BLACKOUT MAP

Internet outage history

Afghanistan

Operational 57/57 hosts up since Oct 16, 2026 10:00 UTC

Every disruption Blackout Map has recorded in Afghanistan since monitoring began on October 16, 2026, with reported government shutdowns and submarine cable incidents.

Live status of Afghanistan RSS feed

Badakhshan — Operational · 2/2 hosts upNangarhar — Operational · 2/2 hosts upLogar — Operational · 2/2 hosts upKunduz — Operational · 2/2 hosts upKhost — Operational · 2/2 hosts upPaktia — Operational · 2/2 hosts upHelmand — Operational · 2/2 hosts upGhowr — Operational · 2/2 hosts upGhazni — Operational · 3/3 hosts upJowzjan — Operational · 3/3 hosts upKandahar — Operational · 3/3 hosts upNimroz — Operational · 3/3 hosts upBalkh — Operational · 3/3 hosts upBaghlan — Operational · 3/3 hosts upHerat — Operational · 5/5 hosts upKabul — Operational · 13/13 hosts up
Regions right now Operational Degraded Partial outage Blackout Each dot is a state or province we measure separately, coloured by its status now; bigger dots have more hosts. The country is shaded in its overall status.
0incidents recorded
0total disruption
—longest incident
1regional outages
68outages measured since 2022
1reported shutdowns since 2019

Overview

Last 90 days

Worst status per day, last 90 days
Aug 1, 2026 Operational Degraded Partial outage Blackout Not monitored yet Today

Daily reachability

last 30 days
Oct 16Oct 230%50%100%
Hosts uplowest hour

Our probes · hosts reachable

last 72 hours
Oct 27Oct 28Oct 290%50%100%

IODA · routes and active probing, % of normal

last 72 hours
Oct 27Oct 28Oct 290%50%100%
BGP routesActive probingIODA (Georgia Tech)

Latency from our server (Germany)

last 72 hours
Oct 27Oct 28Oct 290 ms75 ms150 ms
Latency25–75%

The same measurements as the live panel, per 30 minutes. Times in UTC.

Incidents

All incidents

our probes and IODA

No disruptions recorded in Afghanistan since monitoring started on October 16, 2026.

Regional outages · our probes

Outages in one state or province while the rest of Afghanistan stayed online, measured by our own probes. Hosts are placed by IP geolocation (DB-IP), which is sometimes off.

RegionStarted (UTC)DurationWorst level
HeratOct 29, 2026 02:2030 min Partial outage

Attacks and context

Context only — they don't change the status above.

DDoS attacks aimed at Afghanistan · 7 days

Oct 23Oct 24Oct 25Oct 26Oct 27Oct 28Oct 290%50%100%
Network DDoSWeb attacksCloudflare Radar

Per hour; each line is relative to its own busiest hour of the week (100%). Context only — attacks never change a country's status.

Web attacks from
AFGHANTELECOM GOVERNMENT COMMUNICATION NETWORK 38% · ROSHAN 15% · Etisalat Afghan 9%

Routing incidents · 7 days · Cloudflare Radar

2 possible hijacks of networks in Afghanistan, 0+ route leaks involving it.

  • Oct 29 11:13 AS138322 (AF) · 1 address blocks · confidence 10/10
  • Oct 28 10:04 AS138322 (AF) · 1 address blocks · confidence 10/10

Long-term history

Before our monitoring: IODA archive

68 incidents · 6 blackouts · 6 partial outages

Outages in Afghanistan detected by IODA (Georgia Tech) between January 2022 and the start of our own monitoring: drops in the country's internet routes (BGP) or in its reachability from IODA's active probing, compared with the day before. Each is checked against IODA's signal; small dips are left out.

Started (UTC)DurationWorst levelEvidence
Sep 27, 2026 05:2555 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 94% of normal
Sep 26, 2026 04:1520 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 94% of normal
Jun 20, 2026 12:202 hours BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 2% of normal
May 3, 2026 20:5050 min BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 38% of normal
Apr 6, 2026 19:1050 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 78% of normal
Nov 29, 2025 13:0040 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 68% of normal
Sep 29, 2025 11:302 days BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 4% of normal
Aug 10, 2025 07:3030 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 83% of normal
Jul 29, 2025 06:151 hour DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 95% of normal
Jul 24, 2025 08:5020 min BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 9% of normal
Jun 19, 2025 11:151 hour DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 91% of normal
May 27, 2025 17:002 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 93% of normal
Show all 68
Started (UTC)DurationWorst levelEvidence
May 17, 2025 04:5010 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 91% of normal
Apr 30, 2025 12:353 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 94% of normal
Apr 24, 2025 06:5511 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 89% of normal
Apr 21, 2025 19:101 hour Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 69% of normal
Mar 29, 2025 10:103 hours BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 33% of normal
Mar 25, 2025 22:003 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes + active probing, lowest 83% of normal
Mar 25, 2025 20:101 hour DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 81% of normal
Mar 25, 2025 17:5030 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 89% of normal
Mar 23, 2025 19:4530 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 93% of normal
Mar 16, 2025 09:3550 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 86% of normal
Mar 5, 2025 22:002 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 93% of normal
Feb 10, 2025 00:5030 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 94% of normal
Dec 13, 2024 12:2540 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 84% of normal
Dec 3, 2024 07:202 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 94% of normal
Nov 1, 2024 07:052 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 87% of normal
Sep 10, 2024 11:301 hour DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 87% of normal
Aug 6, 2024 23:351 hour DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 94% of normal
Jul 15, 2024 21:202 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 94% of normal
Jul 3, 2024 16:0010 days DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 94% of normal
Jun 13, 2024 01:4030 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 71% of normal
Nov 19, 2023 12:403 hours BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 19% of normal
Oct 31, 2023 06:252 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 95% of normal
Oct 17, 2023 21:3040 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 95% of normal
Sep 19, 2023 21:004 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 95% of normal
Jul 25, 2023 04:351 hour DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 92% of normal
Jul 8, 2023 00:2039 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 93% of normal
Jun 15, 2023 08:351 hour DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 89% of normal
Jun 4, 2023 05:204 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing + routes, lowest 84% of normal
Mar 30, 2023 01:2545 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 95% of normal
Dec 16, 2022 20:1544 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 95% of normal
Oct 28, 2022 17:254 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 94% of normal
Oct 20, 2022 15:4031 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 83% of normal
Oct 19, 2022 14:302 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 85% of normal
Sep 4, 2022 21:3530 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 92% of normal
Aug 23, 2022 03:4520 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 86% of normal
Aug 23, 2022 00:3555 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 86% of normal
Aug 22, 2022 10:0010 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 86% of normal
Aug 19, 2022 02:206 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 85% of normal
Aug 18, 2022 22:3525 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 86% of normal
Aug 15, 2022 06:5525 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 86% of normal
Aug 10, 2022 16:154 days DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 82% of normal
Jul 28, 2022 22:101 hour DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 87% of normal
Jul 25, 2022 23:255 hours Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): routes + active probing, lowest 68% of normal
Jul 22, 2022 03:2530 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 86% of normal
Jul 21, 2022 23:303 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 85% of normal
Jul 10, 2022 12:102 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 85% of normal
Jul 2, 2022 05:1040 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 51% of normal
Jun 11, 2022 11:5550 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 86% of normal
Jun 8, 2022 00:054 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 86% of normal
Jun 7, 2022 12:451 hour DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 86% of normal
Jun 4, 2022 03:304 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 84% of normal
May 20, 2022 11:0520 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 89% of normal
Apr 4, 2022 08:2040 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 84% of normal
Mar 30, 2022 07:555 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 86% of normal
Mar 22, 2022 08:4550 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 86% of normal
Jan 27, 2022 08:253 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 86% of normal

Government shutdowns and blocks

since 2019

The Internet Society Pulse tracker records 1 government-ordered shutdown or block in Afghanistan since 2019.

  • National internet shutdown, since Sep 22, 2025 — 10 days

Shutdown data provided by Internet Society. Pulse

Submarine cable incidents

No submarine cable incidents recorded for Afghanistan.

Cable incidents: GeoCables (CC BY 4.0). Context only — they never change a country's status.