Planes overhead in RM10
Barking and Dagenham, London. All 583 of its postcodes measured, January to August 2026.
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 RM10. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
- On a day it flies west (47% of days): up to 1 a day; of its 583 postcodes, 583 under 10
- On a day it flies both ways (18% of days): up to 23 a day; of its 583 postcodes, 389 at 10 to 99, 69 on an edge, 125 under 10
- On a day it flies east (35% of days): up to 46 a day; of its 583 postcodes, 443 at 10 to 99, 68 on an edge, 72 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 west47% of days | Both ways18% of days | Flying east35% of days |
|---|---|---|---|
| RM10 7198 postcodes | 198 under 10 | 104 at 10 to 9931 on an edge63 under 10 | 124 at 10 to 9932 on an edge42 under 10 |
| RM10 8213 postcodes | 213 under 10 | 170 at 10 to 9916 on an edge27 under 10 | 186 at 10 to 9915 on an edge12 under 10 |
| RM10 9172 postcodes | 172 under 10 | 115 at 10 to 9922 on an edge35 under 10 | 133 at 10 to 9921 on an edge18 under 10 |
Also counted here: Heathrow, at most 6 a day over any of its postcodes.
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.
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 RM10
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The councils
Where these figures come from
Counted from community flight tracking, checked against the CAA's monthly totals for 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.