Planes overhead in B93
Solihull, West Midlands. 499 of its 515 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 B93. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
- On a day it flies west (38% of days): up to 13 a day; of its 499 postcodes, 20 at 10 to 99, 479 under 10
- On a day it flies both ways (24% of days): up to 56 a day; of its 499 postcodes, 6 at 10 to 99, 4 on an edge, 489 under 10
- On a day it flies east (38% of days): up to 90 a day; of its 499 postcodes, 10 at 10 to 99, 2 on an edge, 487 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| B93 0121 postcodes | 121 under 10 | 6 at 10 to 994 on an edge111 under 10 | 10 at 10 to 992 on an edge109 under 10 |
| B93 316 postcodes | 16 under 10 | 16 under 10 | 16 under 10 |
| B93 8203 postcodes | 20 at 10 to 99183 under 10 | 203 under 10 | 203 under 10 |
| B93 9159 postcodes | 159 under 10 | 159 under 10 | 159 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 B93
B91 B90 B92 B28 B26 B14 B37 B13
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.