Planes overhead in B24
Birmingham, West Midlands. All 577 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 B24. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
- On a day it flies west (38% of days): up to 128 a day; of its 577 postcodes, 10 at 100+, 137 at 10 to 99, 14 on an edge, 416 under 10
- On a day it flies both ways (24% of days): up to 105 a day; of its 577 postcodes, 135 at 10 to 99, 107 on an edge, 335 under 10
- On a day it flies east (38% of days): up to 122 a day; of its 577 postcodes, 78 at 100+, 115 on an edge, 384 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| B24 0215 postcodes | 10 at 100+68 at 10 to 9914 on an edge123 under 10 | 63 at 10 to 9954 on an edge98 under 10 | 14 at 100+59 on an edge142 under 10 |
| B24 8152 postcodes | 152 under 10 | 152 under 10 | 152 under 10 |
| B24 9210 postcodes | 69 at 10 to 99141 under 10 | 72 at 10 to 9953 on an edge85 under 10 | 64 at 100+56 on an edge90 under 10 |
On an edge: the postcode is on the edge of a flight path, where a few metres decide whether a plane counts as overhead, and the fewest and the most within 100 m of it fall in different bands.
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 B24
B23 B35 B76 B36 B73 B34 B44 B33
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.