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Bosporus Strait

Below normal

Conditions

Transits a day
53.1
Last 7 published days
Normal
67
a day, when nothing is wrong
Share of normal
79%
Jun 9Normal 67Sep 6
Daily transits through Bosporus Strait
DateTransits
2026-06-09100
2026-06-1085
2026-06-1171
2026-06-1275
2026-06-1388
2026-06-1489
2026-06-1577
2026-06-1678
2026-06-1755
2026-06-1890
2026-06-1999
2026-06-2089
2026-06-2177
2026-06-2277
2026-06-2379
2026-06-2466
2026-06-2586
2026-06-2698
2026-06-2781
2026-06-2863
2026-06-2986
2026-06-3097
2026-07-0162
2026-07-0263
2026-07-0387
2026-07-0485
2026-07-0587
2026-07-0668
2026-07-0784
2026-07-0892
2026-07-0987
2026-07-1066
2026-07-1181
2026-07-1295
2026-07-1394
2026-07-1445
2026-07-1555
2026-07-1673
2026-07-1790
2026-07-1883
2026-07-1963
2026-07-2065
2026-07-2165
2026-07-2273
2026-07-2360
2026-07-2469
2026-07-2558
2026-07-2657
2026-07-2781
2026-07-2851
2026-07-2958
2026-07-3060
2026-07-3160
2026-08-0181
2026-08-0265
2026-08-0358
2026-08-0456
2026-08-0567
2026-08-0658
2026-08-0780
2026-08-0857
2026-08-0965
2026-08-1063
2026-08-1166
2026-08-1276
2026-08-1348
2026-08-1451
2026-08-1543
2026-08-1638
2026-08-1781
2026-08-1868
2026-08-1967
2026-08-2055
2026-08-2173
2026-08-2272
2026-08-2367
2026-08-2469
2026-08-2547
2026-08-2672
2026-08-2767
2026-08-2857
2026-08-2960
2026-08-3047
2026-08-3149
2026-09-0139
2026-09-0257
2026-09-0349
2026-09-0463
2026-09-0552
2026-09-0663

Daily transits from 2026-06-09 to 2026-09-06, running between 38 and 100 a day.

The most recent published day, Sep 6, 2026, counted 63 transits. Across the 90 days on record the count has run between 38 and 100 a day. Traffic over the last 7 days is -11% against the 7 days before.

Contracts on this passage

Everything above counts what already happened. These are the only figures on this page about what happens next, and nobody wrote them — the market did. Each is the price of a contract on this passage's published weekly transit count, and it moves while the market is open.

A price is what people here are paying to take that side. It is not a forecast and not an official figure. The count for a week is published a few days after the week ends, so these markets settle after their window closes.

Orbital view of the Bosporus Strait

The passage

Narrowest clear water
0.5km
Widest lane that fits between the shores
Shore to shore
1.3km
Across the passage, where transits are counted
Corridor
29km
Length of the lane this page describes
Counted at
41°10′N 29°05′E

These distances are worked out from the shape of the passage itself, not quoted from a reference. The clear-water figure is the widest lane that fits between the shores along the whole corridor. That comes out narrower than the headland-to-headland width an atlas prints.