Middle East live status
As of 20:56 UTC on 5 November 2026: Iran's internet traffic: near usual; Strait of Hormuz: cannot be told; Iran's airspace: cannot be told; US-Iran talks: 15 reports in 48 hours, 2 corroborated or confirmed; sirens in Israel: no alerts.
Updated on 5 November 2026. Each answer shows its basis and links to its evidence.
Now
- Is Iran's internet down?Near usual122% of the same hour a week earlier (hour to 19:00 UTC); under 80% is reduced.DetailsOn the map
- Is the Strait of Hormuz open?Cannot be told28 vessels heard in 24 hours, 0 tankers or cargo ships (under 20 is too few to judge); 50 incident reports in 7 days.DetailsOn the map
- Is Iran's airspace closed?Cannot be toldUsual 2 an hour; under 10 an hour cannot be judged.DetailsOn the map
- Is Iraq's airspace closed?Cannot be toldUsual 1 an hour; under 10 an hour cannot be judged.DetailsOn the map
- What is reported about US-Iran talks?Reports, some corroborated15 reports in 48 hours naming Iran and the US, 2 corroborated or confirmed; no verdict.DetailsOn the map
- No official alert in 24 hours (Home Front Command via Tzeva Adom); last on record 19 October 2026.DetailsOn the map
Internet
Traffic to Cloudflare against the same hour a week earlier; under 80% is reduced, under 50% a severe drop. Data: Cloudflare Radar, CC BY-NC 4.0; sitmap.live computes the share. It does not say why.
| Country | Share of usual | State | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Israel | 108% | Near usual | DetailsOn the map |
| Palestine | 106% | Near usual | DetailsOn the map |
| Lebanon | 102% | Near usual | DetailsOn the map |
| Syria | 114% | Near usual | DetailsOn the map |
| Iraq | 105% | Near usual | DetailsOn the map |
| Iran | 122% | Near usual | DetailsOn the map |
| Yemen | 102% | Near usual | DetailsOn the map |
| Saudi Arabia | 108% | Near usual | DetailsOn the map |
| United Arab Emirates | 108% | Near usual | DetailsOn the map |
| Qatar | 106% | Near usual | DetailsOn the map |
| Bahrain | 137% | Near usual | DetailsOn the map |
| Kuwait | 109% | Near usual | DetailsOn the map |
| Oman | 106% | Near usual | DetailsOn the map |
| Jordan | 105% | Near usual | DetailsOn the map |
| Egypt | 113% | Near usual | DetailsOn the map |
Airspace
Aircraft entering in the last hour (ADS-B) against the usual at this hour. A closure is written only from a notice in force; where too few aircraft are heard it cannot be told.
| Country | Entering / usual | State | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lebanon | 6 / 5 | Cannot be told | DetailsOn the map |
| Israel | 20 / 20 | Near usual traffic | DetailsOn the map |
| Jordan | 39 / 30 | Near usual traffic | DetailsOn the map |
| Syria | 16 / 16 | Near usual traffic | DetailsOn the map |
| Iraq | 3 / 1 | Cannot be told | DetailsOn the map |
| Iran | 0 / 2 | Cannot be told | DetailsOn the map |
| Saudi Arabia | 82 / 65 | Near usual traffic | DetailsOn the map |
| Bahrain | 56 / 46 | Near usual traffic | DetailsOn the map |
| Kuwait | 17 / 19 | Restriction notice in force | DetailsOn the map |
| Oman | 101 / 89 | Near usual traffic | DetailsOn the map |
| United Arab Emirates | 149 / 124 | Near usual traffic | DetailsOn the map |
| Yemen | 0 / 0 | Cannot be told | DetailsOn the map |
| Egypt | 32 / 35 | Near usual traffic | DetailsOn the map |
| Cyprus | 53 / 50 | Near usual traffic | DetailsOn the map |
| Turkey | 124 / 140 | Near usual traffic | DetailsOn the map |
| Qatar | 86 / 73 | Near usual traffic | DetailsOn the map |
| Sudan | 0 / 0 | Cannot be told | DetailsOn the map |
About
Each answer is a rule applied to data the site already stores: no model writes it, and none is invented. When a reading is old or too thin the answer says so and shows the numbers instead. Titles of reports are written by AI from public posts and can be wrong. Methodology.
Exact rules
Internet
A new level counts only after 2 hours in a row, so one odd hour changes nothing.
There is no current reading when the newest hour is more than 3 hours old, when Radar has too little data for the hour, or when the same hour a week earlier was itself far below usual and cannot be a yardstick.
Cloudflare Radar's hourly figures are read about every 20 minutes and reach this page an hour or two after each hour ends; the page is rebuilt from the stored figures at most every few minutes.
Airspace
Notices (NOTAMs) are read from the SANS AIM bulletins; aircraft come from adsb.lol, adsb.fi and OpenSky. The usual is the median, and the lowest to highest, of the same hour on up to 13 earlier days.
A count is judged only where the usual is 10 an hour or more and the receivers cover the airspace. A measured fall is at most 50% of the usual, below every earlier day, unlikely by chance, and seen three checks in a row; a sample older than 30 minutes is "no current count".
Aircraft are counted every 5 minutes; the notices are read from the SANS bulletins about hourly. The page is rebuilt from the stored counts at most every few minutes.
Strait of Hormuz
The area is the box 54 to 60 E, 23.5 to 27.6 N, and the strait itself 55.5 to 57.5 E, 25.5 to 27.2 N. Tankers and cargo ships are AIS types 70 to 89.
Incidents are the map's naval incident reports in the area, as reported, with their verification state. The statements listed are official statements and diplomacy reports that name the strait and opening, closing, blockade, mines or passage.
The site keeps ship positions for 24 hours, so it has no earlier days to call a count usual or unusual.
Ship positions arrive every minute and are counted at most every few minutes when the page is rebuilt; incident reports are added as they are reported and verified.
US-Iran talks
An Iranian party is Iran, Tehran, an official named in the reports or the IRGC; an American one is the US, Washington, the president, an envoy or a department. Reports naming only one side, or using other words, are not listed.
The daily summary's lines about talks are shown when there is a summary, labelled as written by AI.
The news feeds are read every 1 to 5 minutes and reports are verified as more sources appear; the page is rebuilt from the stored reports at most every few minutes.
Sirens in Israel
An alert is counted once for each group of cities warned together for one threat; the areas named are those of the cities alerted.
The alert feed is read about every 30 seconds; the page is rebuilt from the stored alerts at most every few minutes.
Questions
What does the Middle East live status page show?
One direct, dated answer for each question people ask during the Iran and Gulf crisis: whether a country's internet is down, whether the Strait of Hormuz is open, whether an airspace is closed, what is reported about US-Iran talks and whether there are sirens in Israel. Each answer comes from a named rule on stored data, with its threshold written on its own page, and links to the live map.
Is Iran's internet down?
As of 20:56 UTC on 5 November 2026: Iran's internet traffic is at or above usual, 122% of the usual traffic for the hour to 19:00 UTC, so it is not down on the latest reading.
Is the Strait of Hormuz open?
As of 20:56 UTC on 5 November 2026: Whether the Strait of Hormuz is open cannot be told from our data: in the last 24 hours the ship feed heard 28 vessels in the Strait of Hormuz area, none inside the strait itself and 0 tankers or cargo ships, too few to say whether shipping is moving.
Are there sirens in Israel right now?
As of 20:56 UTC on 5 November 2026: No official siren alerts were recorded in Israel in the last 24 hours; the last one on record was at 16:37 UTC on 19 October 2026 (terrorist infiltration alert, Evyatar).
What happens when the data is old or thin?
The answer says so and gives the raw numbers instead. A reading that is stale or too thin to judge is never shown as normal, and a page never writes that something is closed or open unless a notice or a measurement says so.
Unofficial, built from public data and posts; verify before acting.