Planes overhead in UB6
Ealing and Harrow, London. All 860 of its postcodes measured, January to August 2026.
From Heathrow
Planes land and take off into the wind, so the weather decides which way Heathrow flies, and that decides how many pass over UB6. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
- On a day it flies west (56% of days): up to 2 a day; of its 860 postcodes, 860 under 10
- On a day it flies both ways (15% of days): up to 24 a day; of its 860 postcodes, 6 at 10 to 99, 854 under 10
- On a day it flies east (29% of days): up to 79 a day; of its 860 postcodes, 148 at 10 to 99, 712 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 west56% of days | Both ways15% of days | Flying east29% of days |
|---|---|---|---|
| UB6 0228 postcodes | 228 under 10 | 228 under 10 | 21 at 10 to 99207 under 10 |
| UB6 7144 postcodes | 144 under 10 | 3 at 10 to 99141 under 10 | 95 at 10 to 9949 under 10 |
| UB6 8256 postcodes | 256 under 10 | 3 at 10 to 99253 under 10 | 32 at 10 to 99224 under 10 |
| UB6 9232 postcodes | 232 under 10 | 232 under 10 | 232 under 10 |
2 of its postcodes have a position ONS estimates, so their figures may be for a spot a few hundred metres away.
Over 133 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 UB6
The councils
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.