The question
How many ships passed through the Strait of Hormuz today?
The answer
1
1 commercial vessels transited the Strait of Hormuz on AUG 9. That is 1% of the ~73/day pre-crisis typical, per IMF PortWatch (chokepoint6 dataset). The strait has been effectively closed to commercial shipping for 167 days.
What “normal” looks like.
Peacetime throughput averaged roughly 73 commercial vessels per day, per the IMF PortWatch chokepoint6 dataset. Lloyd’s List cites a comparable figure: an average of more than 3,000 vessels transiting each month.
The pre-crisis median is computed from a fixed one-year window of PortWatch records (28 February 2025 through 27 February 2026). A 30-day rolling baseline would collapse to match the disrupted state as soon as the closure outlasted the window, meaning the reading would silently flip back toward “normal” while the strait remained closed. The pre-crisis anchor is the right reference for a sustained-crisis dashboard.
IMF PortWatch publishes weekly, on Tuesdays. Its newest record carries a roughly two-day lag, so the freshest Hormuz day is about two to nine days old depending on where you are in the publish cycle. The Hormuz layer now publishes on the same lag as the other chokepoints in the same publish; it ran about three days further behind them until 2026-08-04. The number above reflects the most recent publication; the next reading appears when PortWatch posts it. The AIS overlay on the homepage is live, but is best-effort and biased low: many vessels turn off AIS or fall out of receiver range during wartime.
What changed in the last 24 hours.
Machine-tracked · not editorialisedNo material changes in the last 24 hours. The verdict, both Hormuz Index bands, carrier postures, and the monitored thresholds all held. Crossings appear here within 15 minutes of detection.
Currently breached thresholds.
Machine-tracked · not editorialisedReadings over an alert threshold right now, regardless of when each first crossed it. For new crossings, see What changed above.
- 01
war-risk insurance at 30.0x normal
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throughput at 1% of normal (IMF PortWatch, AUG 9)
Frequently asked.
FAQHow many ships passed through the Strait of Hormuz today?
1 commercial vessels transited the Strait of Hormuz on AUG 9. That is 1% of the ~73/day pre-crisis typical, per IMF PortWatch (chokepoint6 dataset). The strait has been effectively closed to commercial shipping for 167 days.
What is the normal daily transit count for the Strait of Hormuz?
Roughly 73 commercial vessels per day in peacetime, per the IMF PortWatch chokepoint dataset. The pre-crisis median is computed from a fixed one-year window of PortWatch records (28 February 2025 through 27 February 2026), a stable reference that does not silently collapse to match a sustained disruption.
Where does the transit count come from?
Daily counts come from IMF PortWatch, an IMF / Oxford / UN Global Pulse collaboration that processes global AIS signals from roughly 90,000 ships. Methodology, refresh cadence, and known limitations are documented at straits.live/methodology.
How fresh is this reading?
Verified 8m ago (as of 15 AUG 2026 · 0025Z). IMF PortWatch publishes weekly (Tuesdays). Its newest record carries a roughly two-day lag, so the freshest Hormuz day is about two to nine days old depending on where you are in the publish cycle; the AIS overlay updates every few minutes when the feed is healthy.
Cite this page
Strait of Hormuz daily commercial transit count versus the pre-crisis baseline per IMF PortWatch (chokepoint6 dataset), as surfaced by straits.live. Source: https://straits.live/today