 30.00 vessels/day | +30.4% |
| Jul 24 | 31.00 vessels/day | +3.3% |
| Jul 25 | 30.00 vessels/day | −3.2% |
| Jul 26 | 24.00 vessels/day | −20.0% |
| Jul 27 | 31.00 vessels/day | +29.2% |
| Jul 28 | 31.00 vessels/day | 0.0% |
| 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 2 | 27.00 vessels/day | −18.2% |
| Aug 3 | 29.00 vessels/day | +7.4% |
| Aug 4 | 31.00 vessels/day | +6.9% |
| Aug 5 | 31.00 vessels/day | 0.0% |
| Aug 6 | 29.00 vessels/day | −6.5% |
| Aug 7 | 33.00 vessels/day | +13.8% |
| Aug 8 | 28.00 vessels/day | −15.2% |
| Aug 9 | 29.00 vessels/day | +3.6% |
| Aug 10 | 26.00 vessels/day | −10.3% |
| Aug 11 | 30.00 vessels/day | +15.4% |
| Aug 12 | 29.00 vessels/day | −3.3% |
| Aug 13 | 28.00 vessels/day | −3.4% |
| Aug 14 | 31.00 vessels/day | +10.7% |
| Aug 15 | 31.00 vessels/day | 0.0% |
| Aug 16 | 33.00 vessels/day | +6.5% |
| Aug 17 | 23.00 vessels/day | −30.3% |
| Aug 18 | 27.00 vessels/day | +17.4% |
| Aug 19 | 31.00 vessels/day | +14.8% |
| Aug 20 | 27.00 vessels/day | −12.9% |
| Aug 21 | 26.00 vessels/day | −3.7% |
| Aug 22 | 25.00 vessels/day | −3.8% |
| Aug 23 | 28.00 vessels/day | +12.0% |
| Aug 24 | 30.00 vessels/day | +7.1% |
| Aug 25 | 25.00 vessels/day | −16.7% |
| Aug 26 | 28.00 vessels/day | +12.0% |
| Aug 27 | 31.00 vessels/day | +10.7% |
| Aug 28 | 29.00 vessels/day | −6.5% |
| Aug 29 | 30.00 vessels/day | +3.4% |
| Aug 30 | 31.00 vessels/day | +3.3% |
| Aug 31 | 29.00 vessels/day | −6.5% |
| Sep 1 | 31.00 vessels/day | +6.9% |
| Sep 2 | 30.00 vessels/day | −3.2% |
| Sep 3 | 30.00 vessels/day | 0.0% |
| Sep 4 | 30.00 vessels/day | 0.0% |
| Sep 5 | 34.00 vessels/day | +13.3% |
| Sep 6 | 26.00 vessels/day | −23.5% |
| Sep 7 | 27.00 vessels/day | +3.8% |
| Sep 8 | 30.00 vessels/day | +11.1% |
| Sep 9 | 31.00 vessels/day | +3.3% |
| Sep 10 | 34.00 vessels/day | +9.7% |
| Sep 11 | 28.00 vessels/day | −17.6% |
| Sep 12 | 29.00 vessels/day | +3.6% |
| Sep 13 | 29.00 vessels/day | 0.0% |
| Sep 14 | 23.00 vessels/day | −20.7% |
| Sep 15 | 25.00 vessels/day | +8.7% |
| Sep 16 | 25.00 vessels/day | 0.0% |
| Sep 17 | 28.00 vessels/day | +12.0% |
| Sep 18 | 27.00 vessels/day | −3.6% |
| Sep 19 | 28.00 vessels/day | +3.7% |
| Sep 20latest | 27.00 vessels/day | −3.6% |
Lately
Panama City cut the number of daily transits and began rationing water as El Niño strengthened. The Pacific anomaly reached +3.01°C on 15 September, and a drier rainy season leaves less water to refill the lakes that each ship's passage through the locks draws down.