Planes overhead in E15

Newham, Waltham Forest, Hackney and Tower Hamlets, London. All 810 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 E15. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:

On a day it flies west (56% of days): up to 177 a day; of its 810 postcodes, 810 at 100+
On a day it flies both ways (15% of days): up to 102 a day; of its 810 postcodes, 1 at 100+, 809 at 10 to 99
On a day it flies east (29% of days): up to 1 a day; of its 810 postcodes, 810 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 E15, by postcode sector and the way Heathrow flies
Sector	Flying west56% of days	Both ways15% of days	Flying east29% of days
E15 1234 postcodes	234 at 100+	234 at 10 to 99	234 under 10
E15 2207 postcodes	207 at 100+	1 at 100+206 at 10 to 99	207 under 10
E15 3164 postcodes	164 at 100+	164 at 10 to 99	164 under 10
E15 4189 postcodes	189 at 100+	189 at 10 to 99	189 under 10
E15 916 postcodes	16 at 100+	16 at 10 to 99	16 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 E15. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:

On a day it flies west (47% of days): up to 62 a day; of its 810 postcodes, 164 at 10 to 99, 133 on an edge, 513 under 10
On a day it flies both ways (18% of days): up to 35 a day; of its 810 postcodes, 133 at 10 to 99, 102 on an edge, 575 under 10
On a day it flies east (35% of days): up to 1 a day; of its 810 postcodes, 810 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 E15, by postcode sector and the way London City flies
Sector	Flying west47% of days	Both ways18% of days	Flying east35% of days
E15 1234 postcodes	37 at 10 to 9956 on an edge141 under 10	30 at 10 to 9941 on an edge163 under 10	234 under 10
E15 2207 postcodes	127 at 10 to 9959 on an edge21 under 10	103 at 10 to 9961 on an edge43 under 10	207 under 10
E15 3164 postcodes	1 on an edge163 under 10	164 under 10	164 under 10
E15 4189 postcodes	1 on an edge188 under 10	189 under 10	189 under 10
E15 916 postcodes	16 on an edge	16 under 10	16 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.

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 E15

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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