SafeRoutes.online — Real-Time Safe Flight Route Finder

Q: How does SafeRoutes.online find safe flight routes?

SafeRoutes.online uses real-time travel advisory data from the US State Department and UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) to classify countries by safety level (1-4). It then analyzes a graph of 67,000+ airline routes across 3,400+ airports to find multi-hop flight paths that only transit through countries rated Level 1 (Safe) or Level 2 (Caution), avoiding Level 3 (Reconsider Travel) and Level 4 (Do Not Travel) countries entirely.

Q: Is SafeRoutes.online free to use?

Yes, SafeRoutes.online is completely free. It uses publicly available government travel advisory data, the GDELT conflict event database, OpenSky Network for live flight tracking, and OurAirports for airport data. No account or registration is required.

Q: What conflicts and wars does SafeRoutes.online track?

SafeRoutes.online tracks all global conflicts including the Iran-Israel/US tensions, attacks on Dubai, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia, the Russia-Ukraine war, conflicts in Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Myanmar, and all other areas flagged by the US State Department or UK FCDO. The GDELT conflict event layer shows real-time incidents from the last 72 hours worldwide.

Q: How often is the safety data updated?

Travel advisory data from the US State Department and UK FCDO is refreshed daily. Conflict event data from GDELT updates every 15 minutes. Live flight positions from OpenSky Network update every 30 seconds. The map always shows the most current information available.

Q: Can I book flights directly through SafeRoutes.online?

SafeRoutes.online provides direct booking links to Trip.com for every safe route it finds. For multi-stop routes, you can book each leg individually or search for the full origin-to-destination journey. Clicking 'Book' opens Trip.com with your airports and travel date pre-filled.

Q: Which flight routes are affected by the Iran conflict?

The Iran-Israel/US conflict has disrupted flights through Iran, Iraq, and parts of the Persian Gulf region. Common routes transiting through Dubai (DXB), Doha (DOH), and other Gulf hubs may be affected. SafeRoutes.online identifies these disrupted routes and suggests alternatives via safe transit points like Singapore, Istanbul, Frankfurt, or London.

SafeRoutes.online

Open dataset: advisory levels & affected flight corridors

Last updated 2 October 2026 · advisory data last changed 2 October 2026

Everything SafeRoutes.online shows is built from public data. These CSVs are regenerated on every site build (several times a day), are free to use, and only ask for attribution.

SafeRoutes country advisory dataset

One row per country: SafeRoutes level, US State Dept level, last-updated dates and source URLs, UK FCDO alert status.

159 rows · CSV · License: CC BY 4.0 for the compilation; US State Dept data is a US government work; UK FCDO data is under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Download saferoutes-dataset.csv

SafeRoutes affected corridors dataset

One row per corridor: great-circle km, km over Level 3–4 and Level 4 countries, countries crossed, avoidance-path km, estimated hours added.

50 rows · CSV · License: ODbL 1.0 (derived from OpenFlights route data, which is ODbL).

Download saferoutes-corridors.csv

How to cite

“SafeRoutes.online open dataset (saferoutes.online/data), 2 October 2026, compiled from US State Department and UK FCDO travel advice.” A link back to this page is appreciated.

Method

Advisories are fetched from the US State Department travel-advisory API and the gov.uk content API on every build. The SafeRoutes level is the highest level reported. Last fetch: 2 October 2026 (live).
Hubs are ranked by number of direct destinations in the OpenFlights route graph (last refreshed in this repo 21 September 2026).
Corridors: pairs of the ~150 busiest hubs in Level 1–2 countries, at least 2,500 km apart, whose great-circle line crosses at least 100 km of Level 4 countries. Corridors already discussed on this site (e.g. Mumbai–London) are evaluated first.
Country crossings are sampled every ~25 km along the great circle against country-boundary polygons.
Detours: shortest path on a 1° latitude/longitude grid where Level 4 (“Do not travel”) countries are blocked, divided by the unblocked grid path and multiplied by the great-circle distance. Hours added = extra km ÷ 850 km/h. These are estimates, not airline flight plans.
Limitations: advisory levels describe ground-travel risk, not airspace status; airlines follow NOTAMs and their own regulator's conflict-zone guidance and may fly closer to or further from a border than this model.

Also available as JSON: /api/safety.