Planes overhead in B90
Solihull, West Midlands. 1,047 of its 1,084 postcodes measured, the ones in Solihull, 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 B90. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
- On a day it flies west (38% of days): up to 21 a day; of its 1,047 postcodes, 881 at 10 to 99, 166 under 10
- On a day it flies both ways (24% of days): up to 12 a day; of its 1,047 postcodes, 402 at 10 to 99, 645 under 10
- On a day it flies east (38% of days): up to 7 a day; of its 1,047 postcodes, 1,047 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| B90 1243 postcodes | 225 at 10 to 9918 under 10 | 83 at 10 to 99160 under 10 | 243 under 10 |
| B90 2206 postcodes | 206 at 10 to 99 | 164 at 10 to 9942 under 10 | 206 under 10 |
| B90 3222 postcodes | 119 at 10 to 99103 under 10 | 222 under 10 | 222 under 10 |
| B90 4310 postcodes | 265 at 10 to 9945 under 10 | 102 at 10 to 99208 under 10 | 310 under 10 |
| B90 856 postcodes | 56 at 10 to 99 | 53 at 10 to 993 under 10 | 56 under 10 |
| B90 910 postcodes | 10 at 10 to 99 | 10 under 10 | 10 under 10 |
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 B90
B91 B28 B14 B92 B13 B93 B11 B26
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.