Planes overhead in LE14
Melton, Rushcliffe, Charnwood and Harborough, Leicester. All 688 of its postcodes measured, January to August 2026.
From East Midlands
Planes land and take off into the wind, so the weather decides which way East Midlands flies, and that decides how many pass over LE14. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
- On a day it flies west (58% of days): up to 37 a day; of its 688 postcodes, 77 at 10 to 99, 611 under 10
- On a day it flies both ways (20% of days): up to 20 a day; of its 688 postcodes, 55 at 10 to 99, 633 under 10
- On a day it flies east (22% of days): up to 1 a day; of its 688 postcodes, 688 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 west58% of days | Both ways20% of days | Flying east22% of days |
|---|---|---|---|
| LE14 2218 postcodes | 14 at 10 to 99204 under 10 | 13 at 10 to 99205 under 10 | 218 under 10 |
| LE14 3243 postcodes | 63 at 10 to 99180 under 10 | 42 at 10 to 99201 under 10 | 243 under 10 |
| LE14 4227 postcodes | 227 under 10 | 227 under 10 | 227 under 10 |
1 of its postcodes have a position ONS estimates, so their figures may be for a spot a few hundred metres away.
Over 22 of its postcodes, other flying passes too, from airfields, helicopters and airports we cannot check against official counts, so few planes from the airports we count does not mean a quiet sky there.
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 LE14
LE7 NG12 LE12 NG11 NG2 LE2 NG7 LE6
The councils
- Melton: noise and liveability score
- Rushcliffe: noise and liveability score
- Charnwood: noise and liveability score
- Harborough: noise and liveability score
Where these figures come from
Counted from community flight tracking, checked against the CAA's monthly totals for East Midlands. 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.