Planes overhead in B36
Solihull and Birmingham, West Midlands. All 574 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 B36. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
- On a day it flies west (38% of days): up to 145 a day; of its 574 postcodes, 57 at 100+, 90 at 10 to 99, 40 on an edge, 387 under 10
- On a day it flies both ways (24% of days): up to 137 a day; of its 574 postcodes, 34 at 100+, 59 at 10 to 99, 67 on an edge, 414 under 10
- On a day it flies east (38% of days): up to 123 a day; of its 574 postcodes, 40 at 100+, 56 on an edge, 478 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| B36 0203 postcodes | 1 at 100+1 on an edge201 under 10 | 1 at 10 to 99202 under 10 | 203 under 10 |
| B36 8197 postcodes | 51 at 100+50 at 10 to 9923 on an edge73 under 10 | 34 at 100+27 at 10 to 9950 on an edge86 under 10 | 40 at 100+56 on an edge101 under 10 |
| B36 9174 postcodes | 5 at 100+40 at 10 to 9916 on an edge113 under 10 | 31 at 10 to 9917 on an edge126 under 10 | 174 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 B36
B34 B35 B33 B24 B37 B76 B26 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.