Planes overhead in UB7
Hillingdon, London. All 632 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 UB7. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
- On a day it flies west (56% of days): up to 310 a day; of its 632 postcodes, 2 at 100+, 13 on an edge, 617 under 10
- On a day it flies both ways (15% of days): up to 189 a day; of its 632 postcodes, 1 at 100+, 13 on an edge, 618 under 10
- On a day it flies east (29% of days): up to 2 a day; of its 632 postcodes, 632 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| UB7 0110 postcodes | 2 at 100+13 on an edge95 under 10 | 1 at 100+13 on an edge96 under 10 | 110 under 10 |
| UB7 7207 postcodes | 207 under 10 | 207 under 10 | 207 under 10 |
| UB7 8139 postcodes | 139 under 10 | 139 under 10 | 139 under 10 |
| UB7 9176 postcodes | 176 under 10 | 176 under 10 | 176 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.
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 UB7
TW6 TW5 UB2 TW14 UB1 TW4 TW3 HA4
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.