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Aircraft aloft
Planes over Britain through the day — the red line tracks the replay cursor.
Altitude through the day
Aircraft by altitude band — morning climb-outs swell the low band, midday cruise the high.
Nations overhead
—Concurrent aircraft by country of registration — the clock shows the moment each snapshot is from, marching through 30-minute buckets.
Speed × altitude
Every plane at the cursor — climbers, cruisers and the grounded cluster. Moves as you scrub.
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Train insights
24-hour window
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The Great Delay Clock
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late-minutes racked up
Each train's worst delay of the day, summed — it climbs as playback advances; scrub back to rewind it.
Punctuality pulse
Trains running, split by lateness — watch the red band swell at the peaks. The white line tracks the replay cursor. Tap a band in the legend to toggle it.
Operator league
—Operators by trains running, each bar coloured by how late it's running right now — marching through 30-minute buckets. Drag the bar to scrub.
Punctuality clock
Average lateness by hour of day — rush hours flare red. The current hour glows as you scrub.
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About
A Day in Britain is a live, replayable map of what's moving over Britain. Everything is collected continuously and stored, so you can scrub back through time — toggle layers on together and press play.
Data layers
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Aircraft
Live aircraft positions over Britain and its surrounding airspace, from the OpenSky Network. Icons point along each aircraft’s heading and are coloured by altitude.
OpenSky Network ↗
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Trains
Live GB passenger trains from the Network Rail movement feed, plotted at their last-reported station (open NaPTAN coordinates) and coloured by lateness. Filter by operator and destination; click a train for its route and delay. Coverage builds up through the day as trains start their journeys, and positions are station-level (trains glide station to station rather than following the exact track).
Network Rail Open Data ↗
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Ships
UK passenger ferries and vessels (AIS ship type 60–69) around the coast and crossing to/from the Continent, from live AIS via AISStream. Icons point along course. Coverage is partial — a vessel only shows while it’s transmitting AIS during each short capture window, so ships come and go between snapshots.
AISStream (AIS) ↗
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Tides
Near-real-time sea level at ~200 English coastal tide gauges. Each dot pulses outward as the tide rises and inward as it falls — scrub and watch the tide travel round the coast while the coastline breathes with it.
Environment Agency ↗
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Weather
A grid of surface weather across Britain from Open-Meteo — switch the heatmap between temperature, wind and precipitation, with optional wind-direction arrows.
Open-Meteo ↗
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Grid
Britain’s electricity: national demand (GW) with a replayable curve, regions shaded by carbon intensity (how clean the power is), and the live generation mix.
Carbon Intensity API + Elexon ↗
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BBC News
The BBC front-page headlines, captured every half hour — scrub back through the timeline to see what Britain was reading at any moment.
BBC News ↗How replay works
All visible layers share one timeline. Playing advances a single clock and each layer shows its snapshot at that moment — aircraft and ships glide between fixes, weather steps hourly. Hit LIVE to jump back to now.
Analytics & cookies
We use Google Analytics to understand how the map is used (which layers, replay, charts) — aggregate only, no personal data. Analytics cookies are set only if you accept the cookie banner; decline and none are stored.
Basemap © OpenStreetMap
& CARTO.
Data from OpenSky Network, Open-Meteo, AISStream, Carbon Intensity API, BBC News & the Environment Agency.