Planes overhead in BR5
Bromley, London. All 933 of its postcodes measured, January to August 2026.
From Heathrow
Planes land and take off into the wind, so the weather decides which way Heathrow flies, and that decides how many pass over BR5. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
- On a day it flies west (56% of days): up to 18 a day; of its 933 postcodes, 92 at 10 to 99, 841 under 10
- On a day it flies both ways (15% of days): up to 20 a day; of its 933 postcodes, 693 at 10 to 99, 240 under 10
- On a day it flies east (29% of days): up to 34 a day; of its 933 postcodes, 931 at 10 to 99, 2 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 west56% of days | Both ways15% of days | Flying east29% of days |
|---|---|---|---|
| BR5 1218 postcodes | 89 at 10 to 99129 under 10 | 213 at 10 to 995 under 10 | 218 at 10 to 99 |
| BR5 2259 postcodes | 3 at 10 to 99256 under 10 | 258 at 10 to 991 under 10 | 259 at 10 to 99 |
| BR5 3250 postcodes | 250 under 10 | 193 at 10 to 9957 under 10 | 250 at 10 to 99 |
| BR5 4206 postcodes | 206 under 10 | 29 at 10 to 99177 under 10 | 204 at 10 to 992 under 10 |
Over 115 of its postcodes, other flying passes too, from airfields, helicopters and airports we cannot check against official counts, so few planes from the airports we count does not mean a quiet sky there.
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 BR5
BR6 BR7 DA14 DA15 BR2 BR1 DA5 SE9
The councils
Where these figures come from
Counted from community flight tracking, checked against the CAA's monthly totals for Heathrow. 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.