Thursday 20 August 2026 at Dublin Airport, pointed at your street.
On 20 August 2026, — jet departures left Dublin Airport's
North Runway. The orange threads are where they actually went.
Pick anywhere in Dublin or Meath. If departures already cross that spot you
are shown the real day and nothing is moved. If they do not, the airport
turns on its axis until its departure stream runs over it. Nothing else
changes: the same aircraft, the same hour of the morning, the same height at
the same distance from the same runway.
People are told they bought a house near an airport. This is what that
sentence would mean at your address.
Every overflight of the day, placed by the clock and drawn to its
peak level. The shaded ends of the strip are 23:00 to 07:00.
How this is worked out
The flights are the real ones: every departure recorded off runway 28R on
20 August 2026, with its aircraft type, its time off the runway and its
track. Turboprops and ten flights with no recorded type are left out, so
the count here is lower than the day's 372.
Where a place already lies under a departure route, no turn is applied and
the figures are simply that day. Turning the airport for someone who is
already under it would overstate what they live with, and they can check
the page against their own morning.
The turn is a rigid rotation of the whole airport about its published
aerodrome reference point. Because the runway turns with the traffic, every
aircraft keeps the height it really held at that distance from the runway.
Rotating cannot make an aircraft lower or louder than it was.
The noise is daa's own measurement. The level of each type at each distance
comes from a propagation law fitted to 364,831 noise-monitor events that daa
itself recorded and released under access-to-information request AIE 2611.
The figure is a single-event peak (LAmax) outdoors; indoors with a window
open is appreciably quieter.
Two simplifications worth knowing. Ground height is taken as a constant, so
places on higher ground are treated as slightly further from the aircraft
than they are. And positions arrive about every sixteen seconds, so the
closest approach is interpolated between them.
Nothing you click is sent anywhere. The place you pick is held in the part
of the web address after the # symbol, which browsers never transmit to the
server, so the link is shareable and the server still never learns it.
North Runway Technical Group. Data and method:
dublin-north-runway.com.