Most turbulent flights today

How this ranking is built

Each route’s turbulence forecast is computed from the NOAA Aviation Weather Center’s WAFS model — the same aviation- grade dataset airline operations centres use for flight planning. We sample turbulence severity along the great-circle route at cruise altitude, take the peak (the worst patch you’d expect to fly through), and rank.

Conditions change hour-to-hour. This page rebuilds every four hours; if you have a specific flight booked, view the live forecast for your exact departure on the per-route pages.

Why the same routes recur in the rankings

The transatlantic North Atlantic Track and transpacific corridors sit beneath the polar jet stream — clear-air turbulence (CAT) is structural to those flight paths, especially in winter when jet stream speeds peak. The Kangaroo Route across the Southern Ocean and the Middle East to Asia corridors over the Himalayas also show recurring patterns of mountain-wave and shear turbulence.