Planes overhead in B34
Birmingham, West Midlands. All 327 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 B34. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
- On a day it flies west (38% of days): up to 146 a day; of its 327 postcodes, 81 at 100+, 22 at 10 to 99, 62 on an edge, 162 under 10
- On a day it flies both ways (24% of days): up to 137 a day; of its 327 postcodes, 18 at 100+, 58 at 10 to 99, 75 on an edge, 176 under 10
- On a day it flies east (38% of days): up to 123 a day; of its 327 postcodes, 11 at 100+, 51 on an edge, 265 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| B34 6176 postcodes | 81 at 100+22 at 10 to 9955 on an edge18 under 10 | 18 at 100+58 at 10 to 9971 on an edge29 under 10 | 11 at 100+51 on an edge114 under 10 |
| B34 7151 postcodes | 7 on an edge144 under 10 | 4 on an edge147 under 10 | 151 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 B34
B36 B33 B35 B37 B26 B24 B76 B23
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.