Planes overhead in B92
Solihull and Birmingham, West Midlands. All 733 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 B92. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
- On a day it flies west (38% of days): up to 145 a day; of its 733 postcodes, 1 at 100+, 9 on an edge, 723 under 10
- On a day it flies both ways (24% of days): up to 142 a day; of its 733 postcodes, 3 at 100+, 12 at 10 to 99, 20 on an edge, 698 under 10
- On a day it flies east (38% of days): up to 128 a day; of its 733 postcodes, 10 at 100+, 12 at 10 to 99, 21 on an edge, 690 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| B92 0149 postcodes | 1 at 100+9 on an edge139 under 10 | 3 at 100+12 at 10 to 9920 on an edge114 under 10 | 10 at 100+12 at 10 to 9921 on an edge106 under 10 |
| B92 7198 postcodes | 198 under 10 | 198 under 10 | 198 under 10 |
| B92 8226 postcodes | 226 under 10 | 226 under 10 | 226 under 10 |
| B92 9160 postcodes | 160 under 10 | 160 under 10 | 160 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 B92
B91 B26 B28 B33 B37 B90 B11 B93
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.