Planes overhead in B44
Birmingham, West Midlands. All 638 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 B44. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
- On a day it flies west (38% of days): up to 3 a day; of its 638 postcodes, 638 under 10
- On a day it flies both ways (24% of days): up to 70 a day; of its 638 postcodes, 8 on an edge, 630 under 10
- On a day it flies east (38% of days): up to 120 a day; of its 638 postcodes, 10 on an edge, 628 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| B44 0237 postcodes | 237 under 10 | 8 on an edge229 under 10 | 10 on an edge227 under 10 |
| B44 8201 postcodes | 201 under 10 | 201 under 10 | 201 under 10 |
| B44 9200 postcodes | 200 under 10 | 200 under 10 | 200 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 B44
B23 B73 B20 B74 B24 WS5 B19 B21
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.