Planes overhead in CV4
Coventry and Solihull, West Midlands. 676 of its 694 postcodes measured, the ones in Coventry and 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 CV4. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
- On a day it flies west (38% of days): up to 1 a day; of its 676 postcodes, 676 under 10
- On a day it flies both ways (24% of days): up to 15 a day; of its 676 postcodes, 9 at 10 to 99, 667 under 10
- On a day it flies east (38% of days): up to 30 a day; of its 676 postcodes, 14 at 10 to 99, 14 on an edge, 648 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CV4 07 postcodes | 7 under 10 | 7 under 10 | 7 under 10 |
| CV4 797 postcodes | 97 under 10 | 97 under 10 | 97 under 10 |
| CV4 8201 postcodes | 201 under 10 | 201 under 10 | 201 under 10 |
| CV4 9371 postcodes | 371 under 10 | 9 at 10 to 99362 under 10 | 14 at 10 to 9914 on an edge343 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 CV4
CV5 B93 B92 B91 B37 B26 B90 B33
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.