Planes overhead in B37
Solihull and Birmingham, West Midlands. All 729 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 B37. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
- On a day it flies west (38% of days): up to 15 a day; of its 729 postcodes, 2 on an edge, 727 under 10
- On a day it flies both ways (24% of days): up to 1 a day; of its 729 postcodes, 729 under 10
- On a day it flies east (38% of days): under 1 a day at all 729 of its postcodes
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| B37 5208 postcodes | 208 under 10 | 208 under 10 | 208 under 10 |
| B37 6214 postcodes | 214 under 10 | 214 under 10 | 214 under 10 |
| B37 7298 postcodes | 2 on an edge296 under 10 | 298 under 10 | 298 under 10 |
| B37 99 postcodes | 9 under 10 | 9 under 10 | 9 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.
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 B37
B33 B34 B26 B36 B92 B35 B24 B91
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.