Live around Ayr
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Sea at Ayr beach
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Planes overhead
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Space station
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Alerts for Ayr
Weather warnings, flood alerts, trunk road incidents and roadworks, and council road notices, as the Met Office, SEPA, Traffic Scotland and the Ayrshire Roads Alliance issue them.
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For trains, ferries and buses, each operator posts its own disruption notices: National Rail at Ayr · CalMac service status · Traveline Scotland travel updates · Traffic Scotland
Getting around
Live departures open on each operator's own page. Tickets are bought from the operators.
Trains
ScotRail runs from Ayr to Glasgow Central, Kilmarnock, Girvan and Stranraer. Newton-on-Ayr and Prestwick Airport stations are on the Glasgow line.
Live departures Ayr · Newton-on-Ayr · Prestwick Airport
Tickets At the ticket office or machines at Ayr station, or online at ScotRail.
Buses
Stagecoach runs the local buses in Ayr and Prestwick, from Ayr Bus Station on Sandgate. Express coaches run to Glasgow Buchanan Street.
Live departures Traveline Scotland · Stagecoach live bus times
Tickets In the free Stagecoach Bus app, or tap a contactless card on the bus.
Ferries to Arran
CalMac sails to Brodick from Troon (about 80 minutes) and from Ardrossan (about 55 minutes). Lochranza links to Claonaig on Kintyre. The routes are on the live map, and ferries show on it when their signal is heard.
Live CalMac service status · Timetables
Tickets Book online with CalMac.
Glasgow Prestwick Airport
About 2 miles north of Ayr, with its own railway station and a covered walkway to the terminal.
Live Arrivals and departures · Trains from the airport
Tickets Flights from the airlines. Trains to the airport are ScotRail trains, with tickets from Ayr station or ScotRail.
Glasgow Airport
Take the train from Ayr to Paisley Gilmour Street, then McGill's 757 bus to the terminal. The First Glasgow Airport Express 500 also runs from Glasgow Central and Queen Street stations.
Live Trains from Ayr · McGill's 757 · Glasgow Airport's travel page
Tickets A ScotRail ticket to Paisley Gilmour Street, then pay on the bus. Plan the whole trip with Traveline Scotland.
The next 12 hours
Temperature, chance of rain and wind at Ayr.
Planes near Ayr
Nearest first, as of …. The list and the map refresh every few minutes.
Ships in the Firth
Ships heard in the last hour by volunteer receivers, as of …. Few receivers cover the coast near Ayr, so many boats there do not show.
The space station over Ayr
The International Space Station looks like a bright star moving steadily across the sky, with no blinking lights. These are the times to look up.
Where this comes from
Weather and sea from Open-Meteo under CC BY 4.0. Aircraft positions from adsb.lol contributors under the Open Database Licence. Ships from AISStream. The space station's orbit from CelesTrak or ARISS, worked out with satellite.js. 3D hills from Mapterhorn, built from Scottish Government LiDAR (Open Government Licence) and Copernicus GLO-30. Ferry routes from OpenStreetMap. Trunk road incidents and roadworks from Traffic Scotland, Transport Scotland's open data under the Open Government Licence. Weather warnings from the Met Office, flood alerts from SEPA, road notices from the Ayrshire Roads Alliance. Tide times are a model estimate and not for navigation or safety.