Planes overhead in B75
Birmingham, West Midlands. 622 of its 655 postcodes measured, the ones in Birmingham, 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 B75. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
- On a day it flies west (38% of days): up to 31 a day; of its 622 postcodes, 121 at 10 to 99, 3 on an edge, 498 under 10
- On a day it flies both ways (24% of days): up to 19 a day; of its 622 postcodes, 91 at 10 to 99, 531 under 10
- On a day it flies east (38% of days): up to 7 a day; of its 622 postcodes, 622 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| B75 5210 postcodes | 2 at 10 to 99208 under 10 | 2 at 10 to 99208 under 10 | 210 under 10 |
| B75 6190 postcodes | 8 at 10 to 99182 under 10 | 6 at 10 to 99184 under 10 | 190 under 10 |
| B75 7222 postcodes | 111 at 10 to 993 on an edge108 under 10 | 83 at 10 to 99139 under 10 | 222 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 B75
B73 B74 B76 B44 B23 B24 B35 WS9
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.