Planes overhead in CR8
Croydon and Sutton, London. 791 of its 803 postcodes measured, the ones in Croydon and Sutton, 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 CR8. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
- On a day it flies west (56% of days): up to 40 a day; of its 791 postcodes, 671 at 10 to 99, 120 under 10
- On a day it flies both ways (15% of days): up to 24 a day; of its 791 postcodes, 353 at 10 to 99, 438 under 10
- On a day it flies east (29% of days): up to 2 a day; of its 791 postcodes, 791 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CR8 1113 postcodes | 65 at 10 to 9948 under 10 | 32 at 10 to 9981 under 10 | 113 under 10 |
| CR8 2199 postcodes | 160 at 10 to 9939 under 10 | 136 at 10 to 9963 under 10 | 199 under 10 |
| CR8 3153 postcodes | 148 at 10 to 995 under 10 | 116 at 10 to 9937 under 10 | 153 under 10 |
| CR8 4132 postcodes | 104 at 10 to 9928 under 10 | 35 at 10 to 9997 under 10 | 132 under 10 |
| CR8 5177 postcodes | 177 at 10 to 99 | 17 at 10 to 99160 under 10 | 177 under 10 |
| CR8 917 postcodes | 17 at 10 to 99 | 17 at 10 to 99 | 17 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 CR8
CR5 CR2 SM6 CR0 SM5 SM2 SM1 CR7
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.