Prospect Park / Southland Park, West Palm Beach
Prospect Park / Southland Park got quieter when departures moved north in October 2025
The estimated noise score averaged 56 over the 20 days before the no-fly zone over Mar-a-Lago began on Oct. 21, 2025, and 49 over the weeks after. On Monday, 163 planes crossed over the neighborhood, 12 after dark.
- 163
- flights within 1.5 nautical miles and below 5,000 feet; typical lately, 145
- 12
- between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m.; typical night, 11
- 46
- below 1,500 feet; typical lately, 53
- 53
- estimated day-night noise score (DNL-style, decibels); typical here, 52
Right now
Checking the sky over Prospect Park / Southland Park…
Bright: aircraft now, within 1.5 nautical miles and below 5,000 feet (counted); blue: nearby. Positions are estimated between updates from ADS-B (ADSBiq), a few seconds behind. Loudness is an estimate. Faint lines: every track on Monday, Sept. 28. Tap a plane for details.
Prospect Park / Southland Park 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 172 a day before, 171 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. Prospect Park / Southland Park is about 0.3 nautical miles south of 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 5:01 am and the last at 11:33 pm. The busiest hour, noon to 1 pm, brought 17, 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
69dBA est.
Beechjet 400
Business jet, climbing out of PBI, 1,291 ft up.
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12:28 pm
2
66dBA est.
Airbus A320
Airliner, climbing out of PBI, 1,624 ft up.
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2:37 pm
3
67dBA est.
Challenger 300
Business jet, climbing out of PBI, 1,626 ft up.
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6:31 pm
4
66dBA est.
Airbus A320
Airliner, climbing out of PBI, 1,706 ft up.
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6:51 pm
5
66dBA est.
Airbus A321
Airliner, climbing out of PBI, 1,556 ft up.
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10:02 pm
6
70dBA est.
Heavy jet (A30B)
Heavy jet, climbing out of PBI, 2,168 ft up, after dark.
Private aircraft are shown by type only. Airline flight numbers are public.
