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Overflight report · California
What's flying over San Francisco right now?
Position data from (19:20 UTC, 15 November 2026)
The lowest is UAL1986 at near ground, 9.8 miles south of San Francisco. The highest is QXE2329 at 35,774 ft. From the middle of town, look east-northeast and about 24° up for the one highest in the sky.
Daylight now: bright satellites show from dusk.
Satellites you can see
- ATLAS CENTAUR 2 · in 7 hrises WSW · peaks 28° · 7 min
- SL-3 R/B · in 7 hrises SSW · peaks 88° · 10 min
- THOR AGENA D R/B · in 8 hrises SSE · peaks 75° · 10 min
- ISS · in 8 hrises NW · peaks 12° · 3 min
The next naked-eye passes of the space stations and the brightest satellites, in the next 24 hours.
Nearest first
- ASA528 Alaska Airlines ENE · 24° up 5,574 ft 2.4 mi
- UAL616 United Airlines ESE · 3° up 2,051 ft 7.0 mi
- UAL520 United Airlines SSE · on the horizon 801 ft 8.2 mi
- UAL892 United Airlines ENE · 4° up 3,225 ft 9.4 mi
- UAL1986 United Airlines S · on the horizon Near ground 9.8 mi
- UAL499 United Airlines S · on the horizon Near ground 9.8 mi
- ASA1344 Alaska Airlines S · on the horizon Near ground 9.9 mi
- UAL1271 United Airlines S · on the horizon Near ground 10.0 mi
- ANA7 All Nippon Airways S · on the horizon Near ground 10.0 mi
- UAL2177 United Airlines S · on the horizon Near ground 10 mi
- OPS16 Aircraft S · on the horizon Near ground 10 mi
- UAL2380 United Airlines S · on the horizon Near ground 10 mi
- UAL2842 United Airlines S · on the horizon Near ground 10 mi
- OPS48 Aircraft SSE · on the horizon Near ground 11 mi
- UAL1791 United Airlines SSE · on the horizon Near ground 11 mi
- FFT4158 Frontier Airlines S · on the horizon Near ground 11 mi
- UAL1023 United Airlines SSE · on the horizon Near ground 11 mi
- OPS44 Aircraft S · on the horizon Near ground 11 mi
- VJA132 Aircraft ESE · on the horizon Near ground 11 mi
- FDX3812 FedEx Express ESE · on the horizon Near ground 12 mi
- UAL755 United Airlines SSW · 5° up 5,899 ft 13 mi
- SWA3559 Southwest Airlines NE · 3° up 3,875 ft 14 mi
- UAL837 United Airlines SSE · on the horizon 2,700 ft 14 mi
- UAL608 United Airlines SSE · 2° up 3,301 ft 14 mi
- FFT1229 Frontier Airlines ENE · 3° up 4,902 ft 16 mi
- UAL1604 United Airlines SE · 4° up 5,627 ft 17 mi
- UAL1372 United Airlines SW · 3° up 6,175 ft 19 mi
- JBU1734 JetBlue E · 5° up 10,974 ft 22 mi
- UAL1212 United Airlines SSE · 3° up 7,602 ft 23 mi
- UAL582 United Airlines E · 3° up 8,425 ft 26 mi
Who's flying over San Francisco
Counted from callsigns in the air right now. Routes are not in the live feed, so this is who, not where to.
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How to read this
Direction
The compass point is where to face from the middle of the place, and the degrees say how far to look up: 0° is the horizon, 90° is straight overhead.
Who counts
Aircraft whose transponders reach a volunteer receiver. Coverage is good over cities and thin in remote places. Military and government aircraft are listed when they broadcast; private aircraft whose owners opted out of public display (FAA LADD, PIA) are not.
What you can't see here
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Live data can be late, incomplete or wrong. Not for navigation or safety decisions.
Satellite orbits: CelesTrak · Map and place names: Natural Earth (public domain) · Flight positions: ADSBHub and the receivers that share data with it. All data sources.