Planes overhead in E1

Tower Hamlets, City of London and Hackney, London. All 1,516 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 E1. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:

On a day it flies west (56% of days): up to 104 a day; of its 1,516 postcodes, 18 at 100+, 1,498 at 10 to 99
On a day it flies both ways (15% of days): up to 66 a day; of its 1,516 postcodes, 1,516 at 10 to 99
On a day it flies east (29% of days): up to 1 a day; of its 1,516 postcodes, 1,516 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.

Planes overhead from Heathrow in E1, by postcode sector and the way Heathrow flies
Sector	Flying west56% of days	Both ways15% of days	Flying east29% of days
E1 0182 postcodes	16 at 100+166 at 10 to 99	182 at 10 to 99	182 under 10
E1 1157 postcodes	157 at 10 to 99	157 at 10 to 99	157 under 10
E1 2174 postcodes	174 at 10 to 99	174 at 10 to 99	174 under 10
E1 3140 postcodes	140 at 10 to 99	140 at 10 to 99	140 under 10
E1 4254 postcodes	2 at 100+252 at 10 to 99	254 at 10 to 99	254 under 10
E1 5176 postcodes	176 at 10 to 99	176 at 10 to 99	176 under 10
E1 6147 postcodes	147 at 10 to 99	147 at 10 to 99	147 under 10
E1 7101 postcodes	101 at 10 to 99	101 at 10 to 99	101 under 10
E1 8185 postcodes	185 at 10 to 99	185 at 10 to 99	185 under 10

From London City

Planes land and take off into the wind, so the weather decides which way London City flies, and that decides how many pass over E1. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:

On a day it flies west (47% of days): up to 15 a day; of its 1,516 postcodes, 1 at 10 to 99, 2 on an edge, 1,513 under 10
On a day it flies both ways (18% of days): up to 29 a day; of its 1,516 postcodes, 320 at 10 to 99, 216 on an edge, 980 under 10
On a day it flies east (35% of days): up to 64 a day; of its 1,516 postcodes, 325 at 10 to 99, 224 on an edge, 967 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.

Planes overhead from London City in E1, by postcode sector and the way London City flies
Sector	Flying west47% of days	Both ways18% of days	Flying east35% of days
E1 0182 postcodes	182 under 10	82 at 10 to 9965 on an edge35 under 10	87 at 10 to 9963 on an edge32 under 10
E1 1157 postcodes	157 under 10	44 at 10 to 9946 on an edge67 under 10	44 at 10 to 9946 on an edge67 under 10
E1 2174 postcodes	174 under 10	50 at 10 to 9948 on an edge76 under 10	50 at 10 to 9948 on an edge76 under 10
E1 3140 postcodes	140 under 10	6 on an edge134 under 10	6 on an edge134 under 10
E1 4254 postcodes	1 at 10 to 992 on an edge251 under 10	254 under 10	254 under 10
E1 5176 postcodes	176 under 10	176 under 10	176 under 10
E1 6147 postcodes	147 under 10	1 on an edge146 under 10	1 on an edge146 under 10
E1 7101 postcodes	101 under 10	17 on an edge84 under 10	27 on an edge74 under 10
E1 8185 postcodes	185 under 10	144 at 10 to 9933 on an edge8 under 10	144 at 10 to 9933 on an edge8 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.

3 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 E1

E1W EC3N E2 EC3A EC3M EC3R EC2N EC2M

The councils

Where these figures come from

Counted from community flight tracking, checked against the CAA's monthly totals for Heathrow and London City. 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.

How the planes are counted