Planes overhead in B1
Birmingham, West Midlands. All 319 of its postcodes measured, January to August 2026.
From Birmingham
Planes land and take off into the wind, so the weather decides which way Birmingham flies, and that decides how many pass over B1. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
- On a day it flies west (38% of days): up to 10 a day; of its 319 postcodes, 9 at 10 to 99, 310 under 10
- On a day it flies both ways (24% of days): up to 15 a day; of its 319 postcodes, 253 at 10 to 99, 66 under 10
- On a day it flies east (38% of days): up to 17 a day; of its 319 postcodes, 312 at 10 to 99, 7 under 10
The table counts the postcodes of each sector by how many planes pass over them a day: 100 or more, 10 to 99, or under 10.
| Sector | Flying west38% of days | Both ways24% of days | Flying east38% of days |
|---|---|---|---|
| B1 1125 postcodes | 125 under 10 | 66 at 10 to 9959 under 10 | 123 at 10 to 992 under 10 |
| B1 2102 postcodes | 2 at 10 to 99100 under 10 | 96 at 10 to 996 under 10 | 100 at 10 to 992 under 10 |
| B1 392 postcodes | 7 at 10 to 9985 under 10 | 91 at 10 to 991 under 10 | 89 at 10 to 993 under 10 |
1 of its postcodes have a position ONS estimates, so their figures may be for a spot a few hundred metres away.
What counts as overhead
Overhead means more than halfway up the sky (48.5 degrees or more) and below 7,000 ft, the CAA's definition of an overflight (CAP 1498). A day counts as one way when 80% of its flights used that way.
Near B1
The councils
Where these figures come from
Counted from community flight tracking, checked against the CAA's monthly totals for Birmingham. Flight tracks: adsb.lol (ODbL 1.0); Weather at each airport: Iowa Environmental Mesonet; Ground heights: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right; Postcode positions: ONS National Statistics Postcode Lookup (OGL). Licence: Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0.