Palm Beach (South End), Palm Beach
Palm Beach (South End) got quieter when departures moved north in October 2025
The estimated noise score averaged 59 over the 20 days before the no-fly zone over Mar-a-Lago began on Oct. 21, 2025, and 50 over the weeks after. On Monday, 160 planes crossed over the neighborhood, 13 after dark.
- 160
- flights within 1.5 nautical miles and below 5,000 feet; typical lately, 133
- 13
- between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m.; typical night, 10
- 12
- below 1,500 feet; typical lately, 31
- 54
- estimated day-night noise score (DNL-style, decibels); typical here, 53
Palm Beach (South End) got quieter when departures moved north
Estimated daily noise score, every day in our record. The colored lines are the averages for Oct. 1-20, 2025, before the no-fly zone over Mar-a-Lago, and Oct. 22-Nov. 9, after it.
Score: a day-night average in decibels (night flights weighted +10 dB, like the FAA's DNL), estimated from aircraft type, distance and climb, not measured. Gaps: no data Nov. 10, 2025 to June 29, 2026. The large dot is Sept. 28.
Daily overflight counts changed little (about 168 a day before, 160 after). What changed was where the planes flew. Before the restriction, climbing eastbound departures crossed Mar-a-Lago's longitude 0.2 nautical miles north of it, at the median. In the first weeks after, the median sat 1.3 nautical miles north of it; by summer 2026, 0.8 nautical miles north of it. Palm Beach (South End) is at about the same latitude as Mar-a-Lago, so the stream moved away from it.
Where climbing departures cross Mar-a-Lago's longitude
Share of eastbound aircraft below 6,000 feet, by distance north or south of Mar-a-Lago.
- Oct. 1-20, 2025 (before) n=2,817
- Oct. 22-Nov. 9, 2025 n=3,088
- July-Sept. 2026 n=10,607
Each line is a distribution: the percentages for one period add to 100. Medians: before +0.2 nm, first weeks +1.3 nm, summer 2026 +0.8 nm.
The October 2025 shift, neighborhood by neighborhood
Average estimated noise score, Oct. 1-20, 2025 (before) vs. Oct. 22-Nov. 9 (after). Sorted by change.
+6.6
+6.3
+0.8
+0.5
-4.6
-6.8
-8.7
The neighborhood circles overlap, so one flight can count in several. Compare levels, don't add them up.
Monday, hour by hour
The first plane passed at 5:02 am and the last at 11:33 pm. The busiest hour, noon to 1 pm, brought 16, about one every 4 minutes. Monday was busiest in the afternoon; the sky was empty from midnight to 5 am.
The day as a clock
Each spoke is one hour; longer means more flights. Shaded: 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. Thin arcs: a typical day lately. Hover or tap an hour.
Every track below 5,000 feet
Dark lines passed within the 1.5-nm circle. Gray passed nearby.
The loudest flights
Estimated peak level at the neighborhood's center for every counted flight. The 6 loudest are numbered; all were departures.
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9:33 am
1
78dBA est.
Beechjet 400
Business jet, climbing out of PBI, 1,506 ft up.
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11:40 am
2
69dBA est.
Phenom 300
Business jet, climbing out of PBI, 2,781 ft up.
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2:37 pm
3
74dBA est.
Challenger 300 KOW416
Business jet, climbing out of PBI, 1,805 ft up.
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3:19 pm
4
69dBA est.
Business jet (LJ35)
Business jet, climbing out of PBI, 1,156 ft up.
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6:31 pm
5
68dBA est.
Airbus A320 JBU1142
Airliner, climbing out of PBI, 1,878 ft up.
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10:02 pm
6
73dBA est.
Heavy jet (A30B)
Heavy jet, climbing out of PBI, 2,373 ft up, after dark.
Private aircraft are shown by type only. Airline flight numbers are public.
