Planes overhead in B76
Birmingham, West Midlands. 435 of its 529 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 B76. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
- On a day it flies west (38% of days): up to 130 a day; of its 435 postcodes, 51 at 100+, 216 at 10 to 99, 34 on an edge, 134 under 10
- On a day it flies both ways (24% of days): up to 60 a day; of its 435 postcodes, 240 at 10 to 99, 8 on an edge, 187 under 10
- On a day it flies east (38% of days): up to 3 a day; of its 435 postcodes, 435 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| B76 1269 postcodes | 28 at 100+121 at 10 to 9912 on an edge108 under 10 | 141 at 10 to 997 on an edge121 under 10 | 269 under 10 |
| B76 2120 postcodes | 1 at 100+73 at 10 to 9922 on an edge24 under 10 | 56 at 10 to 9964 under 10 | 120 under 10 |
| B76 946 postcodes | 22 at 100+22 at 10 to 992 under 10 | 43 at 10 to 991 on an edge2 under 10 | 46 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 B76
B35 B24 B73 B75 B36 B23 B34 B44
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.