Live flights over Vancouver International Airport (YVR)
From 23 to 24 October 2026 the FlyItalyADSB network saw 761 departures and 743 arrivals at Vancouver International Airport, 752 movements a day on average. The most frequent connections are Calgary (YYC), Toronto (YYZ) and Edmonton (CA-1291). The airline seen most often is Air Canada.
Airport data
- IATA code
- YVR
- ICAO code
- CYVR
- City
- Vancouver
- Region
- British Columbia
- Country
- Canada
- Elevation
- 4 m (14 ft)
- Coordinates
- 49.1939, -123.184
What you can track here
Every aircraft passing within roughly 80 km of Vancouver International Airport that the network receives appears on the FlyItalyADSB live map: airliners on approach and departure, business and general aviation, and — where MLAT reaches — aircraft without full ADS-B. Nothing is filtered out; how much of the area is covered depends on the community's receivers near Vancouver.
Seen by the network
23–24 October 2026
Movements per day
Show as a table
| Day | Departures | Arrivals | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 23 | 431 | 410 | 841 |
| Sat 24 | 330 | 333 | 663 |
Connections
airline flights both ways, with departure and arrival both seen
- Calgary YYC 132 flights
- Toronto YYZ 78 flights
- Edmonton CA-1291 76 flights
- Victoria YYJ 57 flights
- Seattle SEA United States 55 flights
- San Francisco SFO United States 28 flights
- Winnipeg YWG 24 flights
- Los Angeles LAX United States 24 flights
- Montréal YUL 23 flights
- Nanaimo YCD 19 flights
- Denver DEN United States 18 flights
- Portland PDX United States 15 flights
- Fort Saint John YXJ 14 flights
- Hamilton YHM 13 flights
- Las Vegas LAS United States 13 flights
- Ottawa YOW 12 flights
33 more connections
- Seoul ICN 11
- Saskatoon YXE 9
- Dallas-Fort Worth DFW 9
- Chicago ORD 9
- Hong Kong HKG 9
- Salt Lake City SLC 8
- Minneapolis MSP 7
- Frankfurt am Main FRA 6
- Houston IAH 6
- Narita NRT 6
- Montréal YHU 5
- London LHR 5
- Memphis MEM 5
- Phoenix PHX 5
- Atlanta ATL 4
- Newark EWR 4
- San Diego SAN 4
- Kamloops YKA 3
- Comox YQQ 3
- Manila MNL 3
- Sydney SYD 3
- Munich MUC 2
- Amsterdam AMS 2
- Dublin DUB 2
- Cincinnati / Covington CVG 2
- New York JFK 2
- Palm Springs PSP 2
- Louisville SDF 2
- Sacramento SMF 2
- Santa Ana SNA 2
- Auckland AKL 2
- Honolulu, Oahu HNL 2
- Tokyo HND 2
Airlines
- Air CanadaACA 241
- Air Canada JazzJZA 196
- WestJetWJA 171
- WestJet EncoreWEN 79
- Air Canada RougeROU 78
- Flair AirlinesFLE 63
- United AirlinesUAL 48
- Porter AirlinesPOE 39
- Horizon AirQXE 27
- SkyWest AirlinesSKW 27
Aircraft
- Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 DH8D 221
- Boeing 737 MAX 8 B38M 191
- Boeing 737-800 B738 134
- Airbus A220-300 BCS3 101
- Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner B789 78
- B190 57
- E75L 54
- Airbus A321 A321 44
- CRJ7 38
- E295 33
How we count: a flight is a departure here when the network first sees it low near the airport (on the ground, or climbing away from it), an arrival when it last sees it low on approach. Where receivers don't reach low altitude the numbers stay below the real traffic. Connections and airlines come only from airline flights.
This data in your app
Every aircraft within 80 km of Vancouver International Airport, as JSON, with a free key that also allows commercial use:
curl -H "X-Api-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
https://api.flyitalyadsb.com/v2/lat/49.1939/lon/-123.184/dist/80Or ask Claude, with the FlyItalyADSB connector: “which aircraft are near Vancouver right now?”
Frequently asked questions
How can I see live flights over Vancouver International Airport? +
Open the FlyItalyADSB live map centred on Vancouver: it shows every aircraft picked up via ADS-B and MLAT within about 80 km of YVR, refreshed every few seconds.
Which airlines fly from Vancouver International Airport? +
Among the flights our network saw (23–24 October 2026), the most frequent airlines were Air Canada, Air Canada Jazz, WestJet, WestJet Encore and Air Canada Rouge.
What are the main connections from Vancouver International Airport? +
The connections with the most flights seen (23–24 October 2026), both ways: Calgary (YYC, 132), Toronto (YYZ, 78), Edmonton (CA-1291, 76), Victoria (YYJ, 57) and Seattle (SEA, 55). Only flights whose departure and arrival the network both saw are counted.
Does FlyItalyADSB also track military aircraft around Vancouver? +
Yes. Thanks to multilateration (MLAT) the network reconstructs the position of aircraft without full ADS-B too, including military and state flights, whenever they are received by feeders in the area. Nothing is filtered out.
What are the codes for Vancouver International Airport? +
Vancouver International Airport has IATA code YVR and ICAO code CYVR. It lies in British Columbia, Canada, at coordinates 49.1939, -123.184.
Is the flight data free and open? +
Yes. The live map and the Free API plan cost nothing, and the data is published under the open CC BY-SA 4.0 licence; paid API plans for higher volumes help cover the infrastructure costs.
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