Planes overhead in NG12
Rushcliffe and City of Nottingham, Nottingham. All 1,026 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 NG12. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
- On a day it flies west (58% of days): up to 73 a day; of its 1,026 postcodes, 79 at 10 to 99, 4 on an edge, 943 under 10
- On a day it flies both ways (20% of days): up to 39 a day; of its 1,026 postcodes, 10 at 10 to 99, 5 on an edge, 1,011 under 10
- On a day it flies east (22% of days): up to 2 a day; of its 1,026 postcodes, 1,026 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NG12 180 postcodes | 80 under 10 | 80 under 10 | 80 under 10 |
| NG12 2196 postcodes | 196 under 10 | 196 under 10 | 196 under 10 |
| NG12 3302 postcodes | 302 under 10 | 302 under 10 | 302 under 10 |
| NG12 4184 postcodes | 53 at 10 to 99131 under 10 | 184 under 10 | 184 under 10 |
| NG12 5264 postcodes | 26 at 10 to 994 on an edge234 under 10 | 10 at 10 to 995 on an edge249 under 10 | 264 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.
1 of its postcodes have a position ONS estimates, so their figures may be for a spot a few hundred metres away.
Over 57 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 NG12
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The councils
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.