Planes over Ealing today
For Heathrow's expansion consultation, open until 22 December 2026.
Whatever your view, these are the figures for Ealing 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| UB1615 postcodes | up to 1 a day615 under 10 | up to 50 a day4 at 10 to 995 on an edge606 under 10 | up to 136 a day1 at 100+2 at 10 to 9910 on an edge602 under 10 |
| UB2532 postcodes | up to 2 a day532 under 10 | up to 80 a day56 at 10 to 9967 on an edge409 under 10 | up to 188 a day32 at 100+10 at 10 to 99128 on an edge362 under 10 |
| UB6860 postcodes | up to 2 a day860 under 10 | up to 24 a day6 at 10 to 99854 under 10 | up to 79 a day148 at 10 to 99712 under 10 |
| W31,158 postcodes | up to 2 a day1,158 under 10 | up to 77 a day228 at 10 to 9943 on an edge887 under 10 | up to 175 a day187 at 100+64 at 10 to 9984 on an edge823 under 10 |
| W41,024 postcodes | up to 310 a day97 at 100+44 on an edge883 under 10 | up to 168 a day97 at 100+43 on an edge884 under 10 | up to 4 a day1,024 under 10 |
| W51,007 postcodes | up to 2 a day1,007 under 10 | up to 81 a day650 at 10 to 9995 on an edge262 under 10 | up to 188 a day579 at 100+34 at 10 to 99156 on an edge238 under 10 |
| W7510 postcodes | up to 2 a day510 under 10 | up to 81 a day321 at 10 to 9950 on an edge139 under 10 | up to 188 a day286 at 100+27 at 10 to 9992 on an edge105 under 10 |
| W13595 postcodes | up to 2 a day595 under 10 | up to 81 a day526 at 10 to 9939 on an edge30 under 10 | up to 188 a day480 at 100+23 at 10 to 9967 on an edge25 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.
Each district's own page splits it by postcode sector and counts every airport over it.
Noise, air and flood in Ealing
- Aircraft noise band
- HighEstimated 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
Ealing: 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