How many ships passed through the Strait of Hormuz today?

Peacetime throughput averaged roughly 85 commercial vessels per day, per the IMF PortWatch chokepoint6 dataset. Lloyd’s List counts a wider population: more than 3,000 vessels a month, roughly 100 a day, because it includes all merchant traffic rather than PortWatch’s commercial crossings.

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, on about a two-day lag, so the newest Hormuz day is typically about two to nine days old. The Hormuz layer used to run about three days further behind the other chokepoints in the same publish; that gap closed on 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.