Trends Explorer
Relative interest across vessels, ports, places and lighthouses — indexed 0–100 from anonymous search and map-tracking activity.
Seasonality — When Maritime Interest Peaks
When maritime tracking interest peaks — by hour of day — plus the seasonal shipping windows opening soon. Range-independent.
By hour of day
UTC · index 0–100By day of week
withheldOur launch-period sample collapses almost all weekday signal onto one or two days — an artifact of how the index is normalised, not a real weekly pattern. Publishing it would imply a rhythm the data cannot support, so the breakdown stays out until at least five of seven days carry signal, at which point it reappears here automatically. How we build these numbers.
Seasonal windows
Shipping patterns opening soon- Panama Canal · dry-season restrictions
- Northern Sea Route · ice-free window
- Mediterranean cruise · peak season
- Atlantic hurricane season
- LNG winter demand · Northern Hemisphere
- US grain export · Mississippi corridor
- Antarctic season · austral summerin 23d
- Suez / Red Sea geopolitical watch
Top countries
Share of interest- US32%
- GB28%
- ID15%
- IN8%
- FR6%
- TR4%
- EG4%
- JP3%
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JPFrequently asked questions
What does seasonality show?
The recurring rhythm of maritime interest — how attention rises and falls across the days of the week and across longer stretches of the year.
What is the weekday index?
Each weekday scored against the average day in the period, so a value above the baseline means that day reliably draws more attention than a typical one. It describes when people look, not when ships sail.
How much history is behind it?
The window is stated on the page, and a pattern is only shown when there is enough data behind it to be worth reading. The underlying signals refresh every few hours.
About this data
The Trends Explorer reflects relative interest in the vessels, ports, places and lighthouses people track on MarineRadar. Every figure is an index from 0–100 — not a raw count — re-based each refresh, so read it as relative attention and rank rather than an absolute or cross-time count. Signals are derived from anonymous search and map-tracking activity across 112,000+ vessels and refreshed every few hours. A higher number means attention is growing faster, not that traffic is larger in absolute terms. It reflects what people are watching — not AIS ship positions.
The data moves in real time — so should you
The Explorer shows relative interest. Open the app for the live positions behind it: track any of 112,000+ vessels, refreshed every 5 minutes by satellite.