Planes overhead in B33
Birmingham, West Midlands. All 690 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 B33. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
- On a day it flies west (38% of days): up to 147 a day; of its 690 postcodes, 117 at 100+, 205 on an edge, 368 under 10
- On a day it flies both ways (24% of days): up to 138 a day; of its 690 postcodes, 3 at 100+, 45 at 10 to 99, 249 on an edge, 393 under 10
- On a day it flies east (38% of days): up to 123 a day; of its 690 postcodes, 3 at 100+, 114 on an edge, 573 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| B33 0240 postcodes | 45 at 100+96 on an edge99 under 10 | 12 at 10 to 99118 on an edge110 under 10 | 50 on an edge190 under 10 |
| B33 310 postcodes | 10 at 100+ | 10 on an edge | 10 on an edge |
| B33 8212 postcodes | 18 on an edge194 under 10 | 12 on an edge200 under 10 | 212 under 10 |
| B33 9228 postcodes | 62 at 100+91 on an edge75 under 10 | 3 at 100+33 at 10 to 99109 on an edge83 under 10 | 3 at 100+54 on an edge171 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 B33
B34 B26 B36 B37 B35 B92 B24 B11
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.