Planes overhead in B14
Birmingham and Solihull, West Midlands. 759 of its 763 postcodes measured, the ones in Birmingham and Solihull (7 PO boxes and other large-user postcodes left out), January to August 2026.
From Birmingham
Planes land and take off into the wind, so the weather decides which way Birmingham flies, and that decides how many pass over B14. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 38% of days
Up to 13
a day
Of its 759 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 128
- under 10
- 631
On a day it flies both ways, 24% of days
Up to 12
a day
Of its 759 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 172
- under 10
- 587
On a day it flies east, 38% of days
Up to 14
a day
Of its 759 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 139
- under 10
- 620
Each sector's bar splits its postcodes by how many planes pass over them a day; the figure above it counts those in the busiest band the sector reaches. The list above gives the whole district's counts.
| Sector | Flying west38% of days | Both ways24% of days | Flying east38% of days |
|---|---|---|---|
| B14 4204 postcodes | 128 at 10 to 99 | 70 at 10 to 99 | 204 under 10 |
| B14 5215 postcodes | 215 under 10 | 215 under 10 | 215 under 10 |
| B14 6183 postcodes | 183 under 10 | 183 under 10 | 1 at 10 to 99 |
| B14 7157 postcodes | 157 under 10 | 102 at 10 to 99 | 138 at 10 to 99 |
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. PO boxes and other postcodes for organisations that receive a lot of post are left out: they sit at a delivery office or a business, not at homes.
Near B14
B13 B30 B28 B29 B11 B12 B90 B5
The councils
Where these figures come from
Counted from community flight tracking, checked against the CAA's monthly totals for Birmingham. 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.