Where every number comes from

Nothing on this site is estimated by a model. Every figure traces back to a named source, with its refresh interval printed next to it.

Source

What it powers

Refresh

Method

AeroDataBox

Licensed flight data

Live departures and arrivals, terminals, gates, delays and cancellations

5 min

Licensed live feed; flight pages are never indexed by search engines

METAR observations

NOAA / NWS

Temperature, sky cover and wind at the airfield

Latest observation, typically 15–30 min

Public METAR feed; anything older than its window is hidden, not shown as current

Locationforecast

MET Norway

The hourly weather strip

1 hour

Public API under CC BY 4.0 — that is why MET Norway is credited next to the strip

NAS status

FAA

Airport operational status — United States only

5 min

Public national airspace status feed

OurAirports

Open data

Airport codes, coordinates, runways and elevation for 3,269 airports

Regenerated from dataset snapshots

Open dataset, processed and committed to our repository

OpenStreetMap

Terminal outlines on the map, car parks, the station, and the unverified hotel list

Dated extract, shown on each page that uses it

Overpass extract committed to the repository; names of terminals are OVERRIDDEN by our own verification where OSM lags reality

National aviation authorities

UK CAA and equivalents

Annual passenger figures in “at a glance”

Yearly, labelled with its year

Downloaded from the authority’s own published data tables

Wikimedia Commons / Wikidata

Free media

The airport photograph

Static, with download date

Hosted on our servers with the author and licence credited under the photo

Editorial verification

Airport.blog

Terminals, parking, hotels with access details, lounges, transport, FAQs

Dated per block — the verification date is printed on the page

Checked by a person against the airport’s and operators’ official pages, with visible source links

One fact, several sources

A claim that matters is cross-checked against multiple independent sources before it publishes. When sources disagree, we publish the crossed result and say so — not the first version we found.

Staleness cutoff

Any figure older than its refresh window is hidden rather than shown as current. A page would rather lose its weather card than label an old observation as “now”.

No data, no page

A section URL exists only when there is verified content behind it. Below the quality threshold, the page is simply not generated — for any of the 3,269 airports.

Flight data is indicative and not for operational use. Always confirm gate, time and terminal with your airline before you travel.

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