Planes over Brent today
For Heathrow's expansion consultation, open until 22 December 2026.
Whatever your view, these are the figures for Brent now: the planes from Heathrow counted over each of its postcode districts, and the borough's noise, air and flood figures from official data. They are today's flights on today's routes, not those of a third runway. Sky Score takes no side in the consultation.
Heathrow's consultation page: how to respond, and Heathrow's own documents.
Planes from Heathrow, district by district
Planes land and take off into the wind, so the weather decides which way Heathrow flies, and that decides how many pass over each place. Counted over each postcode, January to August 2026.
Each cell gives the most planes over any one postcode of the district on that kind of day, then counts the district's postcodes by how many pass over them a day: 100 or more, 10 to 99, or under 10.
| District | Flying west56% of days | Both ways15% of days | Flying east29% of days |
|---|---|---|---|
| HA0860 postcodes | up to 5 a day860 under 10 | up to 56 a day379 at 10 to 99481 under 10 | up to 145 a day754 at 10 to 996 on an edge100 under 10 |
| HA31,262 postcodes | up to 15 a day294 at 10 to 99968 under 10 | up to 21 a day1,193 at 10 to 9969 under 10 | up to 27 a day1,033 at 10 to 99229 under 10 |
| HA91,006 postcodes | up to 11 a day23 at 10 to 99983 under 10 | up to 22 a day959 at 10 to 9947 under 10 | up to 57 a day1,006 at 10 to 99 |
| NW21,334 postcodes | up to 39 a day637 at 10 to 99697 under 10 | up to 55 a day1,334 at 10 to 99 | up to 116 a day191 at 100+1,143 at 10 to 99 |
| NW61,289 postcodes | up to 11 a day8 at 10 to 991,281 under 10 | up to 52 a day1,212 at 10 to 9977 under 10 | up to 105 a day9 at 100+1,278 at 10 to 992 under 10 |
| NW91,483 postcodes | up to 44 a day1,468 at 10 to 9915 under 10 | up to 55 a day1,483 at 10 to 99 | up to 56 a day1,483 at 10 to 99 |
| NW101,849 postcodes | up to 10 a day4 at 10 to 991,845 under 10 | up to 78 a day1,841 at 10 to 998 on an edge | up to 181 a day1,058 at 100+790 at 10 to 991 on an edge |
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.
Each district's own page splits it by postcode sector and counts every airport over it.
Noise, air and flood in Brent
- Aircraft noise band
- Low-ModerateEstimated from the distance to the airport and its routes, scaled by the size of its DEFRA noise map
- Road noise
- ModerateDEFRA road Lden, share of postcodes over WHO 53 dB
- Air quality
- ModerateDEFRA background maps against WHO 2021
- Flood risk
- LowEnvironment Agency, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea, allowing for defences
Brent: every figure we publish, with its score
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.
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.
Aviation noise context: DEFRA strategic noise mapping, Open Government Licence v3.0
Flight routes: UK Aeronautical Information Publication (NATS), derived by Sky Score for the aircraft noise estimate; public but not openly licensed, and not for navigation
Road noise: DEFRA Strategic Noise Mapping Round 4 road Lden, Open Government Licence v3.0
Air quality: DEFRA background pollution maps (PCM), Open Government Licence v3.0
Flood risk: Environment Agency Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea, Open Government Licence v3.0